Three petrol pump owners have claimed that the ethanol's hygroscopic nature (water affinity) is causing water contamination in E20 fuel during the monsoon season, The Hindu reported. The same issues also reportedly arise in coastal areas due to the humid environment as the current underground storage tanks aren't designed for ethanol blends, they alleged.

Siya Goyal's father, Praveen Goyal, denied reports that the FDA had sealed his dry-fruit and spice shop. He said samples were collected on July 14, and he was asked to close his shop till a licence, for which he applied, arrives. He also said he's been stressed, adding that "it feels as though I am being punished instead".

The Centre has identified critical imports worth $51 billion to swap them with domestic, homegrown products, Reuters reported, citing government sources. India imported $775 billion worth of goods from March 2025 to 2026, out of which imports worth $398 billion can be potentially replaced domestically, an internal government analysis showed. Products range from textile to solar panel industries.

After two Indian airports featured among the World's Most Beautiful Airports 2026 by Prix Versailles, Israeli Ambassador to India Reuven Azar said, "Hope to see Indian companies building an airport in Israel...soon!" Guwahati's Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport and Navi Mumbai International Airport made it to the list. Azar was responding to the post of the Indian Embassy in Israel.

Sensex settled 1 point higher at 77,186.87 to end in the green on Thursday, while Nifty ended 5.75 points lower at 24,072.75. This comes as profit booking dragged the indices down from the day's highs, weak global cues and the escalating US-Iran war. "A decisive move above 24,200 [for Nifty] could trigger fresh momentum towards 24,300–24,400," an expert said.

Delhi High Court cancelled the trademark registration of 'ZORA' used by a Sadar Bazar-based fabric trader after Zara's owner challenged it. The trader argued 'ZORA' was a Hindu name meaning 'dawn' and was adopted in good faith. The court held 'ZORA' and 'ZARA' were visually similar, and the one-vowel distinction wouldn't register with persons of "average intelligence and imperfect recollection".

RBI has announced a premature redemption price of ₹14,199 per unit for the Sovereign Gold Bond 2019-20 Series II, which is due on Thursday. The bond was issued at ₹3,393 per gram for online buyers and ₹3,443 per gram for offline buyers. This means investors will make a profit of up to 318.5% on this series.

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's startup Thinking Machines Lab on Wednesday unveiled its first AI model named Inkling. The startup said the model can understand text, code, audio, and images, and it is open-weight, enabling developers to download and modify it. The model has a total of 975 billion parameters and 41 billion active parameters for a given task.

OpenAI has introduced the Codex Micro keyboard to manage its agentic coding platform Codex, in partnership with Work Louder. The keyboard enables users to customise command keys to act as shortcuts for Codex actions and has light-up "Agent Keys" which show agent status and a joystick to trigger workflows. Codex Micro also has a dial to adjust agent's reasoning level.

AI music startup Suno allegedly scraped songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Genius, and Deezer, among other stock music libraries, hackers who breached the firm claimed. The hacker group claimed that source code from 2023 and 2024 contained scraping instructions for songs. The hackers further claimed that Suno identified over 4.2 lakh podcasts for potential data scraping using Podcast Index.