Lead: The rupee’s slip past 90 a dollar signals a deeper churn — tariffs and FPI exits leaving investors scan for the next shock. Spotlight: Sunali Khatun was deported while pregnant, pushed across borders, jailed and still pleading to return home so her child can be born Indian. Tech: OpenAI seeks TCS partnership, 500 MW of HyperVault compute, and a push to co-build agentic enterprise AI. Sports: Aiden Markram’s 110 and Proteas' chase of 359, overshadowed Indian centuries from Kohli and Gaikwad. Entertainment: Dhurandhar seals 65,000 Day-1 tickets so far — with hopes pinned on a last-minute surge.

Australian born, British broadcaster Brian Hayes who was a pioneer of talkback and phone in radio in the UK on Capital Radio, the BBC and LBC, has died at the age of 87.

Sanal Potti, senior journalist, former television presenter, and PR manager at SCMS College, passed away on Tuesday, December 2, following health-related issues. He was 55.

India Today is hosting a Moscow Roundtable prior to President Putin’s upcoming visit to India.

Mrig Sight Media has bagged the public relations and digital marketing mandate for Durakraft Extrusions Pvt. Ltd.

Adele Ferguson and Chris Gillett have won the 2025 Gold Walkley, Australian journalism’s highest honour for a series of stories on 7.30, Four Corners and ABC online. The Walkley Judging Board unanimously selected the pair’s multi-month multi-platform investigation into the systemic failures in childcare as the story of the year. Ferguson and Gillett won three Walkley categories: TV/Video: Current Affairs Short, TV/Video: Current Affairs Long, and All Media: Investigative Journalism (the latter two with colleagues Ben Butler and Lara Sonnenschein). In addition, they were finalists in the All Media: Coverage of a Major Event category and Scoop of the Year.

Business matters, 'rates fears', overseas floods, housing black hole, cigarette profits up in smoke, home truths, and cure for the ages, all this and more in today's news roundup. Pictures and stories by David Rowe, Anthony Macdonald, Lauren Sams, Angela Macdonald-Smith, Michael Smith, Nick Lenaghan, and Carrie LaFrenz, James Thomson, Robyn Riley, Broede Carmody, Nick McKenzie and Cameron Houston, James O'Doherty, John Kehoe, Ben Packham, Elizabeth Pike and Joe Kelly, Amanda Hodge and Dean Septiari, Geoff Chambers, and Matthew Cranston.

A Parliamentary panel has recommended stronger measures to tackle the growing menace of deepfakes and misinformation, including cancelling the accreditation of journalists or creators found guilty of publishing or telecasting fake news. The proposal was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, December 2, as part of the report Review of Mechanism to Curb Fake News.

In a moving act of compassion, two journalists in Odisha’s Cuttack district stepped in to perform the final rites of an elderly woman after no villagers came forward to cremate her.

The Bombay High Court will begin final hearings in the appeals filed by gangster Chhota Rajan and eight others from January 3, 2026, as they challenge their conviction in the 2011 murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey (J Dey).

Lead: Centre’s order forcing phone makers to preload the Sanchar Saathi app triggered political heat with Opposition calling it intrusive even as the DoT insisted it fights fraud. Spotlight: Stray dogs guarded an abandoned newborn through the night in Nabadwip, a moment captured by TOI and ht'S moving resident accounts. Tech: Amar Subramanya named Apple’s new AI chief, signalling a fierce talent war and Siri’s long-overdue reboot. Sports: The Hindu detailed India’s 5–0 demolition of Switzerland to storm into the Hockey World Cup quarters. Entertainment: CBFC gives clean chit for Dhurandhar, ruling it bears no link to Major Mohit Sharma.

OG Media 360 has announced its acquisition of Times of Business, a rapidly growing Instagram-first business news platform.

NDTV has marked a major milestone in its digital journey, further cementing its place in an era where audiences increasingly turn to online platforms for news.

InnovationAus will be releasing up to five podcasts a week in 2026, as announced via its Activate webinar held Tuesday afternoon.

Website @AuManufacturing news and media which first appeared in 2018, and grew out of networking group, the Australian Manufacturing Forum, has closed.