Here are the biggest stories of Friday, October 9, 2026, in one quick briefing.

The Supreme Court ordered free legal aid for voters excluded from Bihar’s electoral rolls after the Special Intensive Revision, asking legal services authorities to help the roughly 3.66 lakh affected citizens file appeals. The next hearing is on October 16, with Bihar voting on November 6 and 11.

The Election Commission’s special enrolment drive drew around eight lakh Form-6 applications in 20 states within a week, most from first-time voters missed during the revision.

In business, TCS kicked off earnings season with its Q2 results, while Jio Platforms confirmed its 36,700-crore-rupee IPO opens October 21. AI startups raised a record 61 billion dollars in the third quarter.

On the world stage, UN chief Antonio Guterres met Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, with Kashmir and the Indus Waters Treaty dominating talks.

In science, the ISRO-NASA NISAR satellite beamed back its first radar images of Earth, and astronomers detected a rare heavy form of alcohol in deep space for the first time.