Entity

Diwali

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 6 coverage verticals, including India South Asia, other coverage and Alt Fiber.

As of 11 Nov 2026Last evidence 11 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Mumbai bans rockets and aerial firecrackers until November 25 after multiple fires during Diwali

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Thick smog shrouds New Delhi after Diwali firecrackers add to seasonal pollution

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Punjab logs 1,152 farm fires on Diwali, sharpest single-day spike this season

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • PM Modi Celebrates Diwali with CRPF Personnel in Bastar; Warns of ‘Dimagi Naxals’ and Calls for Continued Vigilance

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Sheikh Mohamed shares greeting for those celebrating Diwali in UAE and globally

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving Diwali

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 39 mentions on 11 Nov 2026, against 12 on 21 Oct 2026 (+225%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 10 Nov 2026 (4 changes recorded since 5 Nov 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 10 Nov 2026.

How well we know this

670 documents · 50 publishers · 6% say something specific about it · last evidence 11 Nov 2026

  • Gap: 6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
  • Gap: 2 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Diwali

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

IndiaDelhiModiMumbaiGoldPunjabRahul GandhiDhanteras
  • India · 480 shared documents
  • Delhi · 262 shared documents
  • Modi · 152 shared documents
  • India Congress · 129 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Mumbai · 88 shared documents
  • Uttar Pradesh · 84 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Gold · 81 shared documents
  • Punjab · 71 shared documents
  • Rahul Gandhi · 70 shared documents
  • Dhanteras · 68 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 39 mentions on 11 Nov 2026 with 12 on 21 Oct 2026 (+225%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +875% from 6 Oct 2026 to 11 Nov 2026, between 4 and 82 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Diwali, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/875b43bf35e532e92041544a returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name diwali.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Diwali

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Mumbai bans rockets and aerial firecrackers until November 25 after multiple fires during Diwali

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Thick smog shrouds New Delhi after Diwali firecrackers add to seasonal pollution

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Punjab logs 1,152 farm fires on Diwali, sharpest single-day spike this season

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • PM Modi Celebrates Diwali with CRPF Personnel in Bastar; Warns of ‘Dimagi Naxals’ and Calls for Continued Vigilance

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    single source

  • Sheikh Mohamed shares greeting for those celebrating Diwali in UAE and globally

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • 'Heading to Bastar': PM Modi to celebrate Diwali with security forces, recalls region’s journey from Naxalism to development

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Kharge's 'Khushiyon Ki Eid' Diwali Wish Sparks Row; BJP Alleges Congress Of Appeasement Politics

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Sensex opens 300 points up in Diwali Muhurat trading session, Nifty rises by 70 points

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • PM Modi extends Diwali greetings, says he will continue tradition of celebrating festival with soldiers

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Delhi's air quality worsens to brink of 'severe' category ahead of Diwali, 30 stations record severe AQI

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • ODOP: The new economics of Diwali

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • India orders Delhi schools to offer online classes as air quality worsens ahead of Diwali

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

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Diwali

Entity.

Evidence
670 documents · 50 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 4 Sept 2026, last seen 11 Nov 2026
Measured
6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
11 Nov 2026
22 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Diwali, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

1 more headline counted but not shown: no source link on file

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 10 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 8 Nov 2026

  • 10 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 8 Nov 2026

  • 8 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 3 Nov 2026

  • 8 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 3 Nov 2026

4 changes recorded since 5 Nov 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 11 Nov 2026.