Indian #Railways has begun Ahmedabad-Mumbai trials of the first Vande Bharat freight train, a 16-coach ICF EMU built to haul 264 tonnes at up to 160 kmph. Earlier Kota-Rohal Khurd trials reached 130 kmph under RDSO. Average operating speed is put at 80–90 kmph versus 60–70 kmph for existing cargo trains; commercial service has not started.

https://swarajyamag.com/amp/story/infrastructure%2Findian-railways-begins-ahmedabad-mumbai-trials-of-first-vande-bharat-freight-train-targets-faster-cargo-movement

Odisha handed over land documents for 7,000 acres (4,000 in Sundargarh, 3,000 in Rayagada) for the $11.5 billion Adani-IRH aluminium JV, 67 days after the July 2 MoU. The 50:50 complex includes a 4 mtpa alumina refinery, 2 mtpa smelter, 1 mtpa downstream park and 4,000 MW captive power. Phase 1 is ₹66,000 crore and Phase 2 ₹42,000 crore. #MakeInIndia

https://www.business-standard.com/amp/industry/news/odisha-hands-over-land-for-11-5-bn-adani-irh-aluminium-complex-in-70-days-126091101326_1.html

New Delhi #BRICS Summit Outcome

- BRICS Joint statement
- PM Modi's Global South Focus
- Strong stance on Terror
- Call for UN,financial bodies reform
- Opposition to unilateral tariffs
- Push for local-currency trade
- India's proposal for seafarer safety

#Geopolitics

🚨 Coimbatore-based GOAT Robotics has just unveiled GT-XP, an autonomous pallet-handling robot capable of moving payloads of up to 5 tonnes.

It uses SLAM navigation, LiDAR, an IMU, wheel encoders and a depth camera to autonomously pick, move and place pallets. #Robotics

🇮🇳 'Unacceptable': India Condemns Attack On Commercial Vessel Off Oman, 13 Indians Rescued

▶️No group or nation has officially claimed responsibility for the attack on the Panama flagged oil tanker MT El Gaia. On September 13, 2026, the commercial oil products tanker MT El Gaia came under attack off the coast of Oman.


#InternationalNews #foreignaffairs

आप सभी को गणेश चतुर्थी की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं।

India gets a 1.64 mt annual steel TRQ to the EU: 946,616 t MFN plus 694,853 t FTA. Largest slice is 5.09 lakh t hot-rolled sheets and strips. India now ships ~4 mt steel a year to the EU; pact is slated for Q1 next year. #Exports

Vedanta Group has invested over ₹21,000 crore through FY26 in projects covering metal production and capacity expansion across aluminium, zinc, value-added alloys, copper, steel, nickel and ferrochrome.

Vedanta said it has secured 10 critical mineral blocks covering copper, nickel-chromium-PGE, tungsten, graphite, vanadium, rare earth elements and potash. Exploration is underway across five of these blocks. #MakeInIndia #Economy

https://www.autocarpro.in/news/vedanta-invests-rs-21000-crore-in-indias-ev-metals-supply-chain-134605?amp=1

DRDO demonstrated a 3.5×3 mm indigenous GaN MMIC that delivers up to 30W and runs 300× faster than silicon, the MoD FY25-26 report said. SSPL made 4-inch SiC wafers and GaN HEMTs up to 150W. GAETEC, Hyderabad, has limited GaN-on-SiC MMIC production. #Defence

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Haryana govt approves Hisar, Kurukshetra, Narnaul, Jind and Sohna-Palwal bypass projects. An investment of approximately Rs. 9,700 crore will fund these crucial infrastructure developments. #Infra

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India’s 647 RSETIs will shift assessments to blockchain certificates and computer-based tests. The network has trained 6.35 million candidates and each institute must train 1,000 a year. 4G now covers 6.31 lakh of India’s ~6.5 lakh villages. #Reforms

Cummins India’s data-centre share of revenue rose to 14% in FY26 from under 2% seven years earlier. Data centres added up to ₹1,665 cr of its ₹4,758 cr domestic power-gen sales. PL Capital pegs a ₹1.35 tn genset opportunity by 2030 from 2.2 GW of extra DC capacity. #Infra #Tech

#GIFT City had leased 237 aircraft by June 2026, up from 17 in December 2023. Indian airlines’ order book is 2,000-plus aircraft, with ~80% of the fleet still leased via Ireland, Cayman, Singapore or Tianjin. Thirty-seven lessors operate from the centre. #Aviation

🇯🇵🤝🇮🇳 Japan sent 60+ #space ecosystem representatives to Bengaluru Space Expo. Bellatrix expects Japan to reach 10-15% of India’s spacetech business. SatNxt mapped 230+ Indian spacetech firms for Japanese clients.

🇮🇳🇰🇿 Modi and Kazakhstan President Tokayev discussed an India-EAEU FTA and critical minerals on the sidelines of the 18th #BRICS summit. EAEU ToR was signed in Moscow in August 2025. EAEU members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic and Russia. #Trade #ForeignAffairs

Indian Amrny' Subedar Dhiraj Bommadevara becomes the first Indian Men Recurve archer to win the Archery World Cup Final.

#sports

A newly declassified video released by the US shows the documented rescue of the U.S. Air Force pilot who was shot down over Iranian airspace in April and was rescued by American special forces!!

#internationalnews

🇵🇰 Pakistan puts Rs 70 lakh PKR bounty on UN listed terrorist Masood Azhar

#IndianSubcontinent