⚡ Engie to invest €3b (~₹26,000 cr) in India by 2030.

📍 Triple portfolio from ~2 GW to 7 GW(operating + under construction); add ~1 GW annually. Elevates India to a leading market alongside France, UK, Belgium, and Brazil.
🎯 Focus: Renewable #energy, #battery energy storage systems (BESS), and data centres.

🚨 JUST IN: #AI Assisted Cyberattacks have siphoned from India's smaller NBFCs an estimated ₹300 crore in just 2 months.😯

Nearly 150 complaints or FIRs have been filed, according to The Economic Times. #cybersecurity #Economy

🧵 Thiagarajar Mills Group & Euro Textiles GmbH launch ₹100-cr JV in Tamil Nadu. 🏭 Produces premium 100% cotton jacquard fabrics for export.

📈 Phase 1: 3 mn m/yr; Phase 2: 6 mn m/yr. Features 48 air-jet looms with jacquard tech. Production starts in 8 months. Thiagarajar holds majority stake, supplies yarn, and #exports grey fabric to Germany. #Textiles

🚗 Himadri invests ₹500 crore to modernize its Odisha factory for EV-ready passenger radial tyres.

🔋 Associate Sicona invests $10.3 million over five years in New Orleans to commercialize silicon-carbon anode tech using its acquired Advano assets.

💰 Sicona also secured an AUD 45 million Australian government grant for anode technology commercialization. #Automobile #Batteries

In a first, a recently passed-out batch of IPS officers will be attached to the Union Home Ministry before proceeding on probation and subsequent posting in their respective cadres, officials said on Wednesday. #Policy

https://theprint.in/india/new-batch-of-ips-officers-to-be-attached-with-mha-before-probation/3084602/

🚀 India's first zinc tailings recycling plant at Rampura Agucha enters implementation

| 💰 ₹3,823 cr project moves to active execution, 2-year timeline for 10 MTPA facility
| 💎 Germanium recovery as primary target alongside zinc & silver via hydro-mining + chemical processes
| 📉 HZL costs down to $825-850/tonne, Zinc Park Rajasthan to boost downstream
#Mining

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Hero Future Energies plans ₹4,000 cr green hydrogen expansion by FY30. Focus: hybrid/storage/RTC + solar/wind, decarbonizing steel/cement/refining. Evaluating 50 MW electrolyser, 250 MW hybrid RE, and 2-3 green hydrogen projects (incl. IIT and Rockman Industries Tirupati). #Energy

Indigo flights to and from Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Madinah, Saudi Arabia will remain cancelled until 14 November 2026.

#Aviation

Minister of Commerce for India, Piyush Goyal says that the US Trade deal is almost final and he has the courage to say India will be at a competitive advantage!!

#Trade

🚀 Sovereign AI Infra: Govt to own & run GPUs on-premises for key sectors

| 🛸 Centre to map critical sectors & data by security levels, sensitive like defence to be 100% state-owned, run & air-gapped
| 👁️ Other sectors via managed service model - state owns hardware, private firms operate on govt premises
| 🎯 Move to control full #AI stack amid complex geopolitics, build high-density GPU clusters & LLMs for govt ops, fix lack of in-house tech expertise #Security

🚀 Patna to raise ₹200 cr via municipal bonds - first issuer this fiscal & first ever by Bihar

| 🏗️ 10-yr bonds worth ₹200 cr, bidding on Oct 30, already presold - HUDCO & NaBFID bid
| 💰 Yield at 7.44% (vs 6.90% a month ago), pricing at 150-175 bps above 10-yr benchmark
| 🎯 Ends inactivity in muni market since Nashik in March, Kanpur next with ₹125 cr, BMC's big issue on hold due to high yields. #Infra #Finance

At the 4th National Conference, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal described India’s 2019 exit from RCEP as "a tragedy averted by the Modi government".

Goyal argued that joining RCEP would have acted as a disguised FTA with China, threatening to destroy Indian manufacturing by opening domestic sectors to zero-duty Chinese imports.

He detailed a "cat-and-mouse game" where he repeatedly warned PM Modi that joining would ruin the economy, even as bureaucrats lobbied the Prime Minister to sign the deal.

On November 4, 2019, PM Modi rejected this pressure and withdrew from RCEP, protecting domestic industry. 🔥

#Trade

🇮🇳🤝🇺🇸 Pixxel sets up US subsidiary to tap federal defence, intelligence contracts

The move marks Pixxel's push beyond satellite imaging into software, sensing technologies and satellite systems, as it looks to deepen its engagement with US government agencies. #Startups

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🚀 Axiro Semiconductor invests in ThinSiC to enter power #semiconductor market

| 🛸 Bengaluru firm (CG Power subsidiary) becomes lead investor in Silicon Valley-based ThinSiC Inc, long-term commercial partnership for SiC devices
| 👁️ Expands beyond RF/mmWave & connectivity chips into power electronics, to tackle cost & scalability barriers for high-voltage SiC
| 🎯 Target - rail traction, industrial drives, power grid infra

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🚀 ASTREVA Aerospace launches VETRIYAAN MISSION!

🇮🇳 Indian startup ASTREVA successfully launched a high-altitude scientific balloon from Karur, Tamil Nadu. Reaching 25.4 km in a 3-hour flight, it carried 1 satellite and 80 experimental payloads to mark 80 years of India's independence. Atmospheric, material, and biological experiments were conducted, and the payload was recovered via GPS near Nagampalli. 🎈🛰️✨ #Space

Assam turns Brahmaputra silt into building blocks with Rs 55-cr Tinsukia plant


Assam is looking to turn the Brahmaputra’s river silt into an industrial resource, with Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday inaugurating a Rs 55-crore green manufacturing facility in Tinsukia that aims to reduce reliance on red bricks

The green autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) block plant, set up by Litebricks Pvt. Ltd, will use sediments from the Brahmaputra as raw material to manufacture construction blocks.

#infra

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