New Delhi, August 12: In line with Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision, the Government is democratising the development and usage of technology. Data centres are an important & integral component of the overall Digital India Infrastructure ecosystem. The Data Centre industry in India has been growing at a steady pace. The rapid growth of AI and high-performance computing is driving increasing demand for data centre capacity in the country. Data centres are located across the country majorly in areas such as Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi NCR and Jamnagar. The installed capacity has grown from 375 MW…
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New Delhi, August 12: In line with the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision to democratise technology and empower citizens, the Government of India launched the Digital India programme in July 2015. Under the Digital India programme, the Government has undertaken several initiatives to improve digital access and ensure seamless citizen-centric service delivery including UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) and DigiLocker platforms. As on 31st July 2026, approximately 2,575 services [Central Government: 880; State Government: 1695] across India are available on the UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) platform, and 5,437 document types/services [Central Government: 661; State Government: 4,776] are available on DigiLocker platform. UMANG has more than 11.66 Crore registered users…
New Delhi, August 12: Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal urged Indian businesses and citizens to adopt fair trading practices, promote recycling and reuse, and encourage a circular economy while taking Indian products and services to global markets. Addressing the inaugural ceremony of the Bharatiya Vyapar Mahotsav at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, Shri Goyal highlighted India’s growing global economic engagement and noted that markets have been opened for Indian industry and businesses through nine free trade agreements. He said that international trade now provides India preferential access and highlighted the contribution of Indian MSMEs, employees, fishermen, farmers,…
New Delhi, August 12: Kkhavo, a new premium and conscious health & nutrition brand has announced its launch in India with a vision to bring authentic, thoughtfully sourced and nutritionally relevant foods to modern consumers. Built around the philosophy of “Nothing Hidden. Nothing Compromised.” the brand combines India’s rich food heritage with contemporary expectations around nutrition, transparency, quality and preventive wellness. Positioned at the intersection of heritage and modern wellness, Kkhavo is creating a portfolio of clean-label foods, heritage staples and nutrition-led products for consumers who are increasingly mindful of what they eat, where their food comes from, how it…
New Delhi, August 12: India is steadily strengthening its indigenous nuclear energy ecosystem with a focus on advanced reactor technologies, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), domestic manufacturing capabilities, private-sector participation and long-term utilisation of the country’s abundant thorium resources, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions and Prime Minister’s Office, Dr. Jitendra Singh, said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today. Dr. Jitendra Singh said India’s long-term nuclear energy strategy continues to be guided by the country’s three-stage nuclear power programme, aimed at sustainable utilisation of its vast thorium reserves for long-term energy security. The strategy has…
New Delhi, August 12: The Government, through the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe), has formulated a Public Private Partnership (PPP) framework for the development, deployment and operation of Earth Observation (EO) satellite constellations, with a view to enhancing the country’s space-based observation capabilities, space economy and building an indigenous, self-reliant Earth Observation ecosystem in the country. Under this framework, Non-Government Entities (NGEs) including private industry, start-ups and, where relevant, academic and research institutions are enabled to design, build, own and operate Earth Observation satellite constellations on an end-to-end basis. The envisaged roles include: Satellite manufacturing: Design, fabrication, integration…
New Delhi [India], August 12: India’s tendering ecosystem moves trillions of rupees every year, yet most of the friction in that system happens long before a single bid is submitted. Rishi Dadhich, founder of Bidwiser, has spent years watching engineering and consulting firms lose winnable opportunities, not to competitors, but to process. For him, the issue is not a lack of visibility. It is what happens after a tender is found. “Most existing tendering platforms are procurement-discovery tools,” he says. “They help you find tenders, but they don’t touch the monotonous work around actually bidding.” That work, in his view, is…
New Delhi, 12th August: Lane , a tech enabled driving education and mobility platform, has raised ₹8.5 crore in a round led by Kae Capital, with participation from DeVC, Antler India, Panthera Peak as well as prominent Angels. The company is tackling a problem India has left unsolved for decades: the absence of structured, high-quality driver education at scale. The stakes are high. More than 1.7 lakh people die on Indian roads every year, roughly twenty every hour. Most Indian drivers learn informally, from family or friends, and the formal test itself is run at 10-15 km/h on a fixed track, nothing like real traffic. India has about 1% of the world’s vehicles but accounts for nearly 11% of its…
Pune, Aug 11: TCG Real Estate, part of The Chatterjee Group (TCG) a diversified business conglomerate operating across petrochemicals, chemicals, real estate, technology, life sciences and financial services has ventured into premium managed living with Yukio, a category-defining brand catering to ambitious young professionals. The move marks TCG’s expansion into one of the new-age residential asset classes, where managed living goes beyond comfort and convenience to provide an ecosystem that ensures holistic growth of individual residents through curated amenities, such as game lounge, gym, yoga deck and basketball ground, along with various community-driven activities. Sharing the Yukio vision, Pratap Chatterjee, its founding leader…
New Delhi, August 11: In a significant step towards unlocking the economic potential of India’s rich heritage of Geographical Indication (GI) products, the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 05th August,2026 at Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi. The MoU was signed by Md. Salik Parwaiz, Director, Ministry of MSME and Shri Karan Thapar, Director, IPR Division, DPIIT, in the presence of senior officials of both organisations. DPIIT is the nodal department for the registration and legal protection…
