Another big-ticket investment win for Andhra. Tata Power Renewable Energy to invest ₹6,600+ crore to build a 10 GW ingot-wafer plant in Nellore. It will be the largest such facility in India.

And it will fill a critical missing piece in India’s #semiconductor + solar stack (Ingots and wafers are foundational raw materials for solar cells and modules, and the starting substrate for semiconductor chip manufacturing) #MakeInIndia

FDI surge into India’s tech sector boosts Karnataka & Tamil Nadu, driven by a 2x jump in #IT inflows to $9B. Southern states gain share as Maharashtra & Gujarat dip. Big bets from Meesho, Flipkart, Haldiram Healthcare and global investors power the momentum.

India’s auto #exports hits a record high.

858,000 cars exported in 2025 (+15% YoY,)driven by strong demand from Africa, Latin America and West Asia. #automobile

#Automobile retails rebounded after GST 2.0 cuts: CY25 sales rose 7.7% YoY to 28.16 mn units after a muted first 3 quarters. PV retails +9.7%, 2W +7.2%. Turnaround came post-Sept as lower GST lifted affordability; rural PV demand (+12.3%) outpaced urban. #Economy

India unveils 184 climate‑resilient seed varieties across 25 crops — boosting drought, flood, salinity and pest tolerance. Cereals, pulses, oilseeds, cotton, sugarcane and millets get new hybrids as India pushes higher yields, diversification and farm resilience. #agriculture #aatmarnirbharbharat

ICC told BCB, either travel to India or world cup gonna happen without you

"the ICC told BCB that it was rejecting the latter's request to play Bangladesh's matches outside India due to security concerns. The ICC is understood to have told the BCB that Bangladesh will need to travel to India to play the T20 World Cup or risk forfeiting points."

#Sports

Government is planning to merge 'Union Bank of India' and 'Bank of India' to create the second largest state-run bank after SBI. #Policy

Per American Department of Justice document Pakistan spent $ 5 Million on lobby forms within 3 days to ask US to stop Operation Sindoor.

Pakistan made 60 pleas in 72 Hours to USA, as Indian forces kept attacking high value military targets inside Pakistan. #OpSindoor

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"Abu amerika" se 3 din me 60 dafa meeting ki ceasefire ke liye 😂🤣😂

Paijan 6 teyyare girane wale ceasefire ki bheekh kyu mang rhe the paijan 😭😭😭

🇮🇳🤝🇮🇱 PM Modi, Israeli PM Netanyahu holds 📞 Conversation #Geopolitics

BCCI & Tata has planted 210K trees across India for 2025 IPL & WPL seasons as part of Green Dot Ball intiative

Assam - 160K
Kerala - 30K
Maharastra - 10K
Himachal Pradesh - 10K

#Policy

India’s marine products exports increased by 16% in terms of value and 12% in volume during the first seven months (April-October) of FY 2025-26 as compared to the corresponding period last fiscal, shows official data. According to the data, India’s seafood exports increased to $4.87 billion in April-October 2025 from $4.19 billion during the same period of 2024. In volume terms, it expanded from 9.62 lakh metric tonnes to 10.73 lakh metric tonnes, registering a growth of 12%.


Among the countries which saw a sharp increase in the Indian seafood exports was Vietnam, which imported $359 million worth marine products during April-October 2025, an increase of 110% over $171.4 million during the corresponding period in 2024. Similarly, Belgium recorded an increase of 90% in the import of Indian seafood during the April-October 2025 as compared to the same period last year.



#Trade #Tariffs #Geopolitics

Real GDP has witnessed 7.4% growth rate in FY 2025-26 over the growth rate of 6.5% in FY 2024-25.

#Economy

Bangladesh will import 180,000 tonnes of diesel from India’s state-owned Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) till December this year at a cost of 14.62 billion Taka.

The decision was approved by the Advisory Committee on Government Purchase at a meeting held in Dhaka yesterday, chaired by Bangladesh's Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed. The diesel will be imported by the state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC). #Oil #Trade

The National Council of Educational Research and Training, an institution long associated with school textbooks and curriculum design, may soon step into a different institutional role. According to sources in the Ministry of Education, NCERT is likely to be granted deemed-to-be-university status by the end of January #Education

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🇺🇸🇻🇪🛢️ US #Energy Secretary says Washington will take over the sale of Venezuelan crude, with funds deposited in a US-controlled account to benefit the Venezuelan people. #Oil #Geopolitics #InternationalNews