India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the subscription of certain equity share capital of Aditya Birla Renewables Limited (ABReN/ Target) by GIP EM Star Pte. Ltd. (Acquirer). The Acquirer is incorporated in Singapore and is owned by certain funds managed by GIM EM Manager LLC. GIM EM Manager LLC is wholly owned by Global Infrastructure Management, LLC (GIM). GIM is an indirectly majority-owned subsidiary of Black...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD), under the Digital India Corporation (DIC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under the initiative titled "BHASHINI for Seva / Sanchalan - A BHASHINI Sahayogi Program." The collaboration aims to strengthen multilingual digital capabilities within the ...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: In a significant step towards empowering tribal artisans and promoting indigenous products, the Department of Posts (DoP), Ministry of Communications, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED), under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. The partnership aims to establish a robust, reliable, and cost-effective logistics framework to support the del...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Shri Durgadas Uikey today informed Rajya Sabha that the subject matter of the question pertains to the Ministry of Panchayati Raj. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj has informed that: The Parliament enacted "The Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996" (PESA), for extending the provisions of Part-IX of the Constitution, with certain exceptions and modifi...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: A meeting of the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI) was held today in New Parliament Building, New Delhi under the chairmanship of the Union Minister for Heavy Industries & Steel, Shri H.D. Kumaraswamy. The meeting was attended by Shri Kamran Rizvi, Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries; Dr. Anshu Bharadwaj, Project Director, NITI Aayog; and Shri K. Sadashiv Murthy, CMD, BHEL, along with senior offi...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: India has intensified efforts to scale up domestic production of rare earth permanent magnets and accelerate exploration of critical minerals such as lithium, with production capacity targeted to reach 5,000 tonnes by 2030, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, and MoS PMO, Dr. Jitendra Singh said in the Lok Sabha today. Replying to a series of questions during the Question Hour in...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change under the Chairmanship of Shri Bhubaneswar Kalita, M.P., Rajya Sabha presented/laid on the Table its 407th Report on Demands for Grants (2026-27) of the Department of Biotechnology, in both the Houses of Parliament on the 25th March, 2026. The Committee considered and adopted the draft Report in its meeting he...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the proposed acquisition of additional shareholding of Valuedrive Technologies Private Limited by Setu AIF Trust, Konark Trust, and MMPL Trust. The proposed combination entails the acquisition of certain additional shareholding (on a fully diluted basis) of Valuedrive Technologies Private Limited (Target) by Setu AIF Trust, Konark Trust, and MMPL Trust (Acquirers). Setu AIF ...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Government of India launched IndiaAI mission with outlay of Rs. 10,372 crore for the development of the overall AI ecosystem in the country. With India's push to democratise Artificial Intelligence and expand compute capacity, along with the rapid growth of data centres and cloud infrastructure, there has been a corresponding increase in demand for high-performance compute resources, including Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Und...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change under the Chairmanship of Shri Bhubaneswar Kalita, M.P., Rajya Sabha presented/laid on the Table its 410th Report on Demands for Grants (2026-27) of the Department of Space, in both the Houses of Parliament on the 25th March, 2026. The Committee considered and adopted the draft Report in its meeting held on 24...