$1B hotel investment check-in now in sight despite global economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions. India’s hospitality sector is standing tall on the back of robust domestic demand.

Numbers:
• Q1 2026: $345 million in hotel transactions, up sharply, securing India’s first-ever Top 5 spot in Asia-Pacific.
• 2025 baseline: $567 million (67% YoY growth).
• 2026 outlook: On track for a record ~$1 Billion full year.

Strategies & Initiatives:
- Aggressive expansion by Indian & international hotel chains into tier-2 and tier-3 cities.
- Government-led tourism infrastructure push (airports, new circuits, connectivity).
- Focus on midscale, premium, wellness & experiential tourism segments.
- Rise in MICE, weddings & leisure travel.

This momentum signals a structural supercycle. Hospitality is poised to become one of India’s biggest job creators, GDP contributors & wealth generators over the next decade. #Economy

PM Modi reviews Ken Betwa Link Project #Policy

Odisha Govt laid the foundation stone for JSW’s ₹1.25 lakh crore mega Steel project near Paradip

13.2 MTPA capacity, ~32,000 jobs expected with the integrated steel plant targeted for completion by 2029.

#MakeInIndia

NSA Doval's speech in Moscow. #NWO

Wow

Petrol pumps across India may soon offer consumers a wider range of Ethanol-blended Petrol options like E20, E22, E25, and E30

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#Policy

If BJ Party can't manage the collapse of civillian administration then let's just handover the country to the military and end this nonsense of democracy forever.

Otherwise keep the armed forces out of your political stunts.

C2i Semiconductors tapes out AI server power chip, eyes global data centre supply chain

Indian #semiconductor startup C2i Semiconductors has taped out its first smart power-stage chip for AI servers, as it looks to enter the global market for high-performance power management components used in data centres.

In semiconductor design, "tape-out" is the final phase where the blueprint of a chip is completed and sent to the manufacturing facility (the fab) for production.

The Bengaluru-based startup is building "smart power stage" chips — components that regulate (more specifically, reduce) and convert electricity before it reaches high-performance GPUs and CPUs inside AI servers.

Backed by a recent $16.7 million funding round led by Peak XV Partners, C2i is targeting a market currently dominated by large US, Japanese and European semiconductor firms

#MakeInIndia #Startups
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Zoho-backed Netrasemi’s A2000 #AI chipset has achieved silicon bringup and is moving towards commercial production for smart vision, robotics and industrial automation.

Silicon bring-up is the initial testing process where newly fabricated microchips (silicon) arrive from the foundry and are powered on for the very first time. The goal is to safely initialize the hardware, verify basic electrical and functional operations, and bring the chip to a working state.

#semiconductor #startups
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The RFP issued by MoD for the first AMCA prototype (P1) says that it must be ready within 24 months of contract signing i.e. sometime in 2029. Then its first flight must be within the next 180 days i.e. end of 2029.

Flight of P2 must take place within 7 months of P1 i.e. 2030. The timeline for the first flight of

P3 is 9 months later, for P4 another 6 months.

And finally P5 around 2035.

After mandatory 1,800 sorties are carried out before the end of 2035, the Series Production will start.

USA took around 6 years for rolling out the F22 prototype and 5years + for F35 prototype .

Timelines : The timelines for milestones M1, M2, M9 and M14 are mandatory. All other milestones are indicative.

#Aviation #Defence

Our Unique Relationship with a Huge Power, India.
I’ll say this, we face delegitimization in much of the World — but not in India

– Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

#Geopolitics

Indian Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine

#ForeignAffairs

🇮🇳🤝🇱🇰 India has donated 134 Police Cabs to Sri Lanka. #ForeignAffairs

Can we bring something like this for National Level Exams?

Seems the last option from Paper Leaks now #Opinion

🇷🇴⚡🇷🇺 Romanian Defence Ministry confirms Russian Drone Stuck the Country #InternationalNews

Hyderabad’s BluJ Aerospace unveiled Gen #2, its first commercial-grade eVTOL on VANTIS platform, now in active flight testing.

Fully battery-powered with lift+cruise, it targets 200+ kg payload under 500 kg MTOW for heavy logistics, following Gen #1’s 500 kg class demo.

In future VANTIS scales upto 1-ton cargo and hydrogen-electric passenger variants. BluJ has pilots with Power PSU and defence primes. #Drones #Defense
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India wasted 300 GWh of clean power in Q1 2026 as coal plants ignored the 40% minimum load mandate, blocking solar from the grid.

Curtailment was due to transmission constraints and thermal plants not reducing output, citing higher costs, reduced plant life, and no clarity on compensation. The deadline is now pushed to 2027.

34 GWh was curtailed on March 30, 2026 alone. 20 GW of renewable capacity faces 5+ month connectivity delays in FY27, and 25% of transmission projects for 2026-27 are delayed over a year.

Coal plant load factors fell to 55% in 2023-24 from 85% in 2009-10, expected to hit 40%. #Power

IPL Biologicals opened Phase-I of its ₹400 cr, 12-acre cGMP plant in Vadodara Thursday.

Built for ₹200 cr, the automated ZLD facility has 50 KL/day capacity — 60% biofertilizers, 40% biopesticides. Phase-II will double it to 100 KL/day. Total capacity with Uttarakhand: 70,000 L/day.

Plant has SCADA(near-zero human intervention) controls, 500 kW solar. it aims to cut chemical fertilizer use 50%, lower costs, and restore soil.

Launched with Yuvraj Singh, IPL serves 45M+ farmers in 27 countries. FY26 revenue: ₹285 cr; targets exports at 5% in 2 years, 40% in 10 years. #Agriculture
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