🇮🇳🇸🇦 Air India and Air India Express flights to and from Riyadh and Dammam will remain suspended until 7 November 2026, while services to and from Jeddah will remain suspended until 31 October 2026

#Aviation

🚀 Vikram Solar will roll out its first solar cells in December 2026 from a massive 9 GW N-type TOPCon plant in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu! 🇮🇳🔋

🏢 Developed by VSL Green Power at a 200-acre SIPCOT campus, the project is expandable to 12 GW and will create 2,000+ local #jobs. 💼✨

🌱 This phase follows their 6 GW module plant, with a final 9 GW ingot & wafer facility coming by FY29 to power fully "Made-in-India" #solar #energy. ☀️🛡️

🔗 Economic Times

🏭 Odisha has attracted investment proposals worth ₹53,894 crore, with 20,210 potential #jobs.

⚡ NLC India proposed ₹37,000 crore, while L&T outlined an ₹8,100-crore investment.

🏗️ JSW and Posco also discussed a proposed 5-million-tonne #steel plant worth ₹35,000 crore.

🔗 Swarajya

🚆 Madhya Pradesh gets 118 km of new rail lines as Satna–Devendranagar and Rewa–Churhat sections open.

🇮🇳 Projects cost nearly ₹1,943 crore.

🚉 New Devendranagar–Churhat passenger service flagged off. #Railways

🔗 Swarajya

🏦 PM Modi inaugurated RBI's new data centre and cybersecurity institute in Bhubaneswar Today.

💻 The Tier IV-certified data centre facility will support critical payment systems.

🔐 The institute will strengthen #cybersecurity capabilities.

🇮🇳 India's first dedicated maritime NBFC disburses ₹5,107 crore.

⚓ Financing supports #ports, #shipbuilding and coastal #infrastructure.

📊 Targets ₹60,205 crore in cumulative disbursements by FY31.

🔗 Swarajya

🚆 Chhattisgarh expands its rail network as a train reaches Rowghat for the first time since Independence via the newly opened Tadoki–Rowghat section.

🇮🇳 Key infrastructure milestones include the completion of the 95-km Dalli-Rajhara–Rowghat project and the Abhanpur–Kurud broad-gauge line.

🚉 New Rowghat–Raipur and Raipur–Kurud passenger train services flagged off to connect remote areas to the national network. #Railways

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💥 BREAKING: Yemen's Houthis announce they just struck Saudi Arabia's East-West crude oil pipeline and multiple of its pumping stations, as well as 6 other Saudi targets, including Saudi Aramco oil facilities.

#InternationalNews
#war

Govt issues guidelines for ₹84,084-crore Samudra Manthan scheme to support deepwater #oil exploration until FY2030-31. It allocates ₹43,200 crore for 60 wells, with up to 50% cost support capped at ₹675 crore per well. Scheme targets addition of over 600 million tonnes of oil equivalent. #Energy

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Fertilizer through Hormuz has dropped to zero. No fertilizer cargo crossing the strait in September or October.
• Before the war, about 20% of the world’s traded nitrogen fertilizer went through it, Fertilizer Daily reports.
• The Gulf also supplies about half of the world’s traded sulfur.

#InternationalNews #economy

BSF has apprehended 4 Pakistani fishermen and seized one boat from Sir Creek area in Gujarat's Kutch district.

The fishermen were caught last evening while illegally entering Indian waters.

The apprehended fishermen have been identified as Kadir Thaimor, Muhammad Mussa, Azgar Thaimor and Ahsan Jat. All 4 are residents of Pakistan’s Sindh province.

#Indiansubcontinent #Nationalsecurity

🔥 🎀 CCMB Hyderabad Finds Cell's Viral Switch! 🇮🇳

🔬 A groundbreaking study by Dr. Santosh Chauhan & his team at CSIR-CCMB (Hyderabad) has discovered a dual-action cellular alarm that detects and destroys invading viruses.

🧬 The Discovery: The protein DZIP3 directly grabs onto invading viral RNA, changes its shape, and sounds the alarm.

🔋 Once activated, DZIP3 rushes to the cell's energy hubs (mitochondria) to flag and shield a core immune protein called RIG-I, unleashing a massive wave of protective Type-I interferons.

🛡️ This single molecular switch effectively blocks SARS-CoV-2, Flu, Chikungunya, and Japanese Encephalitis.

💊 Scientists are now searching for small molecules to boost DZIP3, aiming for a single drug that defeats multiple viral threats.#Health

📰 Published in The EMBO Journal (Oct 2026).

India becomes the 3rd largest Aircraft parts and spare parts supplier to Israel in 2026!!
#Exports #Defence

India becomes Eastern Europe's largest explosives supplier in FY26.

- $45M in 2025-26 #exports, surpassing the US ($35M)
- Part of a 1,600% surge in Indian ammunition exports to Europe
- 2nd overall for shells, mortars, propellants & explosives (after South Korea)
- Driven by Eastern European rearmament and stockpile needs #Defence

🔰Preet Brothers Ltd has unveiled one of India’s most advanced CNC and heavy machine-building facilities in Uttar Pradesh, dedicated to Flat Product Rolling Mills, CNC Machines and heavy engineering solutions.

The integrated facility has an annual manufacturing capacity of 50,000 tonnes and can machine and handle individual components weighing up to 300 tonnes. #MakeinIndia

IAF Chief finally rejects original theaterisation plan. Says:

1) IAF will not accept splitting of fighter assets

2) Theaterisation should be in phases so that combat readiness is not compromised

3) No to replicating foreign model.

#Defence
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/iaf-chief-ap-singh-spells-out-theaterisation-vision-no-permanent-geographic-split-of-fighter-assets/

🚀 Himadri Speciality Chemicals is investing ₹1,613 crore in a major capex drive across greenfield and brownfield projects, set for completion by Q4 FY27. 🏭

⚡ The Capex Breakdown:
• 🔋 ₹1,125 cr: LFP #battery materials
• 🧪 ₹248 cr: Speciality #chemicals
• 🖤 ₹170 cr: Super speciality carbon black
• 🔬 ₹70 cr: Carbon nanotubes

🌍 The Goal: Dominate the energy transition across commodities, speciality chem, and new #energy to become a top-3 global pitch supplier (ex-China) and a major international battery materials player. 📈

🔗 Economic Times

🚀 Scimplify raised $25 million in an all-equity round led by Hitachi Ventures, valuing the company at $250 million and positioning India as a global deep-tech manufacturing hub. 💰

⚡ Expansion:

• 🧪 Core Tech: Automating complex molecule synthesis via the SciNode #AI platform.

• ⚙️ Capabilities: Expanding rare earth/critical metals purification, GPU cooling chemicals, defense, and high-purity #semiconductor & battery #chemicals.

• 🔬 Footprint: Scaling R&D in Bengaluru & Hyderabad; anchoring US operations in Texas & Delaware via partner Teknor Apex.

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Raymond Limited is now Raymond Aerospace, Defence & Engineering Limited.

#Defence

Raymond Limited renamed as Raymond Defence, Aerospace and Engineering Limited.