Infrastructure

The project marks a significant upgrade for India’s east coast trade infrastructure. With deeper channels and berth-side capacity, Kamarajar Port can now receive larger bulk carriers, allowing shipping lines to move more cargo per vessel. This is expected to lower freight costs through economies of scale, improve operational efficiency, raise cargo-handling capacity and strengthen India’s competitiveness in EXIM trade.

Amaravati’s selection reflects Andhra Pradesh’s fast-rising position in India’s deep-tech landscape. The IBM quantum system is expected to support researchers, startups, academic institutions and enterprises working in pharmaceuticals, materials science, finance, logistics, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and advanced industrial research. These are sectors where quantum computing can help solve highly complex problems that remain difficult for conventional computing systems.

International Resources Holding, the Abu Dhabi-based natural resources investment platform and part of the IHC Group through 2PointZero, will partner with Adani Enterprises Limited, the flagship company of the Adani Group, for the project. The initiative is expected to create a full aluminium value chain in Odisha, covering key stages from raw material processing to value-added aluminium production.

At its core, GAGAN strengthens ordinary GPS signals by correcting errors in real time. GPS is widely used by aircraft to determine position, but its signals can be affected by atmospheric disturbances, timing errors and other technical variations. In aviation, even a small positioning error can become significant. GAGAN addresses this challenge by giving pilots and aircraft systems more accurate navigation data, along with integrity alerts that indicate whether a signal is safe to use for navigation.

As part of the expansion, the company will enhance its Tata Global Network (TGN) by integrating the MIST Cable System between Mumbai and Singapore. The project will add 20 Tbps of network capacity through an investment of ₹594.47 crore (US$63 million).

The achievement comes nearly a decade after AGEL commissioned its first renewable energy project at Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu, in 2016. During FY26, the company added 5,051 MW of renewable energy capacity, marking one of the largest annual additions by any renewable energy company outside China.

The framework will be uniformly applicable across projects being implemented under various modes of construction, thereby creating a consistent quality assurance mechanism across different project delivery formats.

The facility has been established as a technology demonstrator to validate the production of hydrogen using nuclear energy through the Cu–Cl thermochemical process developed indigenously by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai. The successful integration of nuclear process heat with hydrogen generation marks a pioneering technological breakthrough and opens a promising pathway for large-scale, carbon-free hydrogen production using advanced nuclear reactors.

Following this achievement, India is now preparing to scale up the fast breeder programme through two additional units at the same nuclear complex. The Kalpakkam site already has deep nuclear infrastructure, technical manpower, research support and operational experience, making it a natural location for the next phase of breeder reactor development.

The new crane is a diesel-electric hybrid all-terrain machine capable of operating on both electric and diesel power. Its introduction at the Debari smelter is significant because cranes of this capacity are normally associated with high diesel consumption due to the heavy lifting requirements of industrial sites. By shifting a large part of such operations to electric power, Hindustan Zinc is reducing fuel dependence while improving the environmental profile of its smelting operations.