India becomes the first nation to commercially produce bio-bitumen from agricultural waste, with CSIR-led innovation promising lower emissions, foreign exchange savings, and rural income while supporting Viksit Bharat 2047 and greener road infrastructure.
Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd will invest Rs 6,675 crore in a 10 GW ingot and wafer plant in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, backed by a 200 MW captive green power facility, as the state courts upstream solar manufacturing with strong port links and policy stability.
Be Clinical raised ₹6 crore in seed funding to advance anti-aging skincare solutions for Indian skin.
RoadGrid secures $1.33M to scale EV charging infrastructure nationwide. Funding to expand operations and deployments.
Lenovo’s CES 2026 showcase spans AI cloud with Nvidia, Qira cross-device intelligence, AI Glasses Concept, Auto Twist laptops, and rollable Legion and ThinkPad designs.
China’s sweeping export controls on dual-use goods to Japan hit Asian markets, pressure tech stocks, and threaten Japan’s GDP, as geopolitical tensions rise.
Elon Musk’s xAI closes a $20 billion Series E round, beating its $15 billion target to expand GPU-heavy data centers, scale Grok models, and court enterprise and government clients, even as regulators in the EU, UK, India, Malaysia, and France probe deepfake and CSAM risks.
Flent, a proptech startup, raises $2.5M to expand its furnished rental platform beyond Bengaluru and Mumbai.
Arrowhead, a Bengaluru-based voice AI startup, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Stellaris Venture Partners to scale multilingual, compliance-ready voice agents for BFSI clients across India, Southeast Asia, and soon the Middle East, after reporting 4-5X revenue growth and strong deployment traction.
SkinInspired secures $2.9M in Series A funding led by Spring Marketing Capital. Funds to fuel growth.
