Great Falls, Va. – October 15, 2026 -- NTPC Limited, India's largest electric utility, has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement with Virginia-based 247Solar for the company's first commercial solar thermal project, a ~1MW hybrid plant at Rajasthan's Bhadla Solar Park.

Mumbai – October 15, 2026 -- Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) and RMZ have begun construction of Mumbai 3, a 64MW AI-ready data centre at their Navi Mumbai Campus, after signing a first hyperscale customer and fully pre-letting the facility.

The project is part of the companies' joint venture (JV), announced in 2024, to invest $1.7 billion in the Indian data centre market. Ground preparation began in December 2025. The companies said the JV has reached this milestone within 18 months of signing.

Bhubaneswar – – October 14, 2026 -- Dr. Achyuta Samanta, founder of KIIT and KISS, was unanimously elected the first President of the Indian UniSport Federation (IUSF) at its inaugural Annual General Meeting on Sunday. The Federation is recognised by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

San Antonio – October 14, 2026 -- Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has won Frost & Sullivan's 2026 Asia-Pacific Customer Value Leadership Recognition in data centre infrastructure and operations, backed by a portfolio approaching two gigawatts of capacity at the time of assessment.

India – October 12, 2026 -- Carbon-markets data provider Clever will release CleverIQ, a natural language query tool, in early access on May 1, adding a partnership with ICR and highlighting client Compliance Kart's new ENVR marketplace.

Stockholm – October 12, 2026 -- Sandvik has acquired Mastercam India and select assets of CAD/CAM CONSULTING SERVICES INC. (CCCS), two long-standing Mastercam channel partners that together generated net annual revenue of around SEK 120 million in 2025.

Both companies will join the Mastercam business unit and report within the Intelligent Manufacturing business area. The deals follow a series of similar acquisitions Sandvik has made in recent years and are intended to strengthen local capabilities and widen its sales network across regions.

New Delhi – October 09, 2026 -- The India Mental Health Alliance (IMHA), a network of 400 organisations across 30 Indian states, is building a shared Knowledge Hub and has published a 11-author anthology to make lived experience a formal input into mental healthcare design and delivery.

New Delhi – October 08, 2026 -- Fibocom and India-based IoT ODM Grid-OS are expanding their partnership to cover smart payment and vehicle tracking devices, unveiling new products at IMC 2026 as India's digital payments volume hits 24.51 billion UPI transactions in August 2026 alone, according to NPCI data.

Bengaluru – October 07, 2026 -- Omega Healthcare has secured recognition in three separate categories of the 2026 Avtar & Seramount benchmarking studies, one of India's most rigorous assessments of workplace inclusion and wellness, with the AI-driven healthcare solutions company set to collect the awards at Avtar's Best Practices of the Best conference on Nov. 3.

Bangalore – October 07, 2026 -- Sonata Software has secured its sixth Microsoft AI Business Solutions Inner Circle award for 2026-2027, placing the firm among the top tier of Microsoft's global AI Business Solutions partner network.