Secret Ingredient expands India's hospitality through design-led consultancy, concept creation, and scalable F&B partnerships.
Secret Ingredient provided end-to-end, design-led hospitality consultancy in 2025, combining concept creation, feasibility research, culinary identity, and operational set-up to translate narrative-driven, place-based concepts into deliverable F&B and service models across hotels, cafe s, restaurants, and integrated F&B hubs, while partnering with larger hotel groups and developers to scale coherent dining identities.

Zootopia 2: Pepsi and 7UP partner with Disney on a zero sugar campaign with limited edition character cans and citywide activations.
Pepsi and 7UP partnered with Disney on a Zootopia 2 campaign promoting a Zero Sugar message through limited edition character cans and integrated online/offline activations. Leveraging a strategic alliance with Shanghai Disney Resort, the rollout targets Gen Z and young families via collectible packaging, city wide experiential events, out of home installations, social media engagement, and promotional merchandise to translate pop culture buzz into sales and deeper emotional brand connection.

Mach Conferences secures Rs. 92 crore contract to manage pilgrimage logistics for about 185,000 yatris over six months.
Award of a government contract valued at approximately Rs. 92 crore to Mach Conferences and Events Ltd. to manage a 2-night/3-day pilgrimage for about 185,000 yatris, encompassing end-to-end logistics, accommodation, transportation, and food services over a six-month period with revenue allocated across two financial years; the company attributes the award to its execution capabilities, compliance framework, and scalability.

Surat-based brand consultancy expands to the United States, onboarding five international clients and offering integrated brand services.
U and I Resources Pvt. Ltd., a Surat-based 360 brand consulting agency, has expanded operations to the United States and onboarded five international clients. The agency offers integrated services - brand strategy, communication design, digital marketing, events & MICE, integrated brand communication, and creative execution - aimed at helping businesses scale from local to national and international markets, supported by industry awards validating its strategic and creative capabilities.

Robotic-assisted knee replacement uses 3D planning and robotic guidance to improve precision, recovery, and patient suitability considerations.
Robotic-assisted knee replacement uses preoperative 3D imaging and intraoperative robotic guidance to enhance implant alignment and preserve healthy tissue, with the surgeon maintaining control; this approach reduces pain, swelling, and blood loss and supports faster mobilization, while applicability extends across age groups and the technology has a demonstrated international safety record, prompting the need to address misconceptions and disclosure in clinical communications.

EV charging infrastructure expansion in India via V-GREEN and RoadGrid collaboration to deploy fast charging stations nationwide.
V-GREEN and RoadGrid formed a strategic collaboration to deploy fast electric vehicle charging stations nationwide; RoadGrid will handle site identification, approvals, local liaison, and on-ground operations and maintenance, while V-GREEN will retain ownership, software integration, and overall management of the charging ecosystem to ensure rapid rollout, high uptime, and a seamless charging experience.

Odisha security and governance: Assembly passed bills to triple MLA pay; CBI probe sought into recruitment scam.
Security operations neutralised Maoist operatives and about 22 insurgents surrendered under the revised Surrender and Rehabilitation Policy, offering incentives up to Rs 1.20 crore. The government recommended a CBI probe into a multi crore sub inspector recruitment scam after numerous arrests. The Assembly unanimously passed three Bills tripling MLA salaries and allowances; those Bills remain pending the Governor's assent.

Delhi airport flight disruptions: 148 cancellations, delays; airlines must follow passenger service norms and assist affected passengers.
Dense fog and low visibility produced 78 cancelled arrivals, 70 cancelled departures, over 150 delays and two diversions; airport staff coordinated with carriers to assist passengers while airlines were directed to comply with passenger service norms including information, assistance during delays, rebooking or refunds, and baggage facilitation.

Stock markets rebound as domestic institutional buying offsets foreign net selling, lifting benchmark indices in early trade.
Equity indices rebounded in early trade-Sensex up 254.38 points to 84,929.46 and Nifty up 89.15 points to 26,028-driven by sustained domestic institutional buying (DIIs net purchases Rs 6,159.81 crore) amid FII net selling (Rs 3,844.02 crore). Market breadth was mixed with specific large-cap gainers and laggards noted; Brent crude slipped to USD 61.27 and regional markets were generally weaker.

Rupee weakens to 89.90 against the dollar amid sustained foreign portfolio investor outflows and muted domestic equity opening.
The rupee weakened to 89.90 against the US dollar in early trade due to sustained foreign portfolio investor outflows, importer demand and exporter caution; market commentary noted that without consistent FPI inflows or interest rate support the currency lacks upward momentum, prompting importers to buy dips and exporters to sell near resistance.

Puducherry's statehood demand centers on altering Union Territory status to strengthen elected local authority.
Demand for statehood dominated Puducherry's political-legal agenda, with parties asserting that the territory's Union Territory status constrains the elected government and urging the Centre to alter the constitutional-administrative arrangement to strengthen local authority. Concurrent administrative developments included a minister remaining a minister without portfolio, appointment of nominated Assembly members, a tax-free budget presentation, and memoranda requesting a CBI probe into alleged counterfeit drug manufacture and distribution.

Punjab Assembly opposes the VB G RAM G Act, urging restoration of MGNREGA over changes to employment guarantees.
The Punjab Assembly unanimously resolved that the VB G RAM G Act supplants MGNREGA by converting a demand driven statutory entitlement into a centrally allocated, supply driven scheme, and urged the state government to demand immediate restoration of MGNREGA, citing potential deprivation of guaranteed rural employment, fiscal burdens from revised entitlements, and governance and transparency concerns.

Food security under PDS now covers 2.73 crore people with e KYC, Aadhaar seeding, and targeted free and subsidised rations.
Public Distribution System coverage in Chhattisgarh reaches 2.73 crore beneficiaries through 82.18 lakh ration cards and 14,040 fair price shops. The state is implementing e KYC (completed for about 2.3 crore members) and Aadhaar seeding to enhance targeting and transparency, using e POS machines and the 'Mera e KYC' app. Entitlements provide free food grains to priority households and subsidised rice to above poverty line families, with fortified rice supplied to priority households. The Niyad Nellanar scheme delivers free food grains and specified grocery items to 42,220 ration cardholders in 402 remote villages in Bastar division.

Three bills reform stamp duty, streamline land records, and fast-track revenue proceedings to support property rights and digitization.
Amendment to the Indian Stamp Act removes duplicate stamp duty levies on deposit of title deeds, hypothecation and equitable mortgage for the same loan transaction, while land and revenue amendments shorten objection and appeal timelines, expedite case disposal, prevent unnecessary summoning of non-litigants, and accord legal sanctity to digital records and digital signatures to support accelerated ownership regularisation and digitised record keeping.

Gurugram man duped of Rs 2.18 crore after friend falsely sought funds for sister's cancer treatment; accomplice arrested.
Allegation that a Gurugram resident was defrauded of Rs 2.18 crore between May 2024 and April 2025 after a friend claimed she needed the money for her sister's cancer treatment; the female account-holder allegedly received funds which an accused accomplice transferred into his own account. The accused was arrested in Hyderabad, produced on transit remand, and is being interrogated while the Economic Offence Wing seeks to locate and apprehend the principal suspect using bank and phone records.

Punjab Assembly debate spotlights MLA party affiliation, appointment and pending defection disqualification amid legislative opposition to new employment law.
A dispute arose in the Punjab Assembly over MLA Sukwinder Kumar Sukhi's party affiliation and entitlement to speak after he was identified both as a former Akali legislator and as having joined another party; the issue was linked to his appointment as chairman of a state corporation with cabinet rank and to a pending disqualification petition alleging defection. The Assembly also held a special session called by the state government to oppose the VB-G RAM G Act, characterizing it as repealing the national rural employment guarantee scheme and prompting partisan debate.

Iran's president warns of harsh response to any attack amid US threats of military strikes over nuclear concerns.
Reciprocal public threats raise the prospect of preventive or retaliatory military action under principles governing the use of force, while Iran's declared cessation of enrichment and international assessments about past weapons-related activity implicate nuclear compliance and monitoring. Concurrently, domestic responses-security force crowd-control, ministerial engagement with protesters, tax relief measures, and temporary public-sector closures for energy management-engage legal issues of civil unrest management and administrative economic regulation.

HIM MSME Fest 2026 to host CEO Interaction fostering investment, policy dialogue, and industry MSME collaboration.
HIM MSME Fest-2026 will host a closed-door CEO Interaction - Strategic Leadership Dialogue as a structured Business-to-Government forum to solicit investment, discuss policy incentives, and consider regulatory reforms aimed at industrial growth across priority sectors including pharmaceuticals, green mobility, food processing, dairy, data centers, and defence, and to promote investor centric policymaking and ease of doing business.

Telcos allege airport denial of Right of Way and excessive charges for use of airport installed mobile infrastructure.
COAI alleges NMIAL refused statutory Right of Way permissions for operator owned IBS and instead imposed commercially onerous payments to use airport deployed infrastructure, purportedly exceeding what the RoW Rules 2024 permit; COAI urges the Department of Telecommunications to direct NMIAL to grant RoW to licensed telcos and to examine NMIAL's conduct as a UL VNO licensee. NMIAL counters that RoW was not denied, that it installed neutral host IBS for security and operational reasons, and that charges reflect industry standards while inviting negotiation.

Kota Bundi Greenfield airport to be operational by 2027, with tenders, funding and a pilot training institute proposed.
Kota Bundi Greenfield airport is slated to be operational by 2027, with two tenders completed, a work order issued for one package, and project sanctioning at Rs 10,507 crores. Authorities have begun talks with aviation service providers and propose a pilot training institute at the existing Kota airport to support operations.