Series of national award events in Delhi in 2025 highlighted public recognition and organiser affiliations.
Series of national award events were organised in New Delhi during 2025 to recognise contributions in youth leadership, social service, governance, and cultural fields, including National Youth Inspiration Award (23 January), Desh Ratna Award (29 April and 23 December), National Icon Award (10 July) at the Prime Minister Museum, and Veer Savarkar National Awards (24 September); organiser Sumit Narayan is affiliated with The Bharat News, Bharti Yuva Welfare Association (BYWA), and TBNN Promotion Pvt. Ltd.

UAE-AP investment push: food processing cluster, 40 companies, logistics park and port projects to boost industry and exports.
UAE committed to establish a food processing cluster in Andhra Pradesh and to enable forty UAE companies to set up operations, coupled with investment proposals for a multi-modal logistics park, port terminal development with DP World, a light-gauge steel construction unit for the greenfield capital, and a floating storage and regasification unit, framed as a strategic financial partnership to boost industry, employment and exports.

Hitachi India bets on rail, energy and payments amid faster implementation and larger investment commitments.
Improved implementation efficiency has accelerated the absorption of Japanese and private capital into Indian infrastructure, yielding larger deals and diversified financing across equity, debt and partnerships. Rail (including urban mobility) and energy are identified as primary investment focuses with multi billion dollar spending, while payments infrastructure-spanning ATMs and digital banking-represents a strategic growth area. Artificial intelligence is noted as a cross sector technology likely to enhance productivity and capabilities in manufacturing and operations.

Income Tax Bill 2025 simplifies definitions, consolidates non-profit rules and restructures exemptions and compliance provisions.
The Bill introduces tax year to replace prior temporal terms, streamlines definitions, and restructures non profit law by creating a single category registered non profit organisation with consolidated registration, income, commercial activity, compliance and donation eligibility rules; it relocates exemptions into schedules, converts provisos/explanations into clearer subsections or tables across major heads, consolidates TDS/TCS and administrative procedures, and preserves substantive tax policies while improving clarity and transitional protections.

Arohan Financial Services plans Rs 1,500 crore IPO with 50% fresh issue and 50% offer for sale by existing investors.
Arohan Financial Services plans a Rs 1,500 crore IPO in mid 2026-27 comprising a Rs 750 crore fresh issue and a Rs 750 crore offer for sale by existing investors, with no promoter stake sale; merchant bankers are appointed and a draft red herring prospectus is expected to be filed in the coming months to strengthen the company's capital base.

Ma Anand Sheela says Osho actively coached her during the Oregon years, revealing new on record testimony.
Ma Anand Sheela provides on record testimony that Osho actively coached her during the Oregon years, preparing her to lead media engagement and implement a vision that produced a large spiritual-political compound. She details operational actions she took-organising finances, power structures, logistics including Osho's Rolls Royce-and recounts Osho calling for an "intelligent puppet" whom she became. The episode sets out what she says led to her imprisonment and describes her subsequent personal reconstruction, and it launches The PVT Show's documentary vertical to place primary testimony into the public archive.

NBR Soul of the Seasons: registered under RERA and reported Rs 175 crore sales in Q3 2025.
NBR Soul of the Seasons reported Rs 175 crore sales in Q3 2025 and is a 9.17-acre premium residential project offering 3 BHK units (1,446-1,826 sq ft) with pricing from ?1.64 crore, extensive landscaped open space, advanced aluminium formwork construction, energy-efficient and solar-ready features, and a thematic Pancha Mahabhoota/GAIA design. The project is registered under RERA, presented as ensuring transparency and legal compliance.

Trump plans to make housing more affordable by courting billionaire investment and buying $200 billion in mortgage debt.
Trump's affordability plan relies on private investment commitments and federal measures such as buying $200 billion in mortgage debt and banning large financial companies from buying homes to reduce loan costs and limit institutional competition, while broader tax cuts, deregulation, and reduced enforcement are promoted to attract billionaire capital despite persistent shortages in home construction and concerns about distributional effects favoring top earners.

US citizen detained after warrantless ICE home entry, led outside in underwear amid dispute over targets and identification.
Agents forced a warrantless entry into a St. Paul home, detained a US citizen at gunpoint and removed him in underwear into freezing weather; DHS described the action as a targeted operation seeking two convicted sex offenders, but the family disputes the account and the individual plans to file a civil rights lawsuit.

Beauty education podcast Sugarquoted launched by SUGAR Cosmetics, offering expert conversations and weekly episodes on major platforms.
SUGAR Cosmetics launched Sugarquoted, a branded long-form beauty education podcast in partnership with YOSO Media, hosted by CEO Vineeta Singh. Season 1 features ten weekly episodes across major streaming platforms with interviews of creators, founders and clinicians to provide nuanced discussions on makeup, skincare, culture, science and entrepreneurship. The initiative aims to elevate credibility and audience trust as part of SUGAR's content-led brand strategy, supported by YOSO Media's production and distribution expertise.

Space data centres to address power and cooling limits, leveraging solar energy and new connectivity for massive AI demand.
Cisco predicts space data centres will be built to address terrestrial power and cooling constraints, leveraging higher solar intensity and energy availability in space; these centres will require robust connectivity and solutions to thermal dissipation in vacuum while meeting massive AI-driven continuous compute demand.

AI will reconfigure jobs and workflows; infrastructure, trust, and data gaps demand investment and machine-scale defenses.
Adoption of AI is limited by three core constraints-infrastructure capacity, trust and safety, and a shifting data landscape-and addressing them requires major investment in networking, compute, and data solutions tied to economic prosperity and national security. Cyber defense must operate at machine scale and include mechanisms to secure AI itself, such as runtime enforcement guardrails and correlating machine-generated time-series data with human-generated data for safer, more predictable model behavior.

Kerala under financial pressure from central curtailments; borrowing limits and IGST adjustments cut state revenue.
Kerala reports fiscal strain from central measures: restrictions on borrowing limits and IGST adjustments denied Rs 17,000 crore in 2025-26, and a divergent GSDP methodology caused a further Rs 4,250 crore shortfall; these concerns, along with alleged excessive centralisation and interventions into state subjects, have been raised with the central government.

New Income-tax Bill simplifies the tax law, replaces previous/assessment year with a single tax year and reorganises provisions.
The Income-tax Bill, 2025 reorganises and simplifies the Income-tax Act, 1961 by removing provisos and explanations, consolidating dispersed provisions into clearer sections, tables and Schedules, and replacing 'previous year' and 'assessment year' with a single tax year, while preserving existing policy content and ensuring transition through Repeal and Savings provisions.

Cisco sees India as a strategic market and will continue investing, adding local manufacturing and public private partnerships for AI.
Cisco identifies India as a strategically important market and commits to continued investment and operational expansion there, noting a large local workforce and the localization of manufacturing exemplified by a Chennai facility. The company emphasizes collaboration with Indian public authorities through public-private partnerships and intends to supply advanced technologies to support AI capabilities as part of its regional strategy.

India life sciences R&D: symposium calls for rigorous, ethically governed, regulatorily aligned research and stronger public private collaboration.
Manthan 2026 brought together industry leaders and regulators to prioritise modernising research operations, building talent and infrastructure, and advancing translational science. Sessions focused on enabling next generation therapeutics, a research roadmap for tropical and neglected diseases, and the necessity of patient centric models. The symposium stressed the need for scientifically rigorous, ethically governed, and regulatorily aligned research frameworks, reinforced cross sector collaboration, and urged adoption of quality standards and data driven clinical practices to position India as a global life sciences R&D hub.

BMW India launches DRIVE YOUR MATCH campaign positioning each BMW as a personal match to individual identity and lifestyle.
BMW India launched the DRIVE YOUR MATCH campaign to reposition its messaging from accessibility to premium precision, presenting each BMW as a match to an individual's personality and lifestyle, and unifying the full product and service portfolio under a single call-to-action platform for consistent deployment through mid-2026.

Suzlon advances Wind 2.0 with product development, EPC, services and digital transformation to scale renewables.
Suzlon's Wind 2.0 restructures its wind business by establishing a separate product development division and expanding EPC and services, underpinned by digital transformation, customer value delivery and workplace safety, while positioning turbines plus storage as components of reliable, 24x7 renewable supply to reduce import dependence and address energy security risks.

India private markets: 2025 saw lower deal volumes, concentrated capital in larger rounds, tighter fundraising and an M&A rebound.
India's private markets in 2025 showed lower deal volumes but greater capital concentration into fewer, larger private equity and later stage venture investments, with early stage VC activity constrained. Fund launches and fundraising tightened, exits fell to a multi year low by volume even as exit value held steady through selective, larger monetisations, and M&A rebounded while equity capital markets cooled and issuance became more selective.

Trade tariffs: Trump's 10% tariff threat spurred global market declines and bond yield volatility in Asia.
A threatened unilateral 10% import tariff on goods from eight European countries depressed equity benchmarks and provoked diplomatic backlash, while Japan's snap election call and proposed temporary food-tax suspension raised expectations of increased government spending and drove long-term bond yields sharply higher.