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When Climate Hits the Grid

When Climate Hits the Grid

Intensifying climate shocks and rising asset exposure demand climate‑informed resilience across India’s power sector value chain, argue Zeya Farhan and Krishna S Kumar. India’s power sector is undergoing historic expansion, driven by urbanisation, electrification, and economic growth. Historically, India’s power generation fleet has been dominated by conventional generation capacity. However, in the last decade, renewable...

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AI Factories: Turning Data to Scale

AI Factories: Turning Data to Scale

As India’s surging data demand reshapes the digital landscape, success will depend on designing AI‑ready data centres as critical infrastructure for smarter factories, notes Robert HK Demann. Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only about software; it is also equally about infrastructure. Just as steel plants, refineries, and other industrial systems are engineered to run reliably...

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Nuclear power an inevitable option for Net Zero emission by 2070 and developed India by 2047

Nuclear power an inevitable option for Net Zero emission by 2070 and developed India by 2047

Dr Anil Kakodkar, India’s renowned nuclear engineer and former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, discusses the country’s energy transition, the critical role of nuclear power in achieving Net Zero Emission targets, uranium supply challenges, thorium opportunities, the SHANTI Bill, and the future of Bharat Small Reactors and SMRs, in conversation with Swapnesh Malhotra, a...

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Digital India’s Beating Heart

Digital India’s Beating Heart

Crossing the milestones of sustainability, resilience, policy coherence, and capacity expansion will determine whether India can transform into a global hub for digital infrastructure, writes Manish Pant. An important cornerstone in India’s ambition to become a developed nation by 2047 is the creation of a robust digital public infrastructure backbone. And the world’s fastest‑growing major...

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AI is the transformative engine of the next century

AI is the transformative engine of the next century

Riding on the AI‑based solutions high, Pune‑headquartered prescriptive AI firm, Infinite Uptime, is now eyeing top‑dollar heavy industry projects in the US, Europe and Australia. Even as the company has earmarked up to 30 per cent capex for overseas expansion, Karthikeyan Natarajan, CEO, tells INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY’s Manish Pant that India must maximise its digital public...

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Data Centres: The New Cosmos

Data Centres: The New Cosmos

Elon Musk’s historic $75 billion SpaceX IPO is aimed at funding massive artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and ā€˜orbital data centres’ designed to deliver high‑performance computing directly from space, among other audacious goals. The surge in AI spending is truly staggering, with five main hyperscalers expected to spend $700 billion in 2026 alone. By 2030, global...

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Air India to Move Operations to JFK’s New Terminal 6 in 2028

Air India to Move Operations to JFK’s New Terminal 6 in 2028

The decision aligns Air India with fellow Star Alliance members, enabling customers through codeshare and interline partnerships to enjoy seamless, same‑terminal connections across the Americas. JFK Millennium Partners (JMP), selected by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to build and operate John F Kennedy International Airport’s new Terminal 6 (T6), announced that...

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Indofast Energy-Hala Mobility Alliance to Deploy 40,000 EVs by 2027

Indofast Energy-Hala Mobility Alliance to Deploy 40,000 EVs by 2027

The alliance aims to eliminate range anxiety and charging downtime, ensuring uninterrupted service delivery for commercial and last‑mile fleets. Indofast Energy, a joint venture between Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (IOCL) and Sun Mobility, has announced a strategic partnership with Hala Mobility, an EV‑as‑a‑service platform focused on decarbonising India’s logistics ecosystem. The collaboration is positioned as...

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AI‑Native Cybersecurity: The New Shield for a Hyperconnected World

AI‑Native Cybersecurity: The New Shield for a Hyperconnected World

Cybersecurity must evolve from fragmented, reactive controls to an AI‑powered, human‑led, always‑on model delivered through a unified platform, writes Sharat Sinha. The world has entered an era where more than 20 billion connected devices generate continuous digital exhaust. Every transaction, sensor read, API call, and remote login now feeds a vast digital nervous system supporting...

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NHAI Expands Rajmargyatra App with Digital Local Pass and MargMitra Help Centre

NHAI Expands Rajmargyatra App with Digital Local Pass and MargMitra Help Centre

These initiatives aim to make highway travel more seamless by eliminating manual documentation and providing faster commuter assistance. The national highways developer, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), has introduced citizen‑centric ā€˜Local Passes’ and a digitally enabled ā€˜MargMitra’ help centre on the Rajmargyatra mobile app. These initiatives aim to make highway travel more seamless by...