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Cent, the preventive-health start-up of Practo co-founder Shashank ND, raised a $15 million Series A led by Blume and South Park Commons on October 27, 2026.

Data centres lead India's announced private investments since April 2024 with Rs 19.14 trillion across 116 projects, a 360 ONE analysis of CMIE data shows.

Tata Communications said on October 26, 2026 it will invest $400-450 million over three to five years in a 10,000-km fibre network linking India's AI data centres.

L&T Technology Services signed a five-year deal on October 26, 2026 to support Nokia's engineering and R&D in India, including a dedicated offshore development centre.

STL's Q2 FY27 revenue rose about 145% to Rs 2,529 crore and profit hit Rs 517 crore, with a record Rs 35,274 crore order book from hyperscaler deals.

The Bank of Russia kept its key rate at 14% on October 23, 2026 and raised its year-end inflation forecast to 7.1%-7.6%; the next meeting is December 18.

ABB's Q3 2026 orders rose 40% to a record $12.1 billion on triple-digit data centre growth, but an earnings miss sent its shares about 5% lower.

Turkey's central bank cut its one-week repo rate to 36% from 37% on October 22, 2026, its first cut since January, as inflation fell below 30%.

Bank Indonesia kept its BI-Rate at 5.75% on October 21, 2026, but raised its deposit facility rate to 5.00% and cut banks' reserve requirements to steady the rupiah.

The Bank of Korea kept its base rate at 3.00% on October 22, 2026, pausing after hikes in July and August, with inflation at 2.9% and growth stronger than expected.

Supermicro said on October 20, 2026 it expects fiscal Q1 2027 revenue of $18.5-19.5 billion, about $4 billion above guidance, on AI server demand.

Infosys and Truist said on October 19, 2026 that they will expand Truist's Hyderabad capability centre, with over 1,000 staff to be onboarded this month.

Colt DCS and RMZ began building Mumbai 3, a 64 MW AI-ready data centre in Navi Mumbai fully pre-let to a hyperscaler, they said on October 15, 2026.

Uttar Pradesh has gathered 810 of a planned 1,000 acres for a data centre and IT hub in Bundelkhand's BIDA township, officials said on October 16, 2026.

Ralph Lauren replaced a sustainability measure with AI literacy and enablement goals in its executive bonus plan, it was reported on October 15, 2026.

CapitaLand unveiled its Rs 1,940 crore, 53 MW Chennai data centre in Ambattur on October 15, 2026; completion is targeted for the end of 2026.

The Delhi Cabinet approved a 10-year Industrial Policy 2026 on 14 October, backing IT, GCCs and data centres, with Rs 1,000 crore for the Udyamshree scheme.

CoreWeave shares fell about 15% to $65.78 on October 14, 2026 as its bond yields neared 15% and it announced new share and note sales.

CtrlS Datacenters opened a Rs 400 crore, 12 MW data centre in Patna on October 13, 2026 and signed an LoI for a proposed Rs 10,000 crore AI facility in Bodh Gaya.

IIT Ropar's ANNAM.AI, NIC Punjab and the state farmers' commission signed an MoU, reported 13 Oct 2026, to put AI crop advice behind farmer helplines.

Himachal Pradesh's cabinet on 10 October 2026 doubled the incentive for cooperative milk producers to Rs 6 a litre and told departments to buy from Milkfed.

Adani Enterprises and US firm Jabil signed a non-binding MoU on 13 October 2026 for a 50:50 venture to build AI racks, servers and cooling gear in India.

At the OCP Global Summit on 12 October 2026, Nvidia contributed its Vera Rubin rack designs to the Open Compute Project and said Meta will use Spectrum-6 switches.

Brazil's IPCA inflation rose to 4.58% in September 2026, above the 4.5% target ceiling, as power bills jumped, IBGE said on 9 October.

Americans Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 economics Nobel on 12 October for the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.

Dell's 2026 readiness study finds 26% of Indian organisations run mature AI in production, up from 20%, while 67% say data centres aren't AI-ready.

Tamil Nadu has sanctioned Rs 603.34 crore to pay cane farmers Rs 709.50 a tonne over FRP for 2025-26, taking the price to Rs 4,000 a tonne, before Deepavali.

ServiceNow launched AI Workflow Factory and Autonomous Engineer at World Forum Mumbai on 6 October 2026, with Infosys and Accenture among Indian partners adopting it.

TVS Automobile Solutions, owner of car-service brand myTVS, raised Rs 425 crore in a Series D round led by UAE-based Crescent Enterprises to grow in India and enter MENA.

India's data centre sector has drawn about $173 billion in investment commitments since 2021, including $38 billion in H1 2026, and is on track for 2 GW by year-end, CBRE says.