Videotex announced its plans to invest Rs 100 crore over the next two years towards setting up a new LED TV smart manufacturing facility in Greater Noida. With this investment, the company is also planning to upgrade its existing capacity in Greater Noida to 1.4 million TVs and the new capacity to 1.8 million TVs, to achieve a combined production capacity of 3.2 million units a year.

Panasonic Life Solutions India has opened a new manufacturing facility in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh. The company will be investing Rs 600 crore in two phases, of which it has invested Rs 300 crore in the first phase. The unit will be the company’s first electrical equipment manufacturing base in the South and seventh in India.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed two contracts worth Rs 3,102 crore with the Bengaluru and Hyderabad units of the Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), in New Delhi. The MoD and the BEL-Bengaluru concluded the contract for the supply of Advanced Electronic Warfare (EW) suite for fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force. The overall cost is estimated to be Rs 1,993 crore, as per a statement from BEL. According to the public sector undertaking, the supply of advanced EW systems would significantly enhance the battle-survivability of the fighter aircraft while undertaking operational missions against adversaries’ ground-based as well as airborne fire control and surveillance radars. The EW suite has been indigenously designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). The MoD signed the contract with the BEL-Hyderabad for Instrumented Electronic Warfare Range (IEWR) for the Air Force. The contract was a significant step towards enhancing the capabilities of the IAF to prepare for future warfare. The overall cost of the contract would be Rs 1,109 crore.

The Defence Ministry has sealed a contract with Bharat Electronics for the development of an electronic warfare equipment for the Indian Air Force at a cost of Rs 1,109 crore.

Awarded contract for procurement of smart plus equipment and accessories with SAG approved ALGO for secure mode communication.

Telmos Electronics Pvt Ltd contract award for construction of Government medical college at Jind (Shifting / conversion of 132 KV D/C Line from 220 KV Jind to Sector-9 and 132 KV S/C Jind Safidon line pasing through proposed Medical College).

A team from Indian conglomerate Vedanta has visited Pune to survey the feasibility of setting up its electronic chip plant in the district. Vedanta Group firms have applied for setting up semiconductor and display manufacturing units in the country under the governments incentive scheme. They were assessing the place and the ecosystem for their proposed semiconductor unit.

The Ministry of Defence has signed a contract for Rs 1,075 crore with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for the retro-modification of Commander Sight of Battle Tanks-T-90. The retro-modification will be carried out in 957 T-90 tanks of the Indian Army. As per the defence ministry, the successful indigenous development of thermal imager based Commander Sight will provide further fillip to indigenous R and D and defence manufacturing.

The chipset maker may set up its semiconductor manufacturing unit in India, taking advantage of the Rs 76,000-crore production-linked incentive scheme for designing and manufacturing semiconductor chips in India. The Union minister for electronics and information technology welcomed Intel on twitter.