The Government of India enterprise has invited bids for the supply of polycrystalline solar modules for 2.86 MW of grid-connected solar power projects at Akola and Amravati in Maharashtra.

CEL has reissued a tender for setting up a 2.75 MW grid-connected ground-mounted solar power project at the Indian Oil Ltd’s LPG bottling plant at Trichy, Tamil Nadu. Apart from the supply of balance of system and commissioning of the project, the successful bidder will have to provide operation and maintenance for five years.

Tata Electronics, which is set to make components for Apple products, will invest Rs5,000 crore and employ 18,000 people in the first phase, with higher investments in subsequent phases. It has already broken ground and started construction work at GMR SEZ near Hosur in Krishnagiri district.

The communications equipment firm has bagged an order worth $13 million (Rs. 95 crore) from a telecommunications service provider in South East Asia for supply and installation of its broadband products. The project is expected to be executed in the next 12 months.

The South Korean consumer electronics major will invest nearly Rs. 5,000 crore in a smartphone display manufacturing facility in Noida. The export-oriented unit is expected to be ready by January-February 2021 and attain commercial production by April 2021. So far, the company has already invested about Rs 1,500 crore in the greenfield plant.

HFCL, formerly known as Himachal Futuristic Communications, has bagged a letter of award aggregating to Rs. 678.50 cr from Larsen & Toubro to supply IT equipment, software solutions and associated equipment. HFCL said the project is expected to be completed by April 2022.

The company has received an order for an amount Rs. 5.07 crore from Bharat Electronics Ltd for supply of communication equipment.

Bengaluru-based QThree Techpark has joined hands with a Gujarat-based local manufacturing company ABAJ group to set up a TV and air-conditioning manufacturing facility near Mehsana in Gujarat. The facility, spread across 13 acres, will see both parties investing Rs. 1,000 crore in three years.

Indian electronics parts maker Sahasra has earmarked an investment of Rs. 350 crore over the next four years for assembling mobile phone memory chipsets, laptop hard drives and motherboards in India with two new manufacturing facilities coming up in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.