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Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Limited (Ujjivan SFB), serving over 1 crore customers through 800+ branches across 26 States and Union Territories, announced the launch of its new brand campaign ‘Nothing Small About Us’, featuring acclaimed actor and Padma Shri awardee R. Madhavan as its Brand Ambassador. The campaign is rooted in a key customer insight: the word ‘Small’ can sometimes create a perception that the Bank caters primarily to small-ticket financial needs, has a limited range of banking products and offerings, or operates at a smaller scale. ‘Nothing Small About Us’ seeks to address this perception by showcasing the Ujjivan Small Finance Bank of today. Ujjivan offers a comprehensive range of banking solutions across savings, deposits, lending and business banking, forex and NRI services, as well as investment and wealth solutions. Its loan offerings range from ₹6,000 to ₹250 crore, catering to customers with diverse financial needs. Commenting on the campaign, Lakshman Vela...

Bharat Forge Ltd. and Pratt & Whitney Canada announced that they will work together to evaluate the integration of advanced turboprop engines into a high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program designed and developed by India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Pratt & Whitney is an RTX business. The collaboration supports India’s indigenous unmanned aerial systems efforts under the government’s Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiative. Pratt & Whitney Canada will evaluate engine compatibility, performance and installation requirements. Bharat Forge will lead engine-airframe integration, including installation design and systems interfaces, drawing on its advanced engineering, manufacturing and aerospace systems capabilities.  "Bharat Forge Aerospace business is proud to collaborate with Pratt & Whitney Canada to advance India’s indigenous aerospace and defense manufacturing capabilities,” said Amit Kalyani, Vice Chairman...

HCLTech a leading global technology company, launched The Silicon Shift: When Every Industry Becomes a Chip Industry , a global research report on evolving semiconductor requirements across automotive, medical devices, network equipment and industrial automation verticals. The survey included 300 senior leaders across engineering, R&D, semiconductor/hardware, product, innovation and technology strategy in the United States, Europe and Asia.  As AI accelerates demand for computing power, semiconductors are becoming increasingly central to business strategy. As per the report, 98% enterprises are more dependent on semiconductors than three years ago and 99% expect that dependency to increase over the next five years, while 71% say AI is increasing the importance of semiconductor architecture as a strategic business decision. The dependency is most acute in industrial automation, where 75% report being much more dependent on semiconductors than three years ago, the strongest acc...

  Chicago Pneumatic India has announced the launch of its new CPS 950-300 portable air compressor, engineered to meet the evolving demands of waterwell, mining and solar foundation drilling applications. Combining high-performance air delivery, fuel efficiency and operational versatility, the compressor is designed to help contractors drill deeper, complete projects faster and improve operating profitability. The drilling industry is witnessing growing operational pressures as contractors contend with deeper drilling requirements, difficult and varying ground conditions, declining groundwater tables, rising operating costs, and increasingly stringent project deadlines. At the same time, the surge in solar infrastructure development is fuelling demand for high-volume foundation drilling, making productivity, precision, and reliability more important than ever. Engineered for Drilling Performance The CPS 950-300 delivers 950 cfm at 300 psig, providing the airflow and pressure r...

The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) unveiled its Vision 2032 at its 40th Annual General Meeting (AGM), outlining its roadmap for the period 2027-2032 with a focus on building the trust infrastructure across India’s advertising ecosystem.  The advertising ecosystem is moving faster than traditional safeguards, whether it’s through shrinking review times or formats to monitor or creators changing the control mechanism. Being able to defend, explain and sustain trust at speed and scale is now the key. Brand risk sits inside a wider trust problem with bad actors sometimes hijacking the narrative and consumers seeking evidence and specific explanations. Advertising is also being drawn into larger societal debates around public health, online safety and children’s well-being. The advertising ecosystem, therefore, must be prepared for these changes. Vision 2032 recognises this as a time of great evolution for advertising, which is witnessing disruptions such as artific...

PepsiCo released its 2025 ESG Performance Update , highlighting measurable progress against its PepsiCo Positive (pep+) ambition and demonstrating how sustainability is increasingly embedded in the way the company operates and grows. Globally, PepsiCo has expanded regenerative, restorative and protective farming practices to 4.7 million acres across more than 60 countries, achieved 100% water replenishment at company-owned facilities in high-water-risk areas and reduced virgin plastic use in primary packaging by 6%. In India, PepsiCo continues to make strong progress across these priorities "We're excited by the momentum we're building as pep+ continues to transform our business end to end," said Jim Andrew, PepsiCo Chief Sustainability Officer . "We're making significant progress- from expanding regenerative, restorative and protective practices to 4.7 million acres, reducing emissions of our operations, to evolving our product portfolio to offer more cho...