Deccan Region Today

Andhra Pradesh ramps up investment pitch ahead of CII summit

Andhra Pradesh has stepped up its investment promotion efforts ahead of the CII Partnership Summit 2026, with industrialists and investors showing strong interest in exploring opportunities in the state during roadshows held in Chennai and Coimbatore. Representatives of Isuzu Motors, Hero MotoCorp and Coromandel International shared their positive experiences of doing business in AP.

TN government secures over Rs 1 lakh crore in investments in 100 days: Conclave data

Tamil Nadu has secured investments worth Rs 1.02 lakh crore in the first 100 days of the government led by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, according to figures released at the Vettri Tamil Nadu Investment Conclave 2026 on Thursday. The commitments, spread across 104 memoranda of understanding, are projected to generate 121,788 direct and indirect jobs.

Global majors bet on Tamil Nadu as Daimler, Saint-Gobain line up projects

Several global manufacturing majors announced fresh investments in Tamil Nadu at the Vetri Tamil Nadu Investment Conclave 2026, including Daimler, Saint-Gobain and YKK, while as many as 25 companies signed deals to set up their first-ever India facilities in the state. Key engagements include partnerships with Invest Kazakh (Kazakhstan) and INZBC (New Zealand) to promote trade, bilateral investments and sister-city cooperation. Invest Kazakh is expected to lead a 100-member delegation to Tamil Nadu in September 2026, while a Christchurch Mayor-led delegation is planned for October.

L&T secures 'mega order' to build India’s largest NVIDIA B300 chips-powered AI data centre for Together AI

Larsen & Toubro has secured what it describes as India’s largest single-cluster AI infrastructure order, as the engineering major expands into the fast-growing artificial intelligence (AI) data centre business. L&T’s AI infrastructure subsidiary LTN Compute, through its parent VyomaAI will build a specialised AI data centre using NVIDIA B300 chips at its Chennai data centre campus for US-based AI cloud company Together AI. This facility, called an 'AI factory' in industry parlance, will support large-scale AI training, inference and fine-tuning workloads.

US-based Cloudangles opens GEC in Hyderabad

Hyderabad, Cloudangles, a California-headquartered, IP-driven deep-tech and enterprise technology company on Thursday announced it has opened its Global Engineering Centre here. The centre opened on August 11, is expected to scale to 1,000 engineers over the next two years, strengthening Hyderabad's role as a base for building high-value technology capabilities for global markets, a release said.