♦ The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a fuel-tech company to promote innovation and support startups in fuel-tech, manufacturing, and allied sectors. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry said that the collaboration will focus on providing structured support to startups in manufacturing and deep-tech domains, including co-hosting innovation challenges and hackathons and organising investor connect programmes and skill development initiatives.

♦ It added that the partnership will also support early-stage innovators from ideation to prototyping and leverage the Startup India platform for wider outreach and participation.