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July 15: The India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is expected to create significant growth opportunities for key sectors such as textiles, footwear, and automobiles, with businesses looking to maximise the benefits of improved market access and reduced trade barriers.

According to industry assessments, the agreement could help Indian exporters enhance their presence in the UK market by improving competitiveness, encouraging new investments, and creating opportunities for expansion across multiple sectors.

The textile and apparel industry is expected to gain from better export prospects, while the footwear sector may benefit from increased demand and easier access to one of the world’s major consumer markets. The automobile sector is also likely to explore new opportunities through stronger trade relations and improved business collaboration.

Experts believe the FTA will provide a broader platform for Indian companies to integrate more closely with global supply chains and strengthen their export capabilities.

The agreement is also expected to encourage innovation, attract investment, and support employment generation across manufacturing and allied industries.

With the India-UK trade partnership entering a new phase, industry stakeholders are focusing on leveraging the opportunities to boost exports, expand global reach, and contribute to India’s economic growth.

July 15: Indian stock markets ended on a positive note after a volatile trading session, with the Sensex and Nifty closing higher, driven by strong performance in banking and financial sector stocks.

The benchmark indices witnessed fluctuations during the day as investors reacted to market developments and global cues. However, buying interest in key banking and financial stocks helped markets regain momentum and finish in the green.

Banking shares emerged as the major contributors to the market’s recovery, providing support to the broader indices. Investors also tracked sectoral trends and corporate developments while maintaining a cautious approach amid market volatility.

Market analysts said the strength in financial stocks helped offset pressure in some other sectors, allowing the indices to close with gains. The positive movement reflected improved investor sentiment despite intraday fluctuations.

The trading session highlighted continued market resilience as investors balanced domestic economic factors, global trends, and sector-specific developments.

With banking and financial stocks leading the rally, the Indian equity market ended the session on a firm note, offering positive momentum ahead of future trading sessions.

July 15: The Union Cabinet has approved the National Urea Investment Policy 2026, a major initiative aimed at boosting domestic fertiliser production and strengthening India’s agricultural supply chain.

The policy is designed to encourage investment in the urea manufacturing sector, expand production capacity, and reduce the country’s dependence on imported fertilisers. It is expected to support long-term fertiliser security while ensuring a steady supply of urea for farmers.

Officials said the new framework will help create a more favourable environment for investments in the fertiliser industry by promoting modern technologies, improving efficiency, and encouraging expansion of existing facilities.

The initiative comes as part of the government’s broader efforts to enhance self-reliance in critical sectors and ensure timely availability of essential agricultural inputs. Increased domestic production of urea is expected to benefit farmers by improving supply stability and supporting agricultural productivity.

The policy is also expected to generate employment opportunities, promote industrial growth, and contribute to the development of a stronger fertiliser manufacturing ecosystem in the country.

With the approval of the National Urea Investment Policy 2026, the government aims to build a more resilient fertiliser sector and strengthen India’s journey towards greater self-sufficiency in agricultural inputs.

New Delhi, July 15: As organisations navigate rapid technological change and evolving workforce expectations, continuous learning has become essential for long-term growth. On World Youth Skills Day, BLS International, a trusted global AI and technology-enabled services partner for governments and diplomatic missions, highlighted its efforts to strengthen employee capabilities through structured learning, leadership development and digital upskilling.

The company continues to invest in learning and development initiatives. These programmes are designed to equip employees with the skills needed for an increasingly digital workplace. Since January 2026, nearly 60% of the workforce across BLS International has participated in development programmes. The programmes cover technical, functional, digital and leadership competencies. This reflects the organisation’s continued investment in professional growth.

BLS International provided employees with access to more than 21,000 digital courses. The company is also rolling out a global Learning Management System. The platform will deliver a consistent learning experience across its international operations.

The company’s subsidiary, BLS E-Services, supports learning through its in-house platform, Empower-360. The platform is used by employees, partners, Customer Service Points  and Village Level Entrepreneurs . It offers personalised learning, progress tracking and data-driven insights to support skill development.

Leadership development remains an important focus area. BLS International’s LEAP, LEAD and iCOACH programmes are designed to build leadership capabilities and encourage knowledge sharing across the organisation.

World Youth Skills Day serves as a reminder of the importance of lifelong learning in preparing individuals for changing economic and technological landscapes. Through continued investment in learning, leadership and digital capabilities, BLS International are working to build a workforce that is ready to meet the demands of the future while delivering value to governments, businesses and citizens worldwide.

July 15: Cathay Pacific is extending its coverage in Latin America with the addition of new codeshare flights to Fortaleza and Recife in Brazil, Buenos Aires in Argentina and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic via Madrid through its oneworld alliance partner, Iberia. These new codeshare flights will bring Argentina and the Dominican Republic into Cathay’s codeshare network for the first time while strengthening connectivity between Hong Kong and the emerging Belt and Road region of Latin America.

Cathay Pacific currently serves six destinations across four countries in Latin America – Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in Brazil, Mexico City and Guadalajara in Mexico, Lima in Peru and Santiago in Chile – through codeshare partnerships via gateways in Europe, North America and Oceania. The Cathay Group currently flies to 33 destinations in Belt and Road participating countries with close to 600 flights per week, with additional destinations served through codeshare agreements.

To support these new codeshare services, starting 25 October 2026 Cathay Pacific will be adding three more flights per week on its non-stop Hong Kong-Madrid route, bringing the service to a daily frequency.

Cathay Chief Customer and Commercial Officer Lavinia Lau said:

“We are delighted to welcome these new destinations in Latin America to our codeshare network. Furthermore, by increasing our Madrid service to daily, we are reinforcing our position as the only airline offering non-stop connectivity between Hong Kong and Spain. These enhancements underscore our commitment to strengthening connectivity between Asia and markets around the world, offering passengers greater choice and convenience, and enhancing Hong Kong’s status as one of the world’s leading international aviation hubs.”

Cathay Pacific’s Hong Kong-Madrid flights will operate on a staggered schedule, with the three additional flights on Monday, Thursday and Saturday providing customers with the option of a late-night departure out of Europe. Flight schedules are as follows:

The airline’s Madrid route, first launched in 2016 with four flights per week, has become an important link between Asia and Spain for both business and leisure travellers. Cathay Pacific also operates a summer seasonal service to Barcelona with four flights per week.

Cairo, Egypt, July 15 – ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation and a leading provider of enterprise IT management and security solutions, today announced post-deployment automation for TLS certificates in Key Manager Plus, its certificate life cycle and machine identity management solution. Key Manager Plus now automates the final stages of certificate renewal, pushing certificates to the target server, running configured scripts, restarting dependent services, and notifying stakeholders, so the whole certificate life cycle runs without manual intervention.

Historically, most organizations did not have much incentive to automate certificate management. Even the ones that did adopt automation workflows limited it to discovery, periodic expiration alerts, and in some instances, automated renewals. That changed when the CA/Browser Forum voted to reduce the maximum validity of public TLS certificates, phasing down from the legacy 398-day validity period to a 200-day period in March 2026 (current cadence), which will drop to 100 days by March 2027, and finally 47 days by March 2029.

“We’re going from under 200 certificates to over 2,000, across a lot of domains, different server setups, credentials and post-deployment actions for nearly all of it. We’ve had to dedicate significant engineering time to certificate management alone since the change to 200 days. With the 47-day certificate renewals coming up, automation is the only way we can keep up, and Key Manager Plus’ CA-agnostic, certificate life cycle management has helped us automate the whole thing,” said Jonathan Choiniere, infrastructure manager at RevSpring, a payment solutions provider based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Automating the Last Mile of Certificate Renewal

Getting the certificate live is the last step in the renewal process, and this post-deployment task has primarily been handled manually by many teams. While this works when teams are renewing one certificate a year, as certificate lifespans shrink and the same steps repeat roughly eight times as often, manual errors become more likely and the cost of an outage can run into the millions.

“Certificate renewal is rarely the hard part. The work that piles up on teams is what comes after it, at scale: pushing certificates to the server, restarting the services, and confirming they actually went live. End-to-end automation is what turns a 47-day renewal cycle from a scramble into something that runs on its own. With Key Manager Plus, we are eliminating the last manual step in the life cycle management loop,” said Vasudevan Seshadri, director of product management at ManageEngine.

Quantifying the 47-Day Shift

To help organizations assess their own exposure to the reduced certificate validity mandate, ManageEngine has also released a 47-day TLS impact calculator. It lets enterprises quantify what the mandate means for them based on three factors: the size of their certificate estate, their current renewal labor, and their outage exposure. From there, it compares those numbers against what they will look like once their TLS certificate life cycle is fully automated. That automation is what Key Manager Plus delivers, and it runs identically whether teams deploy on-premises or in the cloud.