UAE, 2 April 2026 – Metal Park has successfully received its first break-bulk cargo of metals at Fujairah Port, marking a further extension of its operational footprint and reinforcing the continuity of metal flows across the UAE.

This development builds on Metal Park’s existing logistics capabilities, which have consistently enabled the import, storage, distribution, and export of metals across multiple entry points in the country. The Fujairah operation adds further flexibility to an already established system, supporting stable cargo movement and supply chain continuity.

Operations remain uninterrupted.

Supply chains remain active.

Metal Park continues to manage metal flows through an integrated approach that connects port handling, inland logistics, storage infrastructure, and distribution within a single operational framework. This allows materials to move efficiently from vessel discharge through to end-market delivery.

A key component of this system is Metal Park’s Storage Hub, operating as an independent fulfilment centre dedicated to metals. The facility supports flexible storage based on metric tonne (MT) or cubic metre (CBM) per day, allowing users to manage inventory without reliance on fixed space or long-term commitments.

The platform also incorporates structured documentation and inventory management processes, including standardised handling of goods receipt, issuance, delivery documentation, and reporting, ensuring traceability and operational clarity across the supply chain.

In parallel, Metal Park has activated access to trade finance facilities of up to USD 50 million, supporting metal and steel producers, traders, processors, and fabricators in maintaining operational continuity and managing working capital requirements.

The combined logistics, storage, and financial framework allows industry participants to sustain operations, adapt to changing conditions, and maintain steady material flow across the UAE and the wider region.

Metal Park remains fully operational, with all services continuing on schedule.

CHICAGO, Ill. (April 2. 2026) – Metacarpal, a leading medical device manufacturer specializing in body-powered upper-limb prosthetics, added Léa Richer, MSOP, CPO, as Product Support Liaison for its North American team. Richer joined the company to support the expansion of Metacarpal’s GEM prosthetic hand in U.S. and Canadian markets while working with clinicians and limb loss communities across the United States.

In her role with Metacarpal, Richer will focus on clinical education and support, helping prosthetists, therapists, and care teams understand where the Metacarpal GEM can fit within care pathways and how to optimize outcomes for appropriate patients. Her path to orthotics and prosthetics represents her third career, inspired partly by her personal experience wearing a scoliosis brace as a teenager. Her academic training in medical anthropology and history gives her insight into how medical devices impact patients’ lives beyond their technical specifications.

 
“Seeing patients’ eyes light up when they realize how much the GEM could improve their day-to-day life is incredibly rewarding,” said Richer. “My role is to ensure that clinicians have the knowledge and confidence they need to recommend this technology to their patients, and that patients understand how it can fit into their specific lifestyle and goals.”

Richer brings extensive clinical experience in orthotics and prosthetics, including three and a half years as a Certified Orthotist Prosthetist at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Illinois. She completed specialized training through NCOPE-certified residencies at VA Portland Health Care System, where she served as Lead Resident nationally and coordinated research examining associations between mental health and prosthetic use. Metacarpal’s U.S. presence continues to grow as more clinics explore the Metacarpal GEM for patients who need a robust, mechanically intuitive option for partial hand difference.

“Léa is instrumental in our North American expansion because she bridges the gap between clinical expertise and patient advocacy,” said Fergal Mackie, founder and CEO of Metacarpal. “Her experience as a Certified Orthotist Prosthetist, combined with her background in medical anthropology and history, makes her passionate about informed decision-making in healthcare for both patients and clinicians. This perspective directly supports our mission to rebuild trust in prosthetics.”

Richer’s appointment coincides with Metacarpal’s recent U.S. launch in January and OrtoPed’s distribution partnership in Canada in February. Her fluency in French and English, along with conversational Spanish skills, will help the company serve diverse patient populations across North America.

For clinicians and clinics interested in learning more, please visit www.metacarpalprosthetics.com. 

By Mor Ahuvia, Office of the CTO

To move fast without losing control, enterprises need a Hybrid Mesh Network Security architecture. But for CISOs and CIOs, the challenge is clear: How do you demonstrate measurable business value from adopting hybrid mesh security? Analyst firm IDC interviewed security leaders from global business organizations to uncover the business impact of moving to a flexible, hybrid mesh security infrastructure.

Enterprise networks have become sprawling ecosystems that overwhelm security teams, driving reaction over prevention, while adding tools only compounds complexity. To support initiatives like AI transformation, stay competitive,and ensure leadership in their respective markets, enterprises need a Hybrid Mesh Network Security architecture that offers a single control plane for managing firewalls across complex, hybrid and remote digital environments.

Download the IDC Business Value of Hybrid Mesh | Check Point Software

Cyber security budgets are set to increases in 2025. That said, boards still expect to see the business justification of those increased budgets.

So where do you start?

In its 2026 IDC Business Value of Check Point Hybrid Mesh Network Security Solutions study, the analyst firm uncovers how organizations realized tangible, quantitative results by adopting a hybrid mesh architecture.

What is Hybrid Mesh Network Security Architecture?

Check Point’s Hybrid Mesh Network Security (“Hybrid Mesh”) is an architectural approach that applies consistent security controls across all connectivity points—data center, cloud, branch, remote users, and applications—managed from a unified platform. It is designed to empower enterprises by applying security controls wherever network connectivity exists. Rather than forcing all traffic through a single inspection point, a Hybrid Mesh architecture leverages any combination of hardware and virtual appliance, cloud-based points of presence (PoPs), user and mobile device agents, and browser extensions to reduce risk, simplify operations, and improve performance for day-to-day work. You can learn more Hybrid Mesh here.

Articulating Your Security’s Impact on the Business

The areas studied included IT staff productivity benefits, risk mitigation benefits, business productivity benefits and security and infrastructure cost reductions. Here’s a breakdown:

Benefits from Improved Security Posture

A unified architecture with globally shared threat intelligence enables increased block rates for malware and phishing, and more effective intrusion prevention to stop malicious attempts to exploit software vulnerabilities. Capabilities like tying intel from the wild to organization-specific exposures, and the ability to perform automated remediation also contribute to a stronger security posture and a diminished attack surface. This in turn translates into fewer impactful incidents, 60% to be exact. Since even a single incident can lead to a costly breach, a continuous multi-vendor approach to exposure management makes a difference.

Benefits from IT Staff Productivity Benefits

The ability to centrally manage a complex infrastructure across multiple enforcement points, easily configure policies, and quickly locate issues contribute to lowering the operational overhead of maintaining an acceptable security posture. By adopting a hybrid mesh architecture, organizations realized an average of 78% faster time to incident resolution, 54% less staff time required for patching, and fewer help desk tickets, while securing significantly more terabytes of traffic without additional security products.

Infrastructure Cost Reductions

How much will centrally managing multiple firewall form factors actually save you? Per IDC’s study, consolidating point products into a single hybrid mesh platform reduces cost by 25%, and “Several organizations also highlighted more efficient scaling of security capacity, particularly in hybrid and cloud environments, which has allowed them to avoid disruptive upgrades and better align infrastructure spend with actual demand.” Learn more about cloud-like hyperscalable security here.

Business Productivity Benefits

Business resilience is a key measure of how well organizations, and security teams, respond to adverse digital events. A breach-related outage can easily grind business operations to a halt, resulting in lost revenue from service downtime and lost productivity. By attaining a stronger security posture, with fewer incidents, as well as resolving incidents fasters when they did occur, interviewed organizations were able to cut business downtime by an average of 66% annually, and even increase their bottom line, seeing a 6-month payback on their initial investment in a hybrid mesh architecture and a 314% 3-year ROI.

Know your Architecture’s Worth – Get Started

Hybrid Mesh is how organizations are seizing opportunities, meeting sovereign AI mandates, and migrating from on-prem to cloud and back. Read the full study to uncover how global organizations, from government to financial services to wholesale and others have unlocked more opportunities, supported innovation and increased their bottom line. As a Life Sciences customer from North America put it: “Check Point has increased our agility and confidence … This has delivered operational efficiencies and contributes to hundreds of thousands in additional annual revenue.” 

Mumbai, INDIA, Apr 02: Tata Communications, a leading global communications technology player, proudly announces that it has been recognised as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global WAN Services, marking its thirteenth consecutive year of recognition for Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. 

Over the past year, Tata Communications has continued to redefine its Network fabric through advanced AI and analytics, offering composable, high-speed, on-demand and intent-based connectivity that supports enterprises worldwide across industries such as finance, manufacturing, retail, media, and IT services. Some key advancements include: 

• Expanded its network-on-demand portfolio with new options such as IZO^TM DC Dynamic Connectivity (DC stands for Data Centre), multi-cloud on-demand connectivity, giving enterprises greater flexibility to scale networks as needed
• Investment in next generation high density single mode fibers and high-capacity capable wavelength services of 800G to meet emerging requirements of AI cloud infrastructure
• Extended global coverage through strategic partner PoPs, enabling rapid deployment and flexible service expansion in key markets. Collaboration with leading local offnet partners to ensure reliable last-mile connectivity across global regions
• Strengthened Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) capabilities to address emerging AI-driven threats, including risks such as unauthorised data uploads, ensuring stronger protection for enterprise environments
• Plan to offer quantum safe encryption services leveraging Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms standardised by NIST, which provide robust security against both classical and quantum attacks 

Genius Wong, Executive Vice President, Core and Next-Gen Connectivity Services & Chief Technology Officer, Tata Communications, said: “We are honoured to be recognised for the 13th consecutive year and deeply appreciate the continued trust our customers place in us. At Tata Communications, we will continue to transform our solutions so enterprises can build resilient, high-performance and intelligent digital foundations. With our future-ready, resilient and intelligent Network fabric, enterprises can scale with confidence and thrive in an AI-powered future world.” 

Gartner Disclaimer

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By:- Mr. Kalyan Goswami, DG Agro Chem Federation of India (ACFI)

In light of the ongoing geopolitical situation,we wholeheartedly appreciate the government’s proactive measures and timely interventions to support the nation’s economic and industrial stability and ease of doing business with its decision to exempt various products from the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, through G.S.R. 246(E). These forward-thinking actions are vital for the agrochemical sector to ensure that Indian farmers have an uninterrupted supply of vital agri inputs. Further, we need clarification on whether cargo currently held in bonded facilities in India is eligible for reduced duty rates.

 “ACFI would also strongly recommend the immediate inclusion of several essential chemicals, specifically acetone, acetonitrile xylene, ETFA, and heptane, in the relevant statutory list to ensure continued operational stability across the sector.”

The industry strategy of utilising forward contracts to rapidly build inventory is resulting in hasty buying behaviour, which is exerting pressure across all material supply chains. Current industry inventory levels are projected to be exhausted by August- september 2026 and new inventory will be required soon after. The situation is worsening as vessels are experiencing delays against their scheduled arrival in India. This necessitates extending the order to quarter  to mitigate the impact of these delays on material availability.  

New Delhi: The Union government exceeded its approved expenditure by ₹54,067 crore in the financial year 2022–23, largely due to higher-than-expected debt repayments, according to a report by the Public Accounts Committee.

The report, recently tabled in the Lok Sabha, highlighted concerns over gaps in budget planning and expenditure management. It noted that despite seeking additional funds through supplementary grants during the year, actual spending still surpassed the sanctioned limits.

A significant portion of the excess—over 99%—was attributed to debt servicing under the Department of Economic Affairs in the Finance Ministry. A smaller share of the overspending was linked to capital expenditure by the Ministry of Railways.

As per parliamentary procedures, the excess expenditure will now require formal approval for regularisation. The development has raised questions about the accuracy of budget estimates and the effectiveness of financial controls within key government departments.

The findings underscore the need for more precise fiscal forecasting and tighter monitoring of public spending to ensure better alignment with approved budgets in the future.

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: A major industrial boost is on the horizon for Odisha with the signing of a key agreement for a large-scale ammonium nitrate project in Jharsuguda. The project, to be set up in Lakhanpur, is expected to attract an investment of around ₹25,000 crore.

The agreement was signed between Coal Gasification and Chemicals Limited and Mahanadi Coalfields Limited for leasing land required to establish the facility. The signing took place in New Delhi in the presence of Union Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy.

The project will come up on nearly 350 acres of land under MCL and is being developed as India’s first coal gasification-based ammonium nitrate plant. It will use indigenous technology developed by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, marking a significant step toward self-reliance in the chemicals and energy sector.

Once operational, the plant is expected to produce around 2,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate per day. The project is being implemented by Coal Gasification and Chemicals Limited, a joint venture involving BHEL and Coal India Limited. Engineering and development work has been assigned to BHEL and Larsen & Toubro, with groundwork already underway at the site.

Officials indicated that preparatory work, including land development and infrastructure setup, is progressing, with a target to complete the project within 42 months.

The initiative is expected to significantly reduce India’s dependence on imported ammonium nitrate while strengthening domestic manufacturing capabilities. It is also likely to generate employment and support industrial growth in the region, positioning Odisha as a key hub for advanced industrial projects.