Solar Policy & Traceability: India’s MNRE is seeking comments on a draft to standardize a 14-digit alphanumeric nomenclature for solar PV cell models under ALMM List-II, aiming to improve identification and uniformity across the domestic supply chain. Fuel Quality & Reliability: India’s SIAM says E20 petrol contamination—high chloride and moisture—is driving a rise in fuel-system and exhaust component failures; the government has asked oil marketing companies to tighten retail fuel monitoring and consider stricter chloride limits. Industrial Safety: A major fire at an electronic chip factory in Greater Noida killed two firefighters and injured three after a wall and iron beam collapsed during rescue operations; investigations are under way. Capital Markets for Manufacturing: Trilegal advised Indo-MIM on its $400M IPO, positioning the precision metal parts maker as a key global contract manufacturer using metal injection moulding. Battery & EV Supply Chain: Singapore Manufacturing Federation named Wayne Yap as CEO to strengthen local manufacturing amid global uncertainty, while China’s Gotion High-Tech flagged a sharp jump in expected H1 net profit tied to commercialization and customer mix. Defense Industrial Base: America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining selected winners for a $9M additive manufacturing qualification project call to streamline defense qualification and testing.