Author: Neel Achary

Rupee Hits Record Low Beyond 95 Against Dollar; Sensex Plunges 1,635 Points

New Delhi: The final trading day of the financial year 2025–26 turned out to be highly unfavorable for both the currency and stock markets in India. The Indian rupee weakened sharply, crossing the 95 mark against the US dollar for the first time in history.

This means that more than ₹95 was required to purchase one US dollar during the day’s trading. The sharp depreciation reflects growing pressure on the domestic currency amid global and domestic uncertainties.

One of the key factors behind the decline is the ongoing geopolitical tension in the Middle East, which has now entered its fifth week. The conflict has pushed up global crude oil prices, increasing India’s import bill. At the same time, foreign investors have been pulling money out of Indian markets, adding further strain on both the rupee and equity markets.

As a result, concerns are rising over higher inflation and weakening financial stability in the country.

The rupee had already closed at a record low of 94.81 against the dollar last Friday. On the latest trading day, it opened stronger at 93.59 but quickly lost ground, slipping to as low as 95.20 during intra-day trade. However, possible intervention by the Reserve Bank of India helped the currency recover slightly, allowing it to settle at 94.83 by the end of the session.

To curb volatility, the central bank had recently tightened rules for banks dealing in foreign exchange. It capped their daily net open foreign exchange positions at $100 million and instructed compliance by April 10. While the move initially supported the rupee, the relief proved short-lived.

Meanwhile, the stock market also faced heavy selling pressure, with the Sensex tumbling 1,635 points, reflecting investor anxiety and capital outflows.

Overall, during the financial year 2025–26, the rupee has depreciated by around 11.4% against the US dollar—marking one of its steepest declines in over a decade.

Ultraviolette Adds to its Growing Network with Second Experience Centre in Kolkata

Kolkata, Mar 31: Ultraviolette Automotive recenty announced the launch of a new UV Space Station in Kolkata, a significant step in expanding its retail footprint across emerging mobility markets in India. The expansion follows a series of recent product and technology milestones, including the launch of the X-47 Crossover, UV Crossfade carbon-fibre helmet, and the company’s recently announced, ‘Battery Flex’ (BaaS) platform. This further emphasises Ultraviolette’s focus on building a comprehensive performance-driven electric mobility ecosystem. With this addition, the company further strengthens customer access to its performance electric motorcycles in Kolkata and reinforces its growing national presence.

The newly established UV Space Station, in partnership with dealer M/s. KGN Automobiles EV, will provide customers a comprehensive experience to explore Ultraviolette‘s performance motorcycles – the X-47 Crossover and F77s. The UV Space Station is designed to offer an immersive experience, including test ride opportunities, sales consultation, and access to a range of motorcycle accessories – all under one roof. The Experience Centre will display the company’s performance motorcycles, the X-47 and F77s. The products redefine electric performance with a powertrain boasting 40.2 hp and 100 Nm of torque, accelerating from 0 to 60 kph in just 2.8 seconds. Equipped with a 10.3 kWh battery, it boasts an IDC range of 323 kms on a single charge.

Commenting on the launch, Narayan Subramaniam, CEO & Co-founder at Ultraviolette, said, “Kolkata is a strategic market for us as we expand our national footprint. The launch of the UV Space Station in Kolkata, our second in the city, marks an important milestone as we strengthen our presence in Eastern India. It reflects a growing, aspirational audience that is increasingly aligned with performance, technology, and design in mobility. This expansion enables us to deepen our engagement with customers while making our products and brand experience more accessible. As Ultraviolette continues to scale across India, our focus remains on building a future-ready, high-quality network that supports the next generation of performance mobility while delivering a truly world-class ownership experience.” 

Built on Ultraviolette’s deep engineering and platform-led innovation, the X-47 Crossover is the world’s first electric motorcycle in its segment that offers radar as a standard, marking a decisive shift in how performance electric motorcycles are designed and experienced. The motorcycle features a rider-focused interface with a 5-inch TFT display, three distinct ride modes, long-travel suspension, and industry-first radial all-terrain tyres, delivering confidence, stability and control across varied riding conditions. 

Advanced safety and intelligence are delivered through Ultraviolette’s UV Radar Intelligence, powered by a 77 GHz rear radar and the UV HyperSense Advanced Rider Assistance System, enabling functions such as blind-spot monitoring, lane change assist, overtake alerts, and rear collision warnings. The X-47 also incorporates the world’s most power-dense air-cooled onboard charger, engineered, developed, and designed in-house by Ultraviolette, alongside an integrated dashcam system. This engineering-led approach has earned recognition across the automotive industry, including honours from leading automotive awards as EV Motorcycle of the Year, reinforcing Ultraviolette’s ambition to build globally competitive electric mobility solutions from India. 

In line with Ultraviolette’s commitment to making advanced electric mobility more accessible, the company recently introduced its ‘Battery Flex’ (BaaS), a flexible ownership model designed to lower entry barriers for performance electric motorcycles while providing customers with greater flexibility in battery usage and ownership. With this new initiative, customers can now own an Ultraviolette X-47 starting at just ₹1,49,000, while subscribing to the battery beginning at just ₹2499 per month. This model allows customers to pay for the bike chassis while financing the battery separately under a steady monthly subscription fee. The initiative further strengthens Ultraviolette’s ecosystem-led approach to accelerating EV adoption in India.

Address of the UV Space Station in Kolkata: 225/2, AJC Bose Road, Minto Park, Kolkata – 700020

Hexnode extends LAPS for macOS, Bringing Automated Password Workflows and Secure Access

Delhi, India, Mar 31: Hexnode today announced the expansion of its Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS), Hexnode LAPS, to macOS. Managed centrally through the Hexnode Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) console, the solution now delivers enterprise-grade local administrator credential security and privileged access safeguards across both Windows and macOS.

By eliminating the reliance on static credentials, siloed account configurations, and directory-tied access models, this expansion allows IT teams to strengthen local administrator security at scale. Furthermore, it directly mitigates the risk of lateral movement across the network by ensuring every endpoint maintains a unique, securely vaulted secret.

Autonomous Local Password Governance   

As device fleets grow, static administrator passwords become a critical vulnerability in endpoint security—especially when left unchanged for long periods or reused across devices.

Hexnode LAPS addresses this risk by automating password rotation and enabling IT teams to apply password standards fleet-wide through centralized policies. Unlike legacy LAPS tools that rely heavily on directory synchronization, Hexnode LAPS is completely directory-independent. This ensures authorized IT administrators can securely retrieve credentials directly from the UEM console, even when devices are off-domain, temporarily disconnected, or operating outside standard corporate setups.

To support compliance and audit efforts, Hexnode LAPS helps IT teams define the exact retention count for previous passwords, balancing the need for audit traceability with the principle of least exposure. By turning password security into policy-driven automation, Hexnode LAPS strengthens compliance readiness while significantly reducing the manual burden on IT.

Scalable Account Provisioning and Access Safeguards

Beyond merely vaulting credentials, IT admins face the operational challenge of governing the fragmented administrator accounts themselves.  While traditional LAPS tools often rotate only the single, default admin account, Hexnode LAPS supports multiple local administrator accounts simultaneously—bringing every necessary contractor, or specialized role under automated governance.

To prevent onboarding delays on freshly provisioned or reset devices, Hexnode LAPS can automatically create missing admin accounts with secure configurations the moment a policy is deployed. Additionally, it maintains governance over built-in administrator accounts, even if they have been renamed or temporarily disabled as part of organizational hardening measures.

To further lock down this workflow, the solution enforces strict post-access controls. It can automatically disable administrator accounts after a specified period of inactivity and trigger an immediate password cycling right after a credential has been viewed, drastically limiting the window of credential exposure.

As organizations continue to strengthen endpoint security across diverse environments, Hexnode remains focused on delivering practical security capabilities that combine secure credential controls, operational simplicity, and cross-platform support.

ENTECH confirms commitment to one price and no fuel surcharges

SYDNEY, 31 March 2026 – With so much volatility and uncertainty around the costs of tradeshows particularly around fuel surcharges ENTECH, the only event for AV and entertainment technology professionals that visits every major population centre in Australia and New Zealand, has officially reaffirmed its, “one cost, all in” policy for all its exhibitors and the fact that it will not implement any fuel surcharges for its 2026 roadshows.

ENTECH trucks on tour

ENTECH CEO Kate McKenzie explained, “We’re aware of increasing industry commentary around diesel supply in Australia and understand that some people and companies may have concerns. This is not completely new territory for us as fuel supply volatility is a known operational risk and it is planned for accordingly.”

ENTECH CEO Kate McKenzie

ENTECH’s major logistics contractor operates a fleet of over 100 trucks nationally and works daily within the commercial bulk diesel supply chain.

McKenzie continued, “During previous periods of constraint, supply has consistently been prioritised toward linehaul operations, which is the category we operate in. Our current market view is that supply remains available, with pricing the primary variable. With that in mind we want to be 100% clear on the ENTECH Roadshow position that there will be no fuel surcharge passed on to exhibitors, all logistics and transport commitments remain fully in place and we will absorb any additional fuel costs required to ensure continuity. As always, exhibiting at ENTECH is at one cost, all in.”

ENTECH have built and grown their roadshows on trust, reliability and delivery and as McKenzie states, that does not change under current conditions.

Each year ENTECH moves national exhibitor freight over 10,500 km across Australia and 2,800 km across New Zealand reliably opening each roadshow on time and on budget whilst delivering millions of meaningful interactions between suppliers, manufacturers, practitioners and distributors of professional audio visual and entertainment technology.

When McKenzie states a “one cost, all in” policy for ENTECH exhibitors it’s worth noting that the cost includes all national road freight, on stand catering, marketing through 32 different media channels, the ENTECH-Connect registration and meeting system, pre-show visibility of registered trade, QR badge scanning and data collection, all power requirements, empty case management, on stand tables and chairs, inclusion in interactive demos, inclusion in a Tech Train during each show and all day barista coffee.

Kate McKenzie concluded, “ENTECH is a family business, established with continuous involvement in the industry since 1973. Over that time, we’ve seen the full arc of technological change from valves to solid state, analogue to digital and from heavy magnet loudspeakers to today’s lightweight rare-earth systems alongside the shift from high-cost, tariff-protected markets to globally competitive supply. Throughout all of these changes ENTECH has consistently championed industry capability, workplace standards and professional development that includes the NW Group ENTECH Theatre program. Whilst ENTECH will always move and keep up with the changing times, our ‘one cost, all in’ policy always remains the same.”

Registration for the Australian and New Zealand ENTECH Roadshows is free and open now.

Register today at: www.entech-roadshow.com

Breaking Records, Building Trust: Property Ka Dhurandhar 2.0 Triumphs Big

Mores has raised the bar for real estate exhibitions with the successful rollout of Property Ka Dhurandhar 2.0, delivering strong sales momentum and high buyer engagement. Anchored on trust, impact, and performance, the event brought together over 20 leading developers under one roof, offering more than 50 residential and commercial projects across varied budgets.

The exhibition witnessed an overwhelming response from homebuyers and investors, resulting in over 180 confirmed bookings and engagement from 500+ serious buyers. Running from 10 AM to 9 PM, the event also stood out for its extended duration, allowing attendees more time to evaluate options, conduct due diligence, and make informed investment decisions.

A key highlight was the surge in demand for studio apartments, reflecting a growing preference for compact, high-yield investment options. With affordability, low maintenance, and strong rental potential, studio units emerged as a top choice among both first-time buyers and seasoned investors. Mores capitalised on this trend by strategically showcasing such offerings, driving significant traction.

Industry observers attribute the event’s success to competitive pricing, a customer-centric approach, and a curated selection of projects. By enabling direct interaction between developers and buyers, the platform fostered transparency and boosted confidence in the property market.

Building on this momentum, Mores is set to launch Property Ka Dhurandhar 2.0 Reloaded, which promises a larger lineup of developers, expanded project offerings, and a sharper focus on high-growth investment opportunities. With rising demand for smart real estate investments, the upcoming edition aims to further enhance value for buyers, investors, and developers alike.

The success of Property Ka Dhurandhar 2.0 underscores how innovation and execution can redefine property buying experiences, positioning Mores as a key player in shaping the future of real estate events.