Bearys Group wins prestigious "Sword of Honour" award from British Safety Council London
Bengaluru: Bearys Group has received the prestigious Sword of Honour from the British Safety Council for the NTT Global Data Centre in Ambattur, Chennai, a facility developed by the company.
The award, regarded as one of the highest international recognitions for workplace safety, health and environmental management, was presented at a ceremony held on 28 November 2025 at Drapers’ Hall in London. Founder Syed Mohamed Beary and GM (Quality & HSE) Balasubramanian received the honour on behalf of the Bearys group.
The Sword of Honour is awarded only to organisations that secure a Five-Star rating in the British Safety Council’s comprehensive Health and Safety Audit and subsequently demonstrate exceptional performance in the adjudication process. With this recognition, the NTT Chennai project now joins a select group of facilities worldwide that have met these stringent standards.
In a statement, Bearys Group said the award reaffirms its commitment to maintaining safe and sustainable work environments. The company described the achievement as an acknowledgement of its efforts to ensure worker safety, promote environmental responsibility and deliver projects that meet global benchmarks for operational excellence.
The Group also noted that the recognition strengthens its longstanding partnership with NTT Global and reflects shared priorities in innovation, responsible development and adherence to international best practices.
Founder Syed Mohamed Beary said the honour motivates the organisation to continue upholding high safety standards across all construction sites, adding that safety is not just a compliance measure but a moral responsibility for the company.
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Ambani, Adani pledge USD 210 bn for India's AI push
New Delhi (PTI): Conglomerates run by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani committed USD 210 billion investment to creating infrastructure that will help India emerge as an AI development hub.
At the India AI Impact Summit, Ambani announced a Rs 10 lakh crore (about USD 110 billion) investment in artificial intelligence over the next seven years in gigawatt-scale AI-ready data centres in Jamnagar, leveraging up to 10 GW of green power surplus, and a nationwide edge-compute layer integrated with telecom and digital operator Jio's networks to deliver low-latency AI across India.
"Our resolve is clear: make intelligence as ubiquitous as connectivity," he said. "When compute becomes infrastructure, innovation will become inevitable."
Adani, on the other hand, unveiled a USD 100-billion investment to develop renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centres by 2035 -- one of the world's largest integrated energy-compute commitments.
The initiative is expected to catalyse an additional USD 150 billion across server manufacturing, cloud platforms, and supporting industries, creating a projected USD 250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India.
India must architect its own artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure rather than rely on imports, Adani Group executive director Jeet Adani said on Thursday, warning that AI will redefine national sovereignty.
Other major investments announced at the Summit included USD 50 billion commitment by Microsoft by the end of the decade to expand artificial intelligence access across the Global South. "India, not surprisingly, is one of the largest," its vice chair and president, Brad Smith, said.
The firm had unveiled USD 17.5 billion investment in AI investments in India last year.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new subsea cable initiative to boost AI connectivity between India, the US and other locations, alongside partnerships for cloud infrastructure platform support to over 20 million public servants across 800 districts.
Yotta Data Services, backed by a real estate group headed by Niranjan Hiranandani, announced over USD 2 billion spend on Nvidia's latest chips in an artificial intelligence computing hub it is setting up just outside the national capital.
While Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) signed up ChatGPT parent OpenAI as its first customer for its data centre unit under the global AI infrastructure initiative Stargate, infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro announced a proposed venture with Nvidia to build AI-ready data centre infrastructure, advanced computing platforms, and ecosystem enablement required to support large-scale AI workloads.
