IAF’s DRONATHON puts indigenous drones and counter-drone systems to an operational test
The initiative brings domestic unmanned and counter-UAS technologies closer to real military requirements rather than laboratory demonstrations alone.
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Houthi attacks on Saudi energy facilities put oil security back on India’s radar
Attacks across Saudi cities injured dozens and disrupted energy facilities, adding another layer of risk to already elevated crude prices.
Allahabad High Court turns an NSA case into a lesson on administrative accountability
The court’s response to a preventive-detention case goes beyond release: it targets personal accountability for the use of extraordinary state power.
Defence procurement worth ₹1.10 lakh crore puts indigenisation back at the centre
About 98% of the proposals cleared in principle are expected to be sourced from Indian industry, linking military modernisation with defence manufacturing policy.
India’s next EV challenge is freight, not just cars
NITI Aayog’s new PACT platform and Zero Emission Truck Marketplace are designed to solve a difficult problem: making clean trucking commercially scalable.
DGFT has opened Certificate of Origin systems to business software. Why that matters for trade
The Open API can reduce duplicate data entry for exporters and is a useful case study in digital public administration and trade facilitation.
Border villages are being treated as security infrastructure. The logic behind VVP
VVP-I and VVP-II together carry a ₹11,639 crore outlay, linking connectivity and livelihoods with the strategic goal of sustaining populated border communities.
Allahabad High Court’s NSA ruling is a lesson in preventive detention and constitutional limits
The court quashed a student activist’s detention and ordered compensation, putting executive accountability and the right to peaceful dissent back in focus.
Unacademy sold for $206 million. In 2021, it was worth $3.44 billion
upGrad has acquired the edtech company in an all-stock deal. The price captures how sharply India’s pandemic-era edtech boom was repriced.
India wants its official systems to run on one clock
New Legal Metrology rules make IST the common reference for legal, administrative and commercial systems. The change takes effect after 180 days.
UPI could have reached deeper into Asia. India stopped the Alipay+ link
A proposed cross-border payments connection ran into the hardest question in digital infrastructure: how much convenience is worth giving up control over financial data?
IT hiring is coming back. The mix of jobs has changed
Active demand in IT services has reached about 57,000 roles, an 18-month high. Nearly 60% of the openings are for mid-senior and senior talent.
India has put its first imaging satellite into geosynchronous orbit
EOS-05 is designed to watch large areas for longer, changing how India can monitor weather, disasters, agriculture and the ground below.
India wants 100 GW of nuclear power. That creates a uranium problem
An elevenfold expansion in nuclear capacity will require far more than reactors. India is now widening fuel relationships from Australia to Uzbekistan.
US judge rules Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklisting unlawful
The ruling found unlawful retaliation and due-process failures in the Pentagon’s treatment of the AI company.
More than 100 companies call for a defensive surge against AI-driven cyberattacks
OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and others warned that AI-enabled hacking could become far more widespread in the coming months.