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Drone Kavach Exercise: Indiaโ€™s Leap into Next-Generation Drone Warfare

Drone Kavach Exercise: Indiaโ€™s Leap into Next-Generation Drone Warfare

From 25โ€“28 September 2025, the Indian Armyโ€™s Spear Corps conducted Exercise Drone Kavach in Arunachal Pradesh, showcasing AI-enabled drones, swarm...

False Smut Infestation in Paddy: Causes, Impact, and Management

False Smut Infestation in Paddy: Causes, Impact, and Management

False smut, a fungal rice disease in Punjab, spread due to rains disrupting spraying. Learn its causes, impact on yield,...

Governmentโ€™s EV Localisation Scheme (SPMEPCI): Challenges, Industry Response & Future

Governmentโ€™s EV Localisation Scheme (SPMEPCI): Challenges, Industry Response & Future

Indiaโ€™s EV localisation scheme, SPMEPCI, offers duty concessions to automakers committing to domestic manufacturing. Yet, months after launch, no global...

Mini-Moons and Quasi-Moons: Earthโ€™s Lesser-Known Companions

Mini-Moons and Quasi-Moons: Earthโ€™s Lesser-Known Companions

Explore mini-moons and quasi-moons โ€” temporary companions of Earth. Learn their significance for science, planetary defence, and future space exploration....

Chinaโ€™s Space Surveillance: Strategic Challenge for India

Chinaโ€™s Space Surveillance: Strategic Challenge for India

Explore Chinaโ€™s advanced space-based surveillance systemโ€”Yaogan, Gaofen, SAR, ELINTโ€”and its strategic implications for India and the Indo-Pacific. Introduction Chinaโ€™s rapid...

Indiaโ€™s Nuclear Energy Sector Reforms

Indiaโ€™s Nuclear Energy Sector Reforms

India plans to expand nuclear energy to 100 GW by 2047. Explore legal reforms, PPP models, thorium strategy, SMRs, and...

New H-1B Visa Fee Policy

New H-1B Visa Fee Policy

The U.S. $100,000 H-1B visa fee disrupts Indian IT firms and professionals but could boost GCC expansion, domestic innovation, and...

CAGโ€™s AI & Remote Auditing: Digital Accountability

CAGโ€™s AI & Remote Auditing: Digital Accountability

Explore how CAGโ€™s AI, remote audits, and digital platforms enhance efficiency, transparency, and citizen accountability in Indiaโ€™s fiscal governance. Context...

Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in India

Context: AMR poses a grave health threat in India, with superbugs resisting last-resort antibiotics. ICMRโ€™s call to restrict new antibiotic...

Unseen Labour: The Human Cost of Artificial Intelligence

AI runs on hidden human labour. Ghost workers face low pay, harsh conditions, and exploitationโ€”demanding urgent ethical reforms. This blog...

INS Androth

NAVY GETS ANTI-SUBMARINE SHIP Context: The Indian Navy has inducted INS Androth, an indigenously built anti-submarine warfare ship, enhancing its...

NASAโ€™s Perseverance & the Search for Life

Context: The recent findings from NASAโ€™s Perseverance roverโ€”potential biosignatures in Martian rocks like Cheyava Fallsโ€”mark a watershed moment in planetary...

India: GENIUS Act or Digital Rupee?

Explore how the US GENIUS Act pushes dollar-backed stablecoins and India counters with its Digital Rupee and UPI strategy. Introduction...

Nuclear Fusion: Bottling a Star on Earth

Context: Nuclear fusionโ€”the process that powers the sunโ€”is humanityโ€™s most ambitious energy dream. It promises clean, limitless, and safe power,...

Deepfake Technology

Context: The viral video of Burkina Fasoโ€™s president signing a $14 billion deal with India and criticising U.S. President Donald...

Quantum Technology in Healthcare Sector

Context: Researchers at the University of Tokyo discovered โ€œgold quantum needlesโ€, a novel elongated nanocluster structure responsive to near-infrared light....

Chinaโ€™s Robot Wolves: Major Implications for Indiaโ€™s Security Preparedness

Context: Chinaโ€™s unveiling of weaponised โ€œrobot wolvesโ€ at its 2025 military parade mark a leap in manโ€“machine warfare using AI...

ASEAN+3 and Asiaโ€™s AI Future: Unlocking Strategic Resilience in a Turbulent World

Context: In the backdrop of escalating US trade protectionism under Donald Trumpโ€™s second term, ASEAN+3 is reviving its cooperative agenda...

Indiaโ€™s Third Path in the Global AI Race

Amid the Global AI race and India must chart its own courseโ€”leveraging DPI, ethics, and frugal innovation for global leadership....

Spyware & GRAPHITE

Context: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reactivated a controversial contract with Paragon Solutions, granting it access to...

Vikram-32 Chip

What is Vikram-32 chip, Indiaโ€™s first indigenous space processor? Context: On September 2, 2025, at the Semicon India 2025 conference,...

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