President Droupadi Murmu today conferred the 6th National Water Awards 2024 at a national ceremony in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The awards, instituted by the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, recognised 46 winners across 10 categories for outstanding work in water conservation, efficient use, recharge…
Electric vehicle market are in a moment of rapid transition. Market disruptions — from geopolitical supply-chain strains and semiconductor shortages to shifting consumer sentiment — are colliding with breakthrough battery announcements that promise faster charging, longer life, and new chemistries. Solid-state validations, growth in sodium-ion and flow batteries, and large industrial moves toward battery swapping…
4th AMRO Forum: The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) is set to host the 4th ASEAN+3 Economic Cooperation and Financial Stability Forum (AMRO Forum) on Tuesday, November 25, 2025 (09:00–15:00 HKT/GMT+8), in hybrid format from Hong Kong, China. Co-organized with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the forum…
Gujarat DGP Verification Drive: Gujarat has launched one of its most aggressive security audits in recent years. State Director General of Police (DGP) Vikas Sahay has directed all police stations to identify and verify every individual booked for “anti-national activities” in the last 30 years, and to submit a consolidated dossier within 100 hours. The…
India’s AI-Driven Foreign Policy: On Monday, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs held a dedicated sitting to hear senior Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) officials brief MPs on India’s tech diplomacy from cyberspace governance and AI norms to outer-space cooperation. Committee chair Shashi Tharoor said 17 members attended and “a number of probing questions…
Please update Arattai: Zoho’s homegrown messaging app Arattai is rolling out what founder Sridhar Vembu calls one of its biggest security upgrades—mandatory end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for one-to-one chats. In a detailed post on X, Vembu urged users to update Arattai from the Play Store/App Store and encourage their contacts to do the same, stating that…
Digital Payments Growth: India’s long-talked-about cashless economy is no longer just a slogan – RBI numbers now show it in hard data. A new Payment System Report (June 2025) from the Reserve Bank of India reveals that in calendar year 2024, digital payment transactions accounted for 99.7% of all payments by volume and 97.5% by…
LPG Import Deal: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced that public sector oil companies have concluded a one-year term contract to import around 2.2 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of LPG from the US Gulf Coast for the contract year 2026—equivalent to about 10% of India’s annual LPG imports. The government…
CISF Foils Knife Attack: A potential late-night crime at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) was averted thanks to the quick reaction of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel. Around midnight on 16 November 2025, a man armed with a long metal knife allegedly ran towards two taxi drivers near the Terminal 1 arrival lane. Within…
Supercomputing Centers: NVIDIA is turning its quantum–classical “bridge” from concept into deployed infrastructure. At the SC25 supercomputing conference in St. Louis, the company announced that more than a dozen leading scientific supercomputing centers and national laboratories worldwide are adopting NVIDIA NVQLink™, described as a first-of-its-kind, open, universal interconnect linking quantum processors with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing…