India Climate-Tech Race is becoming increasingly important as the idea of planetary health—“the health of human civilization and the natural systems it depends on”—moves from academic circles into boardrooms, ministries, and startup pitch decks. A new report, summarised by platforms like Net Zero Compare and Mongabay, identifies ten emerging technologies that could help maintain safe…
Lava Agni 4 Launching on November 20, and the company is gearing up for one of its most anticipated smartphone releases. Serving as the successor to the Agni 3, the new model introduces a refined metal frame, a pill-shaped dual-camera setup, and a modern flat display design. Alongside this, Lava has rolled out its unique…
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…
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…
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…
KEO launch: In a first-of-its-kind move by any Indian state, Karnataka has launched KEO, a compact, affordable and AI-ready personal computer designed and developed entirely within the state to bridge the digital access gap. Announced by IT & BT Minister Priyank Kharge at the curtain-raiser for Bengaluru Tech Summit (BTS) 2025, KEO (Knowledge-driven, Economical, Open-source)…
India’s human spaceflight ambitions received a sharper strategic contour at the CSIR-ISRO Space Meet 2025, held on 17 November 2025 at Hotel Radisson Blu Atria, Bengaluru. Delivering a comprehensive address, Dr V. Narayanan, Secretary, Department of Space & Chairman, ISRO, set the overarching direction for India’s journey from Gaganyaan to future crewed missions, stressing that…
Digital Privacy & Data Protection: In 2026, digital privacy has become one of the most contested arenas in global policy. As data flows become more integral to daily life, countries are racing to define who controls it and how it can be used. The European Union continues to enforce one of the world’s strictest data…