AI-Powered Drone ‘Kaal Bhairav’ from India Wins Silver at ARCA Innovation Awards 2025

AI-Powered Drone ‘Kaal Bhairav’ from India Wins Silver at ARCA Innovation Awards 2025

AI-Powered Drone ‘Kaal Bhairav’: In a historic moment for India’s defence technology and innovation ecosystem, the AI-powered combat drone named ‘Kaal Bhairav’, designed and built indigenously, has won Silver Medal at the ARCA International Innovation Exhibition 2025, held in Zagreb, Croatia. The award, presented by the Croatian Union of Innovators, recognizes cutting-edge innovations across the…

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UPI’s New Superpowers in 2025: Credit Lines, RuPay Credit at QR, UPI-ATM, UAE Acceptance, MDR Rules & the e-Rupee

UPI’s New Superpowers in 2025: Credit Lines, RuPay Credit at QR, UPI-ATM, UAE Acceptance, MDR Rules & the e-Rupee—All from Official Sources

UPI’s New Superpowers: UPI’s arc in 2025 is about credit and convenience—not just pay-now. The RBI has allowed pre-sanctioned credit lines to be used on UPI; NPCI has productized it as Credit Line on UPI. RuPay credit cards can be used on UPI QR at merchants; UPI-ATM brings cardless cash at participating ATMs; UAE shops…

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Vande Bharat Sleeper 2025–26: Trials, Launch Window, Safety, Routes & Passenger Guide

Vande Bharat Sleeper 2025–26: Trials, Launch Window, Safety, Routes & Passenger Guide—All From Official Sources

India’s Vande Bharat Sleeper is moving from prototype to rollout. In November 2025, the trainset hit 180 km/h during high-speed, loaded trials in the Kota division under RDSO supervision—an important milestone before passenger service. The Railway Minister has indicated a launch after the second rake is ready for operations, while PIB notes a 2025 production…

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IndiaAI Mission in 2025: Compute, Datasets, Governance—and a Field Guide for Founders

IndiaAI Mission in 2025: Compute, Datasets, Governance—and a Field Guide for Founders, Researchers and CIOs

IndiaAI Mission in 2025: India’s AI build-out is entering an execution phase. The Cabinet’s IndiaAI Mission allocation of ₹10,372 crore (five years) has translated into national GPU capacity, a data/models platform (AIKosha), funding pathways for foundation models, and fresh AI Governance Guidelines to keep deployments safe and fair. For teams deciding whether—and how—to plug in,…

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Gaganyaan in 2025: Flight Windows, Crew Timeline, Vehicles, Tests, Safety & Recovery

Gaganyaan in 2025: Flight Windows, Crew Timeline, Vehicles, Tests, Safety & Recovery—A Fully Sourced Field Guide

Gaganyaan in 2025: India’s Gaganyaan programme has moved from concept to final-phase execution in 2025. The government’s latest brief sets a crew mission target of the first quarter of 2027, preceded by an uncrewed orbital mission whose window opens in late 2025, with Vyommitra aboard as a test payload. Along the way, ISRO has ticked…

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India’s Chip Big-Bang: Dholera’s 28nm Fab, Jewar’s New Unit, Sanand’s OSAT

India’s Chip Big-Bang: Dholera’s 28nm Fab, Jewar’s New Unit, Sanand’s OSAT—and the 2025 Playbook with Official Sources

India’s Chip Big-Bang: India’s semiconductor story accelerated in 2024–25 from intent to implement. The Union Cabinet cleared three units in February 2024—including Tata–PSMC’s 28nm fab at Dholera and two ATMP/OSAT facilities—and later approved a sixth unit in May 2025: HCL–Foxconn near Jewar. In parallel, Micron’s OSAT campus at Sanand advanced, and CG Power–Renesas launched a…

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UPI Goes Global: Malaysia Acceptance, PayPal World Link, and NRI UPI on Foreign SIMs

UPI Goes Global: Malaysia Acceptance, PayPal World Link, and NRI UPI on Foreign SIMs—A 2025 Explainer with Official Sources

UPI Goes Global: India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has moved decisively beyond home turf in 2025. The headline: UPI is being accepted in Malaysia through NIPL–Razorpay Curlec, joining a growing club of destinations (France, Singapore, UAE, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Qatar, and more). In parallel, PayPal World announced an upcoming link to UPI, while NRIs can…

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Sustainable Innovations: Climate Tech Shaping a Greener 2026

Sustainable Innovations: Climate Tech Shaping a Greener 2026

Sustainable Innovations: The race to limit climate change is now powered by a new generation of climate tech — practical innovations that move beyond lab demos into real-world impact. From utility-scale green hydrogen projects and advanced battery chemistries to AI-managed grids and biodegradable computing prototypes, 2026 promises rapid deployment and wider consumer adoption. This post…

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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Enhanced by NTT’s Advanced Remote Video Monitoring Standard

Level 4 Autonomous Driving Enhanced by NTT’s Advanced Remote Video Monitoring Standard

Level 4 Autonomous Driving: In a crucial development for autonomous mobility and remote‑vehicle oversight, Japanese technology giant NTT, Inc. has announced that it has developed a “Parametric object‑recognition‑ratio­‑estimation model” to assess whether video transmitted from an autonomous vehicle to a remote control station is of sufficient quality to reliably detect objects in front of the…

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Elon Musk Proposes Tesla’s Optimus Robots to Eliminate Global Poverty via Universal Basic Income

Elon Musk Proposes Tesla’s Optimus Robots to Eliminate Global Poverty via Universal Basic Income

Tesla’s Optimus Robots: Tech mogul Elon Musk has once again stirred global discourse with a futuristic proposal to eliminate poverty: deploy Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus for labor-intensive tasks while humans receive a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Speaking at the latest AI and robotics showcase, Musk argued that the convergence of automation, artificial intelligence, and sustainable…

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