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…
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…
Saudi Arabia Bus Fire: A routine overnight journey between two holy cities turned into one of the deadliest overseas tragedies involving Indian pilgrims in recent years. In the early hours of Monday, 17 November 2025, a passenger bus carrying Indian Umrah pilgrims from Mecca to Medina collided with a diesel tanker near a location identified…
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…
Global AI Race 2026: As we move into 2026, the global race for artificial intelligence supremacy has entered a critical phase. This competition is no longer just about breakthroughs in models — it’s about infrastructure, energy supply, and geopolitical strategy. The United States continues to grab headlines for its research leadership and cutting-edge AI labs….
Small-Sat Boom: According to BryceTech’s Smallsats by the Numbers 2024, 2,860 small satellites (≤1,200 kg) were launched in 2023, making up 97% of all spacecraft launched that year. Over 2014–2023, smallsats represented 93% of spacecraft by count and 41% of upmass. Market forecasts see the global small-satellite segment growing from about USD 6.0 billion in…