Science & Technology
Space, defence tech, biotechnology and digital infrastructure
Exclusive: What Rafale plan looks like—TATA, L&T, Mahindra and HAL
France submitted a detailed industrial partnership proposal in response to India's plan to acquire 114 additional Rafale fighter aircraft, received on the In...
Astrobase unveils 800kN rocket engine, eyes reusability
A Bengaluru-based private space company unveiled an 800 kN-class liquid oxygen-methane rocket engine, described as India's first privately developed Full-Flo...
US, India expanding cooperation in defence, civil nuclear sector: Senior US official
A senior US official stated that the United States and India are expanding cooperation in the defence and civil nuclear sectors, alongside the adoption of tr...
MNRE weighs support scheme for polysilicon to back 10 GW capacity in solar manufacturing
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is examining a dedicated support scheme to build domestic polysilicon manufacturing capacity of more than 10 ...
India’s first privately-built 800 kN FFSC engine unveiled
A Bengaluru-based private space company publicly unveiled India's first privately-built 800 kilonewton (kN) Full-Flow Staged Combustion (FFSC) rocket engine,...
Supreme Court seeks Centre's response on pleas challenging data protection law
The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Union government seeking its response on a batch of petitions challenging provisions of the Digital Personal Data ...
First mRNA flu shot approved by FDA bodes well for improving drugs of the future
The US Food and Drug Administration approved the first messenger RNA (mRNA)-based seasonal influenza vaccine on August 5, 2026 The vaccine received standard ...
Space Wrap: Historic Vikram-1 launch puts Indian spaceflight back on track
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, on July 18, 2026, becoming the first privately developed Ind...
Govt tightens rules on AI-generated content, cuts removal deadline to 3 hours from 36 & mandates labels
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology amended the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021...
Govt backs 20 indigenous AI models, clears 58 centres of excellence
The government has extended support to 20 indigenous AI foundation model proposals under the IndiaAI Mission, spanning Large Multimodal Models and Small Lang...
Decoding CAFE-III norms for cars: How technical loopholes weaken the norms and slow down zero-emission transition
Draft CAFE-III (Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency, Phase III) norms for passenger vehicles were circulated, to take effect from April 1, 2027 and run through...
India, Russia target $100 billion bilateral trade by 2030, continuing energy cooperation: Ambassador Vinay Kumar
India's Ambassador to Russia stated that both countries are working toward a bilateral trade target of USD 100 billion by 2030, a target set at the leadershi...
Navigation sat NVS-03 ready for launch, 3 more satellites to follow: Space min Jitendra Singh in LS
The Minister of State for the Department of Space informed the Lok Sabha that the NVS-03 navigation satellite is ready for launch, with two more satellites, ...
‘Ghost particles’ signature can track where spent nuclear fuel goes
Researchers have experimentally confirmed that spent nuclear fuel and shut-down reactor cores continue emitting a measurable flux of antineutrinos ("ghost pa...
Rooftop solar scheme crosses 50-lakh household mark
The PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana crossed 50 lakh (5 million) rooftop solar household installations, with a cumulative 14.8 GW of rooftop capacity commiss...
ICAR develops indigenous vaccine for African swine fever
Scientists at the ICAR-National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (ICAR-NIHSAD), Bhopal, developed India's first indigenous live attenuated vaccine ...
Big clean energy milestone: NPCIL cumulatively generates over 1,000 bn units of N-power, avoids 860 million tons of CO2 emissions
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) crossed a cumulative generation milestone of over 1,000 billion units (BU) of electricity since operat...
PM Surya Ghar achieves 5 million rooftop solar installations
The PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana crossed 50 lakh (5 million) rooftop solar installations, with July 2026 recording the highest-ever monthly addition The ...
Indian farmers may grow world’s first gene edited rice variety this winter
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding with a US-based agribusiness firm that holds a license f...
ICAR develops India’s first fully annotated T2T genome of pigeonpea variety Asha
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) developed a fully annotated telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assembly of the pigeonpea (arhar/tur) variet...