Kautilya

India Commissions 51st Doppler Weather Radar at Sambalpur, Plans Around 40 More Under Mission Mausam

Union Minister of State for Earth Sciences Dr. Jitendra Singh virtually inaugurated the new radar on September 17 in the presence of Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi. The installation is expected to improve monitoring of thunderstorms, heavy rainfall, lightning and other significant weather systems across western Odisha and neighbouring regions.

D-Propulse: The Indian Startup Developing Rotating Detonation Engines for the Next Generation of High-Speed Flight

D-Propulse ultimately wants its technology to power high-supersonic and hypersonic defence systems, unmanned aircraft and potentially future space-access platforms. Its ambition is considerably larger than the prototype demonstrated today, but the July test establishes that the company has already moved beyond simulations and small laboratory experiments into integrated propulsion hardware.

Kalinga — The Eastern Kingdom Between Mahendra and the Sea

The Mahabharata does not treat Kalinga as an obscure territory at the edge of the known world. It repeatedly names the Kalingas among the established peoples and kingdoms of Bharata, places Kalinga within important eastern political networks, describes its rulers participating in great royal gatherings and, eventually, portrays its army fighting with formidable strength on the field of Kurukshetra. Kalinga was therefore part of the epic’s political geography as a recognisable and important eastern realm.