Operating much higher than conventional aircraft but lower than satellites allows such a platform to combine some characteristics of both. It can continuously observe an area or act as a communications relay while remaining recoverable and reusable.
The development has been disclosed in BDL’s newly released Annual Report for 2025–26, published in September 2026. The state-owned missile manufacturer lists the ASRAAM Final Assembly, Integration and Testing, or FAIT, facility among major infrastructure expansions that have become fully operational.
The Junput facility is planned on approximately 8.73 acres of coastal land near the Bay of Bengal. DRDO had earlier said that the site meets the required safety standards and had received recommendations from both the Central and West Bengal governments as well as approval from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
N3X Labs founder Shrrinath Navghane disclosed the development from Gandhinagar, Gujarat, where the scaled WRATH prototype was undergoing testing. He confirmed that the demonstrator was subsequently destroyed during the test activity, indicating that the company is using experimental hardware as part of the development process.
One of the clearest examples appears in the Khandava-daha Parva of the Adi Parva, within the story of the Sarngaka birds. At the centre of the episode is a mother bird named Jarita, her four helpless young, and their absent father Mandapala. As the Khandava forest burns around them, the family must decide whether to hide, flee, remain together or sacrifice some lives so that others might survive. Their conversation turns a terrifying natural disaster into a meditation on responsibility, foresight and leadership.
Pune-based PadCare Labs is attempting to change that model by treating used sanitary pads as a source of recoverable materials rather than as waste that must simply be destroyed. Founded in 2018 by mechanical engineer and sanitation entrepreneur Ajinkya Dhariya, the company has developed an integrated system covering disposal, collection, transport, disinfection, processing and material recovery. Its central technology separates used sanitary products into reusable cellulose and plastic that can return to productive applications.
The Maharashtra State Gazetteer identifies ancient Vidarbha with the old Berar region together with the eastern districts around Wardha, Nagpur, Chandrapur and Bhandara. It also describes Vidarbha as one of the oldest recorded geographical names associated with Maharashtra.
The South African President said India was expanding rapidly while South Africa was undertaking major reforms across its energy, telecommunications, logistics and water sectors. He invited Indian businesses to participate more extensively in South Africa’s investment and industrial development plans.
The growing relationship was again in focus during Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira’s visit to New Delhi for the 18th BRICS Summit, where he met External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on September 11, 2026.
The meeting marked another step in the gradual stabilisation of bilateral relations following Modi and Xi’s previous meeting in Tianjin in August 2025. Both leaders welcomed what they described as steady progress in relations since that interaction and agreed that India and China should approach their ties from a strategic and long-term perspective.
