June 22, 2026

Kautilya

Economy

India Sets Its Textile Ambition: From Cotton Fields to a $100 Billion Export Powerhouse

India already has a strong foundation. It is the sixth-largest textile exporter in the world, contributes around 2.3% to GDP, accounts for nearly 12% of India’s total export earnings, and supports close to six crore livelihoods directly and indirectly. This makes textiles one of the rare sectors where India’s export ambition is directly linked to mass employment, rural incomes, MSMEs, women’s work participation and industrial growth.

By Kautilya / May 28, 2026
Vidya

IISc Semiconductor Training Programme Sees Tribal Youth Participation Surge Over Fivefold Across India

The programme is being implemented by IISc Bengaluru in collaboration with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, with support from MY Bharat under the Department of Youth Affairs. It is coordinated through the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering at IISc, one of India’s important advanced research centres in nanotechnology and semiconductor-related fields. The aim is to expose tribal students and faculty members to semiconductor fabrication, nanoengineering processes and emerging technologies — areas that are central to India’s long-term technology workforce.

By Kautilya / May 28, 2026
Economy Governance Intervention

PM-AJAY Goes Digital: New Portal and Mobile App Aim to Strengthen Delivery of SC Welfare Schemes

The AJAY Mobile App is particularly important because it takes the scheme closer to the field. Welfare programmes often depend on village-level surveys, local planning, physical inspections, beneficiary identification and progress verification. When these steps remain paper-heavy, implementation can become slow and difficult to monitor. The new app allows field functionaries to carry out planning, reporting, inspections, photo uploads and updates through a mobile interface, giving administrators a clearer view of what is happening on the ground.

By Kautilya / May 28, 2026
Research

India’s CLEAR Breakthrough Could Transform Protein Imaging for Cancer and Neurological Research

Traditional immunofluorescence imaging has been one of the most useful tools for studying proteins in their natural cellular environment. Its limitation, however, has been multiplexing capacity. Conventional methods are usually restricted to around four or five protein targets because different fluorescent dyes overlap spectrally and become difficult to separate cleanly. The CLEAR platform tackles this bottleneck by allowing the same sample to be labelled, imaged, erased and labelled again in repeated cycles.

By Kautilya / May 28, 2026
Defense

India Opens ₹15,000 Crore AMCA Race as Indigenous Stealth Fighter Programme Enters Decisive Industry Phase

The AMCA is more than another aircraft project. It is India’s attempt to enter the small league of nations capable of designing, testing and producing a stealth combat aircraft with advanced sensors, internal weapons carriage, network-centric operations and survivability against modern air defence systems. For the Indian Air Force, the aircraft is expected to become a major pillar of combat capability from the mid-2030s, when legacy fleets will be under pressure and regional air warfare will be shaped increasingly by stealth aircraft, long-range weapons, unmanned systems and electronic warfare.

By Kautilya / May 27, 2026
Economy Infrastructure

BSNL’s Turnaround Story: Indigenous 4G, Rising Revenue and the Return of India’s Public Telecom Network

According to the Minister, the revival effort began by identifying practical problem areas: work culture, tower condition and outdated infrastructure. In states such as Andhra Pradesh, tower uptime was earlier around 75%, and the target was raised to 95%. BSNL replaced 50,000 batteries across 50,000 towers, upgraded power plants and replaced ageing cables to improve service reliability.

By Kautilya / May 27, 2026
Economy

India Post’s Revenue Touches ₹15,373 Crore as the Postal Network Reinvents Itself for Digital India

The biggest technology push is coming through the ₹5,800 crore Advanced Postal Technology initiative under IT 2.0. The goal is to create a seamless, end-to-end digital postal system where citizens can buy savings instruments, purchase insurance products such as Postal Life Insurance and Rural Postal Life Insurance, download digital certificates and receive matured policy payments directly into bank accounts without visiting a post office.

By Kautilya / May 27, 2026
Economy Infrastructure

PAIMANA Tracks 1,981 Central Infrastructure Projects Worth ₹42.78 Lakh Crore as India Sharpens Project Monitoring

A large share of the monitored projects is already at an advanced stage. Around 801 projects, or roughly 40%, have achieved more than 80% physical progress, while 277 projects, or about 14%, have crossed 80% financial completion. This is a crucial indicator because it shows that a significant portion of the infrastructure pipeline is moving towards completion, while another group of newly started projects is entering the implementation cycle.

By Kautilya / May 27, 2026
Economy Infrastructure

India’s Telecom Market Crosses 1.33 Billion Subscribers as Broadband Becomes the Core of Digital Growth

The data reveals a clear pattern: India’s telecom story is now overwhelmingly wireless-led, broadband-heavy and increasingly shaped by digital demand beyond voice calling. Out of the total subscriber base, wireless connections accounted for 1,288.96 million, while wireline connections stood at 48.58 million. Wireless services contributed around 95% of the net subscriber additions during April, showing that mobile connectivity remains the main engine of India’s communication economy.

By Kautilya / May 27, 2026