The concept is aimed at Suppression of Enemy Air Defences, or SEAD, missions, where expendable drones can be used to complicate an adversary’s radar picture, draw attention away from manned aircraft and potentially force air-defence units to reveal their positions.
HAL provided the clearest official update on the programme during its investor interaction on May 15, 2026. Asked whether HTT-40 deliveries would begin in FY2026-27 or FY2027-28, company management replied that deliveries would start in FY2026-27.
India supplied Sri Lanka with 24 L70 air-defence guns between 2000 and 2006. According to Herath, India has subsequently provided free maintenance support for 18 of those weapons. The proposed arrangement will extend similar support to the remaining six guns.
Unlike mainland India, the archipelago does not operate as one interconnected grid. Individual islands and groups of islands depend on separate generating systems because they are separated by large stretches of sea. The Nicobar district administration notes that this geography prevents the existence of a single electricity grid serving the entire territory.
Peskov made the comments during a virtual interaction with Indian journalists on September 8, ahead of talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi.
Traditional dental implants consist of three components: a fixture embedded in the jawbone, an abutment connecting the fixture and crown, and the crown itself. These multi-component assemblies are susceptible to micromovements at the abutment interface, which can compromise osseointegration and lead to implant loosening.
The Indian delegation was led by Ramesh Kumar Pandey, Additional Director General of Forests in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, while the Japanese side was headed by Shimizu Kotaro, Deputy Director General of Japan’s Forestry Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
Dronathon 2026 will focus on surveillance and reconnaissance, autonomous operations, swarm technologies and electronic warfare. Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems will also form a major part of the programme as armed forces increasingly confront the challenge posed by small, low-cost and expendable drones.
The Financial Fraud Risk Indicator, or FRI, was introduced on May 22, 2025 under the Department of Telecommunications’ Digital Intelligence Platform. It provides banks and other financial institutions with real-time risk information linked to mobile numbers that may be associated with cybercrime or financial fraud.
The system developed by researchers from ICAR-NRC on Mithun, working with NIT Nagaland, Nagaland University and CHRIST (Deemed to be University), uses computer vision to recognise four important behaviours: feeding, standing, lying and mounting.
