Satyavati and the Fish
Adrika belonged to the radiant company of celestial maidens who danced in the courts of the gods. Her beauty was like moonlight upon moving water, and her laughter was said to resemble the music of silver bells.
Kautilya
Sheshnaag-150: India’s 1,000-km Swarming Deep-Strike Drone Takes Shape
Sheshnaag-150 forms part of a broader family of collaborative unmanned attack systems being developed by NewSpace under what the company calls its Fused Teaming with Uncrewed Rapid Effects, or FUTURE, initiative.
India Pushes Coastal Shipping and Inland Waterways as National Waterway Cargo Hits 218 Million Tonnes
Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal, in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, said the government is pursuing a combination of infrastructure development, fiscal incentives and regulatory reforms to strengthen coastal and inland water transport.
RailOne Crosses 4.76 Crore Downloads, Handles 10 Lakh Ticket Bookings Daily
The app combines major passenger services on one digital platform. These include reserved tickets, unreserved tickets, platform tickets, train enquiries, PNR status and RailMadad.
Kaveri 2.0: India Revives Its Indigenous Fighter Jet Engine Ambition
By 2021, nine complete prototype engines and four core engines had been built, while the programme had accumulated 3,217 hours of engine testing. Kaveri underwent altitude tests and was also flown aboard an Il-76 Flying Test Bed, making it the first indigenously developed Indian military gas-turbine engine to undergo such flight testing.
Sea6 Energy: The Indian Deep-Tech Company Mechanising Farming in the Ocean
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Bengaluru, Sea6 Energy describes its long-term objective as building large-scale ocean agriculture and using cultivated marine biomass as a renewable industrial raw material.
Videha or Mithila in the Mahabharata: The Ancient Kingdom of Janaka Across Northern Bihar and Nepal’s Terai
Mithila was remembered as the kingdom of Janaka and Sita in the Ramayana, as a centre of philosophical debate and learning in Vedic and Upanishadic tradition, and again in the Mahabharata as a land where questions of dharma, renunciation, kingship and liberation were explored through some of the epic’s most remarkable narratives.
India Renews ‘One Herb, One Standard’ Initiative to Strengthen Quality of Traditional Medicines
The renewed partnership seeks to develop uniform, scientifically robust and reliable quality standards for medicinal plants used as single drugs across Ayurveda, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa, Unani and Homoeopathy. The initiative is intended to address a long-standing challenge in which the same botanical material may be described, tested or standardised differently across various medicinal systems.
Deoni Cattle: The Powerful Dual-Purpose Breed of Maharashtra and Karnataka
The breed is principally associated with the Marathwada region of Maharashtra and adjoining northern Karnataka, particularly the wider belt around Latur and Bidar. ICAR’s National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources officially identifies Maharashtra and Karnataka as the home tract of Deoni cattle.
AI Uncovers Hidden Cancer Stem Cells responsible for Tumour Recurrence
Cancer remains one of humanity’s greatest medical challenges. Although modern treatments can destroy millions of cancer cells, a small population of cells often survives, allowing tumours to return, spread to distant organs and develop resistance to therapy.