Incubated at IIT Kanpur, Offgrid has developed a proprietary zinc-bromide battery platform called ZincGel®. The technology is designed to store electricity for roughly six to sixteen hours without using lithium, cobalt, nickel or rare-earth materials.
The event takes place after the destruction of the Yadava clan at Prabhasa. Krishna had already witnessed the fulfilment of the curse that brought ruin upon his own people, seen Balarama withdraw from the world, and understood that the purpose of his earthly incarnation had reached its completion. He then entered the forest alone and sat beneath a tree in deep meditation.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar disclosed the emerging agreements on September 4 following talks in Warsaw with Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski. The two ministers reviewed implementation of the Action Plan adopted during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landmark visit to Poland in 2024 and assessed progress across trade, investment, defence, energy and technology.
The exchange comes only two weeks after Singh and Koizumi held extensive defence talks in New Delhi on August 20, when the two sides agreed on a series of measures intended to convert the India-Japan strategic partnership into closer operational cooperation between their armed forces.
Chief of Army Staff General Dhiraj Seth received Lieutenant General Le Van Huong, Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, during the Vietnamese general’s official visit to India on September 3. The two commanders discussed measures to strengthen defence cooperation and military-to-military engagement, with both armies reaffirming their commitment to regional peace and stability.
The two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Pune on September 4, 2026, bringing together Drogo Aerospace’s unmanned-aircraft engineering capabilities and MIL’s experience in ammunition, explosives and warhead technology. The agreement was signed by Yashwanth Bonthu, Founder and CEO of Drogo Aerospace, and Kumar Vaibhav Gaur, Executive Director of Munitions India.
ATR says the agreement is its largest firm order in almost a decade and the largest order ever placed with the manufacturer by a regional airline. The deal also takes ATR’s 2026 order intake to 54 aircraft, already exceeding its total net orders for the whole of 2025.
The company says it works across research and development, electronic-system design and manufacturing, and composite structures, with activities spanning RF and microwave equipment, electronic-warfare products, airborne electronics, embedded systems, power electronics and aerospace composite structures.
Beyond creating a genetic reference for each species, the scientists reconstructed aspects of their ancient population history. Their analysis indicates that all four experienced substantial declines in effective population size during climatic fluctuations of the Pleistocene, revealing that the evolutionary history of these birds was shaped by environmental change long before today’s pressures from deforestation, hunting and habitat fragmentation emerged.
The new system came into effect on September 1, 2026, following a decision by the Bureau of Immigration, which operates under the Ministry of Home Affairs. Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu confirmed the change and described it as another step towards making international air travel from India more seamless and digital.
