India Fortifies Siliguri Corridor With Six-Line Rail Plan, New Garrisons and Smart Border Security
India is steadily transforming the strategically critical Siliguri Corridor through a combination of railway redundancy,
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BHEL and Norway’s Hystar Join Forces to Localise PEM Electrolyser Manufacturing in India
The agreement, announced on August 13, 2026, combines Hystar’s PEM electrolyser technology with BHEL’s engineering, manufacturing and large-project execution capabilities. The two companies intend to progressively indigenise the technology and develop locally manufactured systems for green-hydrogen projects in the Indian market.
Talabira II & III Coal Mine Posts Record Output as Digital Mining and Dispatch Systems Expand
Located across Sambalpur and Jharsuguda districts, the mine produced 19.14 million tonnes of coal during FY 2025-26, representing year-on-year growth of 11.28%. It also achieved a record daily output of 126,138 tonnes on March 21, 2026, while production during March reached an all-time monthly high of 3.39 million tonnes.
India and UAE’s Expanding Rafale Fleets Could Turn India Into a Regional Rafale MRO Hub
India and the UAE could therefore eventually operate a combined 142 Rafales based on already contracted aircraft, even before taking India’s proposed 114-aircraft follow-on procurement into account. This geographical concentration creates an unusually strong opportunity for regional maintenance infrastructure.
Tank Protection Systems: How Modern Armour Survives the Battlefield
Early tanks relied primarily on rolled homogeneous steel armour. Modern main battle tanks employ much more sophisticated arrangements involving combinations of high-strength steel, ceramics, composite materials, spaced armour and other specialised materials.
DRDO Develops Advanced Low-Frequency Vibration Isolation Technology to Make Indian Warships and Submarines Quieter
The latest research focuses on a particularly difficult part of the vibration spectrum: low-frequency vibration. Conventional rubber isolation systems can perform effectively once vibration frequencies rise sufficiently above the natural resonance of the mounting system, but isolating machinery operating at lower frequencies presents a much greater engineering challenge.
India Targets Bharatiya Antariksha Station by 2035 as First Module Gets Government Approval
ISRO Chairman Dr V Narayanan said the space agency is simultaneously advancing several major programmes, including Gaganyaan and the Bharatiya Antariksha Station. The approval of the first BAS module marks an important step toward creating a permanent Indian presence in low-Earth orbit and expanding the country’s role in human space exploration.
PierSight — Building India’s Space-Based Maritime Surveillance Network
Ahmedabad-based PierSight is developing a different approach to this problem by combining Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR, with space-based ship-identification data in the same maritime intelligence architecture. The company is building a constellation intended to provide persistent, all-weather monitoring of maritime activity, allowing vessels, oil spills and other activity at sea to be detected through darkness and cloud cover and then correlated with AIS or its newer VDES evolution.
DRDO Developing Ultra-Sensitive Quantum Magnetometers to Detect Submarines Through Their Magnetic Signatures
DRDO Chairman Dr Samir V. Kamat has directly linked the organisation’s quantum-sensing research to submarine detection. He explained that DRDO is working on magnetometers capable of detecting changes in magnetic fields at the picotesla level and said such sensors could eventually be carried aboard UAVs or aircraft. According to Kamat, the technology could potentially enable submarine detection at depths of around 100 to 200 metres. The figure should presently be treated as a projected capability rather than a publicly demonstrated operational detection range.
FPIs Invest ₹23,544 Crore in Indian Equities in August as Foreign Buying Momentum Strengthens
According to the latest depository data, ₹14,118 crore of the August investment came through purchases on stock exchanges, while another ₹9,426 crore entered through the primary market. The sustained buying follows a net FPI equity inflow of about ₹20,200 crore in July, marking a significant reversal after four consecutive months of foreign investor withdrawals.