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The significance of the programme lies not simply in producing another artillery system. A mature electromagnetic gun could eventually occupy the space between conventional long-range artillery and expensive guided missiles, delivering high-velocity kinetic projectiles over considerable distances without depending upon the large chemical propellant charges required by traditional guns.
Modern communications can appear almost entirely wireless to an ordinary user. Smartphones connect through mobile towers, laptops through Wi-Fi and satellites increasingly provide communications to remote locations. Yet once data begins travelling between continents, most of it does not travel through space.
TiHAN and the Andhra Pradesh Drones Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding under which the IIT Hyderabad hub will serve as a technical and knowledge partner for the Drone City and the wider drone ecosystem being developed in the state.
Addressing the BRICS Business Forum in New Delhi, Modi also proposed two additional measurable goals for the grouping’s business community: identifying and addressing the ten biggest barriers to intra-BRICS trade and creating 1,000 new partnerships between businesses across BRICS countries every year. He suggested that progress against all three benchmarks should be reviewed annually.
The 125-km Rishikesh–Karnaprayag railway is being developed by RVNL, a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Railways, at an estimated cost of around ₹37,000 crore. The project is targeted for completion by December 2029.
India currently supplies vaccines to more than 100 countries and accounts for nearly 60 per cent of global vaccine production by volume. It also meets more than 65 per cent of the World Health Organization’s routine immunisation vaccine requirements.
The developments reflect Indian Railways’ continuing effort to increase transport capacity, improve logistics connectivity and provide more affordable passenger services across major regions of the country.
The varieties — CAZRI Moth-4, CAZRI Moth-5, CAZRI Moth-6 and CAZRI Moth-7 — were released over the past three years as part of a long-term breeding programme aimed at developing high-yielding moth bean suited to the hot, dry and highly unpredictable conditions of the Thar region.
The more useful definition of strategic autonomy is the ability of a state to make important national decisions without facing unacceptable pressure because of a critical external dependency. A country may remain deeply integrated into the world economy while ensuring that no single foreign supplier can completely disable a strategic sector.
Indian climate-technology company Takachar is addressing this problem through portable thermochemical equipment designed to process biomass close to where it is generated. Instead of transporting large volumes of low-value agricultural waste to a distant centralised plant, Takachar takes the processing system directly to farms, forestry operations and other locations where waste biomass is available.
