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Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari launched the facility in Mumbai on September 11, 2026, marking another step in the government’s effort to simplify electronic toll payments and improve the experience of motorists on the National Highway network.
The Next Generation Survey Vessels are intended to strengthen the Indian Navy’s hydrographic survey capability. The Defence Acquisition Council had approved their procurement in September 2023 as part of a wider package of capital acquisition proposals. The new vessels are expected to improve the Navy’s ability to conduct hydrographic operations in coastal and offshore waters.
Sitharaman suggested that industry and government should consider creating a federated platform through which Indian technology companies could collectively engage with regulators and policymakers in foreign markets.
The partnership brings together U-Space’s satellite-bus technology and small-satellite expertise with AXISCADES’ Indian engineering and manufacturing capabilities, with the companies aiming to address both commercial and institutional demand for microsatellites in India.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira in New Delhi on September 11, with the two sides reviewing bilateral relations and discussing ways to strengthen cooperation in trade and investment, defence, energy, agriculture and space.
Chara, part of the Bharat Innovates deep-tech cohort, has developed synchronous-reluctance motors ranging from 8 kW to 30 kW using materials that can be sourced domestically, eliminating the need for rare-earth permanent magnets traditionally used in many high-performance electric motors.
Importantly, Kaveri is no longer simply a conceptual roadmap system. QpiAI announced in March 2026 that it had demonstrated a high-speed hardware quantum-error-correction decoder operating alongside its 64-qubit Kaveri processor.
Smart Scope CX is intended to tackle one of the persistent challenges in cervical cancer prevention: bringing screening closer to women who may have limited access to specialist hospitals, laboratories or gynaecologists.
EyeROV has developed a full-stack marine robotics platform spanning remotely operated vehicles, autonomous surface vessels, autonomous underwater systems and artificial-intelligence-based marine data analytics.
Goyal pointed to India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as an example of digital public infrastructure that could support greater international payment connectivity. UPI has grown from a domestic instant-payment platform into an increasingly international system and is now operational for payment acceptance or cross-border remittances in 11 countries.
