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The contract was signed in New Delhi on October 6, 2026, in the presence of Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh. The procurement is being undertaken under the Buy (Indian-IDDM) category, which gives priority to equipment that is indigenously designed, developed and manufactured.
The Advanced High-Altitude Parachute has been designed and developed by the Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment, Agra, a DRDO laboratory specialising in aerial delivery and parachute systems.
The connection between the grain, Assam’s environment and its traditional cultivation ultimately led to Joha Rice of Assam receiving Geographical Indication protection, formally recognising the rice as an agricultural product whose reputation and distinctive qualities are associated with the state.
Agnikul said the latest test was designed to study throttling behaviour by varying thrust during operation. The company also allowed the engine to run for a duration beyond the maximum burn time required by some of its ascent-phase engines, generating additional endurance data before flight.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation has successfully conducted a flight trial of its indigenously
The Hyderabad facility is being designed around high-density GPU deployment, liquid cooling, fast networking and large-scale storage. These systems are necessary because frontier AI models require thousands of accelerators to work together continuously while moving enormous volumes of data between processors and storage infrastructure.
The Gaur is an advanced version of BEML’s Medium Bullet Proof Vehicle Mk-II, a 4×4 protected mobility platform developed for operations in environments where troops may face small-arms fire, grenade fragments and blast threats.
The expanding corporate activity rests on a formal India-Japan semiconductor partnership established in 2023 between India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Commercial ties have become one of the strongest pillars of the India-UAE relationship. An official Ministry of External Affairs background note states that bilateral trade reached about $100 billion in 2025, making the UAE one of India’s largest trading partners.
The expansion plan follows a major intellectual-property milestone. In September 2026, GalaxEye announced that it had secured a United States patent covering the architecture used to align and synchronise optical and microwave sensors for simultaneous data acquisition. The patent provides international protection for the core technology underlying its OptoSAR platform.
