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India and Afghanistan established a dedicated Air Freight Corridor in June 2017 to create a more direct commercial connection between the two countries. The first cargo flight from Kabul to Delhi arrived on June 19, 2017, and a Kandahar–Delhi service followed later that month.
Bringing four major shipyards under a common vendor-development initiative is significant because their requirements span submarines, frigates, destroyers, patrol vessels, anti-submarine warfare ships, auxiliary vessels and specialised maritime platforms.
The pilot project is designed to make better use of solar electricity generated at the Manesar plant. The green hydrogen produced through electrolysis will be blended with natural gas and used as process fuel within manufacturing operations.
Speaking in Madhya Pradesh, Gadkari said thousands of similar projects are being taken up across the country as the government promotes Bio-CNG, ethanol, electric mobility and hydrogen as part of a broader shift towards cleaner transport and domestic energy production.
Singh said India can offer some missile systems at almost one-fourth the price of comparable products from foreign OEMs. For countries seeking modern military capability without the procurement costs associated with many established Western systems, that price difference can become commercially important.
That difference is because Gulbarga Tur Dal is not being treated merely as another pulse moving through a commodity market. Its GI identity, aggregation through an FPO and access to an overseas buyer have together created a higher-value sales channel.
The new project focuses on the development of the Agnibaan Reusable Launch Vehicle, or Agnibaan RLV, with an architecture designed to move beyond conventional reusable launch systems that recover only the first stage.
According to the DDU-GKY 2.0 portal, 24 States and Union Territories have already allocated around 5.6 lakh training targets covering more than 1,200 projects to approved Project Implementation Agencies, or PIAs.
Mankurad is not simply one of several commercial mangoes available in Goa. It is the variety against which many Goan consumers instinctively compare other mangoes, particularly when judging flavour, aroma and eating quality. Its status has developed through generations of household cultivation, village orchards and local markets rather than through the creation of vast industrial plantations.
Shah expects the sector to expand further and estimated that India’s drone industry could eventually reach around ₹19,000–20,000 crore. The growth is being driven by rising military procurement, agricultural applications, surveying, infrastructure inspection, logistics, surveillance and a rapidly developing domestic manufacturing base.
