India Moves Ahead With 60-Aircraft Medium Transport Programme as ₹1 Lakh Crore Tender Is Reported
The report says the locally produced aircraft would contain more than 60% indigenous content.
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India’s Financial Inclusion Index Rises to 70 as Banking and Digital Access Expand Nationwide
The Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Inclusion Index reached 70.0 in March 2026. It stood at 43.4 in March 2017. The index measures access, usage and quality of financial services.
India Develops 75 Lighthouses as Tourism Destinations to Showcase Maritime Heritage
Lighthouses continue to function primarily as Marine Aids to Navigation, helping ships navigate safely along India’s extensive coastline. The tourism initiative therefore does not replace their operational role, but adds a heritage and public-engagement dimension to infrastructure that has guided mariners for generations.
India Pushes Coastal Shipping and Inland Waterways as National Waterway Cargo Hits 218 Million Tonnes
Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal, in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, said the government is pursuing a combination of infrastructure development, fiscal incentives and regulatory reforms to strengthen coastal and inland water transport.
RailOne Crosses 4.76 Crore Downloads, Handles 10 Lakh Ticket Bookings Daily
The app combines major passenger services on one digital platform. These include reserved tickets, unreserved tickets, platform tickets, train enquiries, PNR status and RailMadad.
Kaveri 2.0: India Revives Its Indigenous Fighter Jet Engine Ambition
By 2021, nine complete prototype engines and four core engines had been built, while the programme had accumulated 3,217 hours of engine testing. Kaveri underwent altitude tests and was also flown aboard an Il-76 Flying Test Bed, making it the first indigenously developed Indian military gas-turbine engine to undergo such flight testing.
Sea6 Energy: The Indian Deep-Tech Company Mechanising Farming in the Ocean
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Bengaluru, Sea6 Energy describes its long-term objective as building large-scale ocean agriculture and using cultivated marine biomass as a renewable industrial raw material.
Philippines Eyes Major BrahMos Expansion as Reports Point to Up to Nine Additional Batteries
The Philippine News Agency, which operates under the Presidential Communications Office, reported that Marcos said the country was “in the process of actually procuring more.”
Beyond Aid and American Leverage: India’s Economic Growth Can No Longer Be Controlled from Washington
The modern Indian economy is approaching a scale at which neither American aid nor foreign philanthropic funding is remotely large enough to determine its direction. India’s growth is increasingly generated inside India itself through household consumption, infrastructure investment, manufacturing, services, entrepreneurship, digital commerce and an expanding technology ecosystem.
Nathu La: Zoho’s India-Designed Server Takes Aim at AI Costs and Technological Dependence
Unveiled on June 10, 2026, Nathu La represents Zoho’s first major entry into computer hardware. The Chennai-headquartered technology company developed the platform through a specialised engineering team based in Nagpur, extending its operations beyond business software, cloud services and artificial intelligence into the physical infrastructure that runs them.