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In cybersecurity, speed is everything. The faster a vulnerability is found and rectified, the safer the data is. For years, human expertise was needed to do this. Now, Artificial Intelligence can identify hidden vulnerabilities and write the code to patch them in hours, compressing a process that once took teams of experts days or weeks....

Despite significant investments, such as a proposed ₹1 lakh crore research and development fund for the private sector and startups, much of the technology developed by Indian talent abroad is being bought back by Indian industries from foreign markets, Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan stated on Tuesday (May 5, 2026).  Delivering the key note address at IIT Madras...

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday (May 5, 2026) advocated equal contribution by the private sector and government in research and innovation, noting that about 70% of research investment in India currently comes from the government. Inaugurating the IIT Madras Technology Summit 2026 here, he said while the government has significantly increased funding for...

India stands at a pivotal crossroads in its journey in space. The era of state-led exploration has given way to the “Second Space Age”—a competitive frontier defined by commercial interests, private enterprise, and new geopolitical ambitions. This collection of articles from The Hindu provides an essential record of how a nation, once celebrated for its...

Marking a significant step forward in India’s nuclear power programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, via a post on X, late on Monday (April 6, 2026), said that the prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam, Chennai, had achieved ‘criticality.’ This means that the nuclear reaction in the reactor had become safely self-sustaining and was on...

India’s first prototype fast-breeder reactor (PFBR) in Tamil Nadu‘s Kalpakkam on Monday (April 6, 2026) came another step forward in its civil nuclear journey as it attained criticality. First criticality in a fast breeder reactor is the moment when the nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining. A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that produces more fissile...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (April 6, 2026) said India has taken a defining step in its civil nuclear journey as the indigenously built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam attained criticality. In a post on X, Mr. Modi said this is a proud moment for the country. “Today, India takes a defining step...

 Seeking to establish central optical devices quality control and vision care regulation a private member bill has been introduced in Parliament recently. The proposed bill, introduced by MP Ajeet Madhavrao Gopchade, seeks to offer remedy to the alleged vulnerability of consumers who according to the bill are in a “no-man’s land” between the manufacture of a lens and...

Debris of a launch vehicle with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) logo and the national emblem have reportedly been found recently in an uninhabited island in Maldives. The debris of the Payload Fairing which are believed to be that of ISRO’s Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM-3) washed up to an island near L. Kunahandhoo in...

President Droupadi Murmu on Monday (January 26, 2026) conferred India’s highest peacetime gallantry award, Ashoka Chakra, to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who created history by becoming the first Indian to set foot on the International Space Station (ISS). The President presented the award to Mr. Shukla at the Republic Day celebrations at the Kartavya Path,...