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Small workshop to global supplier—how this Indian auto parts maker built a manufacturing empire

Uno Minda closed the last financial year ending March with consolidated revenues of close to Rs 20,000 crore, and has 37,000 employees working across 75 manufacturing facilities.

SMPP secures order for additional 10,000 bulletproof jackets for paramilitary forces

SMPP Limited gets order for additional 10,000 bulletproof jackets for BSF, CISF & SSB. This is over & above the existing order for 40,000 jackets, taking the total to 50,000.

2026 defence budget is not good enough to achieve Viksit armed forces

The creation of Viksit armed forces requires a national security vision for 2047, a national security strategy reviewed every five years, and a national defence policy.

Why India’s science and research ecosystem is failing its global ambitions

Students often lack exposure to seminars, discussions, & active researchers. Faculty engagement in sustained, high-impact research is limited, especially at the college level.

Is this finally the era for Nehruvian economics? What he got right, and wrong

One can be a tad more optimistic today about the revival of Nehruvian economics without the public-sector albatross.

IndiGo meltdown carries a warning for India’s defence sector

IndiGo showed how a single point of failure can ripple across a sector. In defence, where there is no external fallback, the consequences are far more serious.

India’s defence needs financial institutions. Great powers build credit, not just arsenals

India spends heavily on defence but does not finance it. That distinction separates mature defence-industrial economies from those trapped in yearly budget cycles.

India doesn’t want to rely solely on HAL for fighter jets. AMCA project is the first step

India has long spoken of self-reliance, yet delays have repeatedly necessitated stopgap imports, including Jaguars, Mirages, Su-30MKIs, MiG-29Ks, and Rafales.

Imported car, local pride & quack-quack, Dr Duck takes charge

The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print, online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately. Also Read: Chipko inspired the...

India’s 1st commercial quantum computer has a task. Drug development

"Quantum computing is very important to actually move toward the next generation of intelligence modeling,” said Nagendra Nagaraja, Founder and CEO, QpiAI.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.