The new programme aims to offer hands-on experience in the aerospace sector to students, with access to IISC’s Aerospace Engineering X Lab, and a final-year capstone project.
Pawan Kumar Chandana was in conversation with ThePrint EiC Shekhar Gupta and Senior Assistant Editor Soumya Pillai at ThePrintOTC at The Quorum, Hyderabad.
For decades, India’s defence industry has churned out ‘indigenous’ hardware. Much of it is mere assembly of imported kits or licensed production, masking a deep import dependence.
With sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) seen as key to 2050 net-zero target, India drew much attention at Airbus Summit 2025, with its potential to produce 8-10 mn tonnes of SAF annually.
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.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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