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TopicMade In India

Topic: Made In India

Made in India or Made in China? Two firms spar over a next-gen surgical robot

Gurugram's SS Innovations wrote to Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation that Gujarat-based Merai Newage merely re-labelled & repackaged a China-made surgical robot.

Madhvan is a new whisky in the market. ‘Made in India’ is great again

UBD’s second blended whisky, Madhvan was launched on 22 August at The Claridges in Delhi. It foregrounds cultural pride.

ICMR pushes for made-in-India handheld that can detect brain bleeds in 2 mins. All about CEREBO

New Delhi: India’s top health research agency—the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)—is urging states to purchase and deploy a fully made-in-India hand-held portable...

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

What is Akashteer & why it’s dubbed as ‘hell for Pakistan’s air adventures’

Akashteer was jointly developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).

Hyundai, Maruti, Nissan—sales are down at home, but ‘Made in India’ exports are driving growth

Maruti-Suzuki's Jimny, manufactured in Gurugram factory, has become such a hit in Japan that there’s a waiting list. In India, the carmaker had to slash prices to clear stock.

Army, Navy & IAF to perform firepower demo at ‘Bharat Shakti’ in Pokhran, Modi to be in attendance

The exercise, where all 3 services will display indigenously-made weapon systems, aligns with Army observing 2024 as yr of ‘tech absorption’, as announced by Army Chief General Manoj Pande.

China going all out to attack India-made iPhone 15. This techno-nationalism will isolate it

Some Chinese social media users have even gone on to claim that the new iPhone’s lens is ‘dusty’, while others have accused it of failing to meet European standards.

Story of 2023 Met Gala’s Made-in-Kerala ‘red carpet’: 60 days, 40 workers, nearly 7,000 sq m

The stylish carpet that celebrities posed on during the Met Gala was made from sustainable sisal fibres by Neytt by Extraweave, a company based in the small town of Cherthala.

On Camera

Savitribai Phule made space for radical women misfits. She pioneered Satyashodhak modernity

The distinctiveness of her writing is evident in her compositions—women, shudras, and atishudras are at the center. Her poetry challenges the aesthetics of 'modern' Marathi literature.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.