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Monday, July 28, 2025
TopicR&D

Topic: R&D

Indian R&D is lagging. Tata Motors is an exception within India Inc

In 2022-2023, Tata Motors spent 5.86% of its total sales on R&D—on par with global automotive leaders like Toyota and Ford and more than the combined R&D spending of 30 largest Indian companies.

STEM diplomacy, special schemes—how India can attract diaspora to lead global technology race

The Indian diaspora is well embedded into the best global professional networks in their relevant domains of expertise.

Netflix’s ‘IC 814’ is an expensive PR job for the ISI—shows R&AW torturing civilians

Nobody involved with the show seems to have any idea of how the intelligence agencies or the Government of India function. Or, for that matter, newspaper offices.

Rajnath Singh wants Indian military to boost R&D. But defence finance is complex territory

Singh’s call to industry leaders to spend more on R&D is understandable, but whether the industry will rise to the occasion is a moot point.

SubscriberWrites: India’s defence R&D needs an upgrade

While there has been considerable progress in developing a robust industrial ecosystem for defence production in India, the limitations are obvious, writes Debabrata Chatterjee.

The pressing need to improve R&D in India & why it can’t emulate the East Asian model

Unlike its East Asian neighbours, India has scale manufacturing in only handful of sectors. Our trading success may lie more with value-added exports for which R&D becomes crucial.

Does regulation affect innovation? Study shows it does, but there is a way out

French economist and professors from LSE and MIT applied a growth model on company data from France to suggest that regulatory reforms may have greater benefits than previously thought.

Covid crisis lit a spark between market and sci-tech. India must not let it die now

India’s systems to bring science and technology to market have been historically weak, reflected in a comparatively low rank in the Global Innovation Index.

On Camera

Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.