The Indigo fiasco that unfolded on 2 December 2025 was inevitable as it became an aviation whale enjoying a monopoly on Indian airspace with 64% of the market share in terms of passenger traffic. Lakhs of passengers were left stranded due to the cancellation of thousands of flights. Tempers flared, the media went berserk, asking…
Some stray dogs are fortunate enough to be rescued by VVIPs and have a free tour of India’s most guarded place and the seat of power, like the Indian Parliament. Kudos to Madam Renuka Choudhary, a Congress Rajya Sabha MP in rescuing a stray dog in the streets of Delhi and giving it an intended…
The idiosyncratic talent that binds two highly ambitious individuals, Prashant Kishor and Arvind Kejriwal, is their tactical shrewdness, an essential qualification to enter politics in India. Arvind Kejriwal used this talent and rode on Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption movement and formed the Aam Aadmi Party in 2012, promising clean politics and good governance free from illegitimate…
A BBC report last week published with a heading “The Indian messaging app that wants to take on WhatsApp” opened with a cryptic remark, Can an Indian-made messaging app compete with the behemoth that is WhatsApp? This remark relates to an indigenously developed Indian messaging app called Arattai that saw 7.5 million downloads in a…
There are years when nothing happens, and then there are days when years happen. The cloudbursts in Dehradun in Uttarakhand and Mandi in Himachal Pradesh in September 2025 close on the heels of similar events in these states earlier in July and August elucidate and echo this sentiment. Similarly, the city of Hyderabad witnessed cloudbursts…
Energy is crucial for our country’s growth as it powers all sectors of the economy, from industrial production and agriculture to transportation and households, leading to improved living standards, job creation, and access to essential services. Nature provides us with abundant, constantly replenishing energy sources like solar from the Sun, wind from moving air, hydropower…
As India celebrates its 79th Independence Day, it’s time to pause at this milestone and look back at our journey in science and technology so far, before we resume our march towards becoming a Viksit Bharat in 2047, a goal set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Despite centuries of destruction and loot, first by the…
On America’s 249th birthday on 4 July 2025 President Donald Trump signed his signature bill that he called One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB or OBBA) into law with an ideological focus on a sweeping scale to make it the most consequential legislative package globally with impact on economic, environmental, healthcare, geopolitical, defence, energy and technology…
In a landmark achievement, scientists at IIT-Delhi and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) demonstrated quantum communication over a distance of more than 1 km via a Free Space Optical (FSO) link. Why is this milestone so important to India? I write this article on the popular demand of our readers to explain the significance…
The Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon-9 rocket lifted off majestically from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre today, 25 June 2025, at 12:01 IST with four crew onboard. While this is a small step for ISRO, it is a giant leap for Bharat because the SpaceX Dragon…
