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…
Despite the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi exposing his lie on a ceasefire claim in the Sindoor operation, President Trump continues to take credit for brokering peace between India and Pakistan, averting a nuclear war, an effort worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. In a tweet today, the 21 June 2025, he lamented the lack…
Most of the wars are fought over territorial disputes between two neighbouring countries, and a few were fought in the past because of the hegemonic attitude of either an individual (WWII) or countries (Cold War era) with the intention to dominate the world. The Iran-Israel war belongs to neither of them, nor is a war…
Los Angeles (LA) is burning today, not by the Californian wildfires but by the fire ignited by protesters in the streets by torching vehicles, attacking police, putting road blockades, and hoisting flags of different countries and burning the American flag. The fire erupted because of the high-handedness of Marines and National Guards deployed by President…
