Hardly anyone outside India’s deep-tech ecosystem may have heard of NoPo Nanotechnologies. Yet, in a modest facility in Bengaluru’s Electronic City, a company born from an improbable dream is attempting to solve one of the most consequential problems in advanced manufacturing — producing carbon nanotubes at industrial scale. And it all began with Mars. Gadhadar…
Houston (US): Texas AI Learning Centre, set up in collaboration with the IIT Kharagpur Outreach Network, was inaugurated at the Tagore Centre here to advance artificial intelligence education, skill development, and industry solutions. Coinciding with India’s 80th Independence Day and IIT Kharagpur’s 75th anniversary, the facility was jointly launched by India’s Consul General in Houston,…
Sydney: This week, a trial commenced in the United States that could drastically change how Facebook and Instagram operate globally. The trial in Oakland, which is expected to last six weeks, pits 29 US states against the two social media platforms’ owner, Meta. Four states – California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey – are running…
Shimla: Researchers from IIT Mandi have created a bio-inspired surface coating on 3D-printed bone implants capable of mechanically disrupting bacteria and accelerating integration of the implant with bones. The research has been published in the Chemical Engineering Journal. It employs tiny hydroxyapatite structures, resembling sea urchins, on biodegradable plastic scaffolds to tackle two key problems…
New Delhi: Reliance Industries and Rolls-Royce on Friday said they intend to jointly develop a sovereign combat engine for the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) programme, marking a bid by India’s largest private-sector company and Britain’s storied aero-engine maker to build indigenous fighter-jet propulsion capability in the country. The two companies, in a joint statement,…
Online Tech Desk The medium-range ballistic missile Agni-4 was successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Odisha, on Thursday (August 6, 2026), with the launch validating all operational and technical parameters. The test was carried out under the aegis of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC), the Ministry of Defence said in a statement….
For decades, Bharat watched successive industrial revolutions unfold from the sidelines. We became consumers of many breakthrough technologies rather than their creators. The semiconductor race was largely missed. The internet revolution was dominated by American companies. China surged ahead in manufacturing. The lesson was unmistakable—late entry into strategic technologies comes at an enormous national cost….
If there is one image that captures the sheer complexity of quantum computing, it is perhaps this: Google’s quantum computer operates at temperatures close to -273°C—colder than outer space itself. Layer upon layer of refrigeration technology is needed merely to keep it alive before it can perform computations. Now imagine a quantum computer that sits…
New Delhi: The Indian government has directed GitHub to remove Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging app developed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, after protesters used it to communicate during internet shutdowns in central Delhi. The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), the Home Ministry’s cybercrime arm, ordered Microsoft-owned GitHub to remove the Bluetooth-based messaging application. Dorsey…
New Delhi: The launch of India’s first hydrogen-powered train on Friday will mark a shift from dependence on fossil fuels for an energy-intensive railway sector, but is likely to play a niche role rather than becoming the mainstream solution as most of the country’s broad-gauge network is already electrified, according to experts. Hydrogen’s long-term contribution…
