New Delhi: Meta India on Friday named Aman Jain as the new head of Public Policy, to lead the social media company’s policy strategy and engagements in India. Jain will also be a member of the India leadership team. He will join the company early next year and will report to Simon Milner, Vice President…
Bengaluru: Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday said the company is deepening its commitment to India’s artificial intelligence ecosystem with massive infrastructure investments. Microsoft is also strengthening its cloud footprint and focusing on skilling millions of Indians for an AI-driven future, he said. Speaking at a Microsoft event here, Nadella said, “We are…
New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has said the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been able to save an amount of Rs 2,64,156 crore because of its own “indigenous research” over the last five years. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, in a report presented in Parliament on Tuesday, also said that in the…
New Delhi: Russia agreed to encourage joint manufacturing in India of military hardware and spare parts for the maintenance of Russian-origin arms and defence equipment. Ways to bolster overall bilateral defence cooperation figured prominently during summit talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. It has been a long-standing grievance…
New Delhi: From a long-life seawater battery system for sustained underwater sensing and surveillance applications to a waterjet propulsion system for fast interceptor craft, the DRDO has handed over seven technologies to the armed forces, the government said. These technologies have been developed under the Technology Development Fund (TDF) scheme, the defence ministry said on…
In an era dominated by digital noise and algorithmic homogenisation, India’s online journey is undergoing a subtle yet powerful shift. For over a decade, multinational platforms dictated not just how Indians connected, but increasingly how they thought, spoke, created and even perceived their own society. The result was paradoxical: a vast digital universe with extraordinary…
New Delhi: Apple and Samsung will discuss the Sanchar Saathi app order with the government and try to find a middle path on the directive for its pre-installation on mobile phones, sources said. In an order dated November 28, 2025, the Department of Telecom has directed manufacturers and importers of mobile handsets to ensure that…
Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday virtually inaugurated Indian space startup Skyroot’s Infinity Campus, here, and also unveiled the company’s first orbital rocket Vikram-I, which has capability to launch satellites to orbit. In his address, the PM highlighted the government’s ‘historic’ space reforms and said that opening up the space sector to private players…
Our Special Correspondent Ananth Technologies, founded in 1992, has long been one of India’s silent but indispensable pillars in space and defence. Over the decades, the company has touched virtually every major satellite and launch vehicle programme, earning the trust of ISRO, DRDO, and other strategic agencies. Its expertise—spanning precision sensors, airworthiness protocols, and complex…
Thiruvanathapuram: ISRO Chairman V Narayanan on Tuesday said he was pleased to see private companies stepping into the complex work of building navigation systems for spacecraft and defence, adding that their efforts would support PM Modi’s vision of making India a developed nation by 2047. He noted that navigation systems are highly complex and critical,…
