Lab-grown diamonds have collapsed a century-old empire built on the hype of sentimentality and romanticism, and are now getting ready to be a part of the technology infrastructure taking humanity forward. De Beers established a monopoly by selling a myth; science has broken it.
There’s no ceremony for a retaining wall that quietly held, no ribbon cutting for a drainage channel that was cleared before the monsoon instead of after it. In maintenance, success looks like nothing happening at all, and that’s a hard thing for any political system to celebrate or campaign on.
Ask who owns a stretch of national highway, or an embankment, or the tunnel wall at Silkyara. The honest answer is often several departments, none of whom will admit it first. A road, a bridge, a drainage channel should each belong to one named office, the kind that gets credit when it holds and blame when it doesn’t.
India’s goal now should not be just to become a ‘Builder’s Navy’, but a ‘Fast Builder’s Navy’. This means freezing designs, placing large orders together and never letting shipyard assembly lines sit empty.
India notified an offshore wind policy in 2015 and sits on about 70 GW of potential off Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. 11 years later, not one commercial turbine stands in the water. This article tracks why the offshore turbine tenders had no bidders.
In naval strategy, it is not total warship numbers that decide outcomes, but having the right assets deployed at the right place and time.
The Ganga led the surge, while Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa moved large volumes. The Brahmaputra opened another logistics axis to the Northeast through Bangladesh, with Odisha being prepared for the next major corridor.
Bathou’s recognition in Census 2027 has sparked a Bodo debate over religion, Christianity, indigenous identity and the preservation of cultural heritage.
Dadabhai Naoroji wasn’t just saying the British took India’s money. He was showing, with the actual records, how an entire monetary system could make a growing, trading economy poorer with every transaction, legally, quietly, and year after year.
Led by Varma and Ramayyan, the Travancore forces managed to strangle the Dutch supplies from all sides.
Marthanda Varma promoted a policy of strengthening his kingdom and expanding its borders. This angered the Dutch and led to the conflict.
Economists have a name for what happens when a central bank’s independence quietly bends under the weight of government borrowing needs: fiscal dominance. It’s the slow drift toward that condition, not some Hollywood-style default, that should worry anyone watching from outside America’s borders.
An Indian company that writes brilliant software for a foreign platform gets paid well for the work. It almost never owns a slice of what that platform eventually becomes worth. This is the exact distinction Naoroji’s arithmetic always hinged on, not whether India earns money, but what kind of money it earns, and what kind slips past it entirely.
Because the traditional shock absorbers, banks, have less room to grow, more of the market’s real ability to handle stress has quietly shifted to hedge funds and other leveraged, less regulated players, the same funds running the basis trade mentioned earlier.
“Risks related to the Bosporus and the Strait of Hormuz might require alternative routes,” stated deputy PM Khusnullin.
A monsoon that sustains more than a billion people is being rewritten, one melting season at a time, in a sea most Indians will never see. That isn’t a metaphor. It’s a data point. It means India’s Arctic stake isn’t mainly about trade or minerals. At its core, it’s also existential, in a way no ally’s is.
Lower per-tonne freight costs, sharply lower fuel use, multimodal terminals, Jalvahak incentives and private investment are shaping a system in which heavy cargo can move by river for the longest, most efficient leg of journeys.
Ask who owns a stretch of national highway, or an embankment, or the tunnel wall at Silkyara. The honest answer is often several departments, none of whom will admit it first. A road, a bridge, a drainage channel should each belong to one named office, the kind that gets credit when it holds and blame when it doesn’t.
India’s goal now should not be just to become a ‘Builder’s Navy’, but a ‘Fast Builder’s Navy’. This means freezing designs, placing large orders together and never letting shipyard assembly lines sit empty.
India notified an offshore wind policy in 2015 and sits on about 70 GW of potential off Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. 11 years later, not one commercial turbine stands in the water. This article tracks why the offshore turbine tenders had no bidders.
Indian Railways is leveraging Distributed Acoustic Sensing, optical fibres, and indigenous machine learning to safeguard ecological corridors.
Discover how India is deploying the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) using AI, drones, and smart fencing to secure its frontiers.
Lab-grown diamonds have collapsed a century-old empire built on the hype of sentimentality and romanticism, and are now getting ready to be a part of the technology infrastructure taking humanity forward. De Beers established a monopoly by selling a myth; science has broken it.
Explore how 3D-printed guns and machine gun conversion devices are bypassing global arms control laws, and why proposed DRM software bans are failing.
CSAM tracking and child protection
POCSO already recognises computer-generated and fabricated depictions, while Section 67B and the 2026 IT Rules add further legal and platform duties, though fully synthetic cases still raise unresolved questions for Indian courts and law enforcement.
Operation Megh Chakra showed how foreign intelligence can trigger searches across India, while Thanjavur, Hisar and Aizawl demonstrate how ICSE data, CyberTipline reports and cyberforensics can converge during investigations involving online child sexual abuse material.
More than 69 lakh CyberTips had been shared with States and Union Territories by March 2025, yet no consolidated national data shows how many became FIRs, convictions or led investigators to identify and rescue children.
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