This is one of the larger single tranches of capital defence approvals in recent years and its 98% domestic-sourcing share is being read as evidence that the Aatmanirbhar Bharat push in defence has moved from stated policy to actual procurement practice across the Army, Navy and Air Force simultaneously.
An August 2025 paper by China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) modelled an urban assault force of six "combat robots" - humanoids, robot dogs and unmanned vehicles - clearing buildings floor-by-floor within a projected five-to-ten-year timeframe. The PLA issued a tender for a humanoid robot in May 2025 and budgeted roughly $300,000 in June 2026 for a system to collect and label perception data for humanoid…
The FATF report, "Investigating Professional Money Laundering, Underground Banking and the Use of Hawala and Other Similar Service Providers," identifies configurations ranging from encrypted-messaging coordination with traditional cash settlement, to stablecoin-based settlement, to AI-driven automated transaction structuring and fiat-to-cryptocurrency conversion. Crucially, the report finds digitisation is acting as a…
India's steel sector generates emissions roughly 32% above the global average and accounts for nearly 12% of the country's total GHG emissions, while producing around 160 million tonnes in FY 2025-26 - the world's second-highest after China. A Nature Climate Change study by Potsdam Institute researcher Clara Bachorz found that avoiding new BF-BOF plants and redirecting investment to DRI-EAF could almost halve global…
CNG alone accounted for 25.28% of PV sales, more than three times the EV share of 7.63%, with hybrids at 9.04%. FADA president Sai Giridhar explicitly linked the shift to "running-cost economics and continuing consumer hesitation around the E20 transition, nudging petrol buyers towards CNG, hybrids and EVs." PV inventory has meanwhile risen to 38-40 days, well above FADA's recommended 21-day benchmark, with 56% of dealers…