| October 2026 · 165 stories |
| 31 Oct | Misc | Venttup Raises $3 Million From Rainmatter and Unicorn India Ventures to Build Precision Parts for Defence, Space and Energy Bengaluru's Venttup has raised $3 million, co-led by Zerodha's Rainmatter and Unicorn India Ventures, to build a precision manufacturing facility and… | 3 min |
| 31 Oct | Defence | Sarvam Signs a Five-Year AI Pact With HQ IDS to Build an 'AI Fabric' for the Army, Navy and Air Force Sarvam has signed a five-year MoU with Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff to design, develop and deploy AI applications for India's three armed… | 4 min |
| 31 Oct | Space | GSLV-F18 Puts NVS-03 Into Orbit, Giving NavIC a Path Back to Four Working Satellites ISRO's GSLV-F18 placed the NVS-03 navigation satellite into transfer orbit on 30 October, carrying an Indian-built atomic clock. If orbit raising… | 4 min |
| 31 Oct | Quantum | Ramdeobaba University and QClairvoyance to build quantum software and quantum-communication labs in Nagpur Nagpur's Ramdeobaba University has signed an MoU with start-up QClairvoyance Quantum Labs to build a quantum software lab and a QKD/QRNG… | 4 min |
| 31 Oct | Robotics | Coratia Technologies raises ₹18 crore bridge round to deliver its ₹66 crore Navy underwater-robot order Odisha's Coratia Technologies has raised ₹18 crore in a bridge round led by MGF Kavachh to execute its ₹66 crore Indian Navy contract for the… | 2 min |
| 29 Oct | Misc | NIT Rourkela team explores lead-free, moisture-switchable light-emitting materials A bismuth-based hybrid material reportedly switches its UV-excited emission as it loses and absorbs water. Security inks and humidity sensing remain… | 3 min |
| 29 Oct | Defence | Army and IAF prepare to order around 200 indigenous Light Utility Helicopters from HAL ANI reporting says the Army and IAF are preparing further HAL Light Utility Helicopter orders, with 12 built and another 187 in the pipeline. A firm… | 3 min |
| 29 Oct | Misc | Unacademy co-founders Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini are raising Longshot Capital, a ₹700 crore deep-tech fund Unacademy co-founders are reportedly raising a ₹700 crore fund for early-stage AI, manufacturing, space, defence and robotics. Reported commitments… | 3 min |
| 29 Oct | AI | NVIDIA backs Simplismart's $14 million Series B to make AI inference cheaper Simplismart, founded by BITS Pilani alumni Amritanshu Jain and Devansh Ghatak, has raised $14 million led by Dallas Venture Capital with NVIDIA… | 4 min |
| 29 Oct | Biotech | CoSara files its 30-minute point-of-care TB PCR test with CDSCO after reporting 97.3% sensitivity Co-Diagnostics says its Indian joint venture CoSara has submitted a TB PCR test to CDSCO after a 676-sample study. Reported sensitivity and… | 4 min |
| 29 Oct | Defence | Rajnath Singh calls for 'Aatmanirbharta 2.0' at Swavlamban 2026 as Navy iDEX challenges reach 229 At the Navy's Swavlamban 2026 seminar, the defence minister called for a second phase of self-reliance built on advanced technology, secure supply… | 4 min |
| 29 Oct | Semis | HCLTech opens two Karnataka centres to help Japan's Rapidus build 2-nanometre chips HCLTech and Rapidus have opened development centres in Bengaluru and Hubballi for mask design, process design kits and design-technology… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Energy | Greenzo Energy Raises ₹130 Crore Led by Ashish Kacholia to Scale Indian-Made Electrolysers Gujarat electrolyser maker Greenzo Energy has lined up ₹130 crore in a round led by Ashish Kacholia at a roughly ₹1,030 crore valuation to expand its… | 3 min |
| 28 Oct | Misc | PM Modi Opens ESTIC 2026, Urging Indian Science to Move From Adopting Technology to Creating It Opening ESTIC 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, PM Modi urged scientists and start-ups to create original technologies rather than adopt foreign ones, as the… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Bengaluru's Paar Autonomy Raises ₹10 Crore to Build GPS-Free Navigation for Drones Bengaluru defence start-up Paar Autonomy has raised ₹10 crore led by AdvantEdge Founders to scale AI camera systems and develop visual-inertial… | 3 min |
| 28 Oct | Biotech | Bharat Biotech Cuts the Price of Its Malaria Vaccine by 40% in a Deal With Gavi and UNICEF Bharat Biotech will cut the price of its RTS,S-based malaria vaccine Mosqivac by about 40%, from €9.30 to €5.50 a dose, from early 2027 under a… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Semis | Sancode Buys Philippine Chip Packager Cirtek Electronics for $20.2 Million to Fast-Track Its Odisha OSAT Plant Sancode Technologies' subsidiary Sancode Semi has agreed to buy Philippine OSAT company Cirtek Electronics for $20.2 million, a deal it says will… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Semis | Nova Spectral AI Raises ₹21 Crore to Build India's Own Quantum-Dot Infrared Image Sensor Five-month-old Bengaluru start-up Nova Spectral AI has raised about ₹21.15 crore, led by Shastra VC, to build lead-free quantum-dot short-wave… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Quantum | C-DAC and Bank of India Sign an MoU to Build Quantum-Safe Tools for Indian Banking C-DAC and Bank of India have signed an MoU for joint research, pilots and training on quantum-safe and quantum-inspired banking tools, along with AI… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | Manastu Space Gets ₹116 Crore From the RDI Fund to Take Its Hydrazine-Free Thrusters to Flight Readiness The Technology Development Board has committed ₹116 crore from the RDI Fund to Manastu Space for a ₹277.63-crore project to take its hydrogen… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | AI | Tata Communications to Spend ₹4,350 Crore on a 10,000-km 'AI Super Highway' Linking India's Data-Centre Hubs Tata Communications will invest about ₹4,350 crore in a 10,000-km AI-ready fibre network that would add roughly 6 Pbps of capacity between India's… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | DAC Clears ₹2.12 Lakh Crore of Acquisition Proposals, With Loitering Munitions, Counter-Drone Systems and VSHORADS for the Army The Rajnath Singh-led Defence Acquisition Council has given in-principle approval to about ₹2.12 lakh crore of proposals, from loitering munitions… | 6 min |
| 28 Oct | Energy | India's Battery Storage Factories Reach 86 GWh, but Cells Remain the Missing Link, Mercom Report Finds A new Mercom India report puts the country's downstream battery storage manufacturing capacity at about 86 GWh, but finds cells make up only about 8%… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | IAF Walks 100 Drone-Industry Representatives Through Its Unmanned Systems Roadmap of 16 Platform Families At a Vigyan Bhawan workshop with Drone Federation India, the IAF briefed around 100 industry representatives on its Unmanned and Autonomous Systems… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | AI | The Chatterjee Group Launches Cortex DC to Build 2 GW of AI-Ready Data Centre Capacity in India The Chatterjee Group's new subsidiary Cortex DC plans to build 2 GW of AI-ready data centre capacity in India over about seven years for hyperscalers… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | AI | Neysa Picks STT GDC's Noida 2 Data Centre for an AI Cloud Build-Out Designed for Up to 9,000 GPUs AI cloud company Neysa will deploy GPU infrastructure and its Velocis platform at STT GDC's Noida 2 data centre, with a first phase designed for up… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Biotech | RGCB Scientists Show How a Pneumonia Toxin Rides on Cell-Shed Vesicles to Damage Neighbouring Cells A BRIC-RGCB study with IISc and TIFR Hyderabad shows the pneumococcal toxin pneumolysin stays active on microvesicles shed by damaged cells and uses… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Semis | Madhya Pradesh Semiconductor Summit Draws ₹5,800 Crore in Proposals as the State Plans Chip and Photonics-Quantum Centres of Excellence Madhya Pradesh's semiconductor summit in Indore drew about ₹5,800 crore in investment proposals and letters of intent for projects including a ₹6,415… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | ISRO Chief Says India Will Have Four Operational Launch Pads by 2029, With the First Uncrewed Gaganyaan Test Due Within Two Months ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan says India will have four operational launch pads by 2029, including a third pad at Sriharikota and the SSLV complex at… | 6 min |
| 28 Oct | Robotics | Hyderabad's LogiXair Raises Seed Funding From GrowthCap Ventures to Build a 300-kg Autonomous Hybrid-Electric Cargo VTOL Hyderabad start-up LogiXair has raised an undisclosed seed round from GrowthCap Ventures and aerospace angel investors to develop the L560, an… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Nano | IIT Madras Physicist's Nature Study Shows a Voltage-Driven Molecular Rotor Can Boost Current Up to 100-Fold A Nature paper with IIT Madras physicist Anil Kumar Singh as a corresponding author shows that a spiral helicene molecule between gold electrodes… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | DRDO's Indigenous AIP Energy Module Enters Phase-2 Setting-to-Work at L&T Hazira, With Kalvari-Class Integration Targeted for Early 2027 DRDO's fuel-cell Air Independent Propulsion energy module has entered Phase-2 setting-to-work at L&T's Hazira complex. It will be powered up and put… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Solar Defence Begins Delivering Nagastra-2 Anti-Tank Loitering Munitions to the Army After Mahajan Trials Solar Defence and Aerospace has started delivering Nagastra-2, a home-grown anti-tank loitering munition with a claimed 650 mm armour penetration and… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Materials | Meerut Start-Up Circulogy Signs MoU for a ₹200 Crore Battery and Rare-Earth Recovery Refinery in Uttar Pradesh Circulogy Cleantech has signed an MoU with Invest UP for a roughly ₹200 crore refinery in Meerut that would recover lithium, cobalt and nickel from… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Apollyon Dynamics Shows the Nightshade Mk-2 Jet Drone, Targets First Army Deliveries of a Target-Drone Variant in December Hyderabad's Apollyon Dynamics has shown the first photos of its Nightshade Mk-2 jet-powered drone and says a target-drone variant is due for Indian… | 3 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | Ex-ISRO Scientist's SpectraGaze Raises ₹3.7 Crore From GVFL to Build Indian Infrared and Space Imaging Sensors Ahmedabad's SpectraGaze Systems, founded by former ISRO scientist Arup Banerjee, has raised a ₹3.7 crore seed round led by GVFL, its first outside… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | AI | Vultr and AMD Plan a 20 MW Instinct MI355X Supercluster in Chennai, India's Largest AMD AI Deployment Cloud provider Vultr will deploy AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs in a 20 MW AI supercluster in Chennai, which it calls India's largest AMD Instinct… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Energy | Vikram Solar Says Its 9 GW TOPCon Cell Plant at Gangaikondan Will Make Its First Cells in December Vikram Solar says its 9 GW N-type TOPCon cell factory in Tamil Nadu is on schedule to produce first cells in December 2026, the second step in a plan… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Tonbo Imaging Lists at a 66% Premium as Investors Back a Home-Grown Thermal-Imaging Maker Tonbo Imaging's shares opened at ₹1,160 on the NSE on 23 October, about 66% above the ₹700 IPO price, and closed near 62% up. The ₹852-crore issue… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Biotech | Dr. Reddy's Wins DCGI Nod for Toripalimab in Advanced Oesophageal Cancer, a Second Indian Indication for the PD-1 Drug India's drug regulator has approved Dr. Reddy's Zytorvi (toripalimab) with chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for advanced oesophageal squamous… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Energy | India Hosts the First AgriVoltaics World Conference in the Global South as a Draft National AgriPV Policy Takes Shape India opened the 7th AgriVoltaics World Conference in New Delhi, the first held in the Global South, and Union Minister Pralhad Joshi said a draft… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | Aditya-L1's Coronagraph Yields Doppler Velocity Maps of the Sun's Corona, Showing Which Way Solar Plasma Moves Indian Institute of Astrophysics scientists have used Aditya-L1's VELC coronagraph to produce Doppler velocity images of the solar corona, showing… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Navy Says Indigenisation Contracts Have Crossed ₹1,900 Crore, Names Quantum Positioning and Ramjets Among Its Next Bets Ahead of Swavlamban 2026, Navy Vice Chief Vice Admiral Ajay Kochhar said indigenous technology contracts have crossed ₹1,900 crore from more than… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | DRDO Picks SSS Defence and Kalyani to Build India's First Home-Grown 20mm Gun for Rudra and Prachand Helicopters DRDO's Pune armament lab has shortlisted SSS Defence and the Kalyani Group as development-cum-production partners for India's first indigenous 20mm… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | Hyderabad's Abyom SpaceTech Gets an Indian Patent for Its Mobile Rocket-Engine Test Facility Hyderabad start-up Abyom SpaceTech & Defence has received Indian Patent No. 600565 for its rocket-engine test facility and method. The company says… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Biotech | Lupin Wins CDSCO Approval for a Nivolumab Biosimilar, Joining India's Race to Cut the Cost of Immunotherapy CDSCO has approved Lupin's biosimilar of Bristol Myers Squibb's Opdivo (nivolumab), backed by a local Phase III trial and made with Hyderabad's… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Energy | Finance Ministry Clears a Polysilicon Support Scheme in Principle, Targeting the Last Missing Link in India's Solar Supply Chain The Finance Ministry has approved in principle MNRE's proposal for a scheme to support domestic polysilicon manufacturing, the one step of India's… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Biotech | Bharat Biotech's Nucelion to Manufacture VeGen Bio's Dual-Target Myeloma CAR-T in Hyderabad, Targeting a 2028 Launch Bharat Biotech's cell and gene therapy arm Nucelion will be the exclusive manufacturer of VeGen Bio's VL-2511, a Phase II dual BCMA/CD19 CAR-T for… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Defence Ministry Signs ₹770 Crore Deal With BEL for Improved Low-Level Radars to Help the Army Spot Small Drones The Defence Ministry has signed a roughly ₹770 crore contract with BEL for Improved Low Level Light Weight Radars, which can detect and track… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | AI | CapitaLand Unveils Chennai 01, a ₹1,940-Crore Liquid-Cooled Data Centre Built for AI Workloads Singapore's Deputy PM Gan Kim Yong and Tamil Nadu CM C. Joseph Vijay unveiled CapitaLand's 53 MW Chennai 01 data centre in Ambattur, which will offer… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | AI | IBM and MeitY Startup Hub Sign MoU to Open Enterprise AI and Quantum Tools to Indian Deep-Tech Start-Ups At IBM Think 2026 in Mumbai, IBM and MeitY Startup Hub agreed to give deep-tech start-ups guidance on watsonx, IBM Bob and Sovereign Core, along with… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Robotics | Survey of India Orders ideaForge's Q6 V2 Drones for National Mapping Work ideaForge has won an order from the Survey of India for its DGCA-certified Q6 V2 survey drones, which will collect aerial and geospatial data. The… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Biotech | Biocon Settles With Genentech, Locking In 2027 Europe and 2028 US Launch Windows for Its Perjeta Biosimilar Biocon's global patent settlement with Genentech gives its pertuzumab biosimilar Pebrilzo licensed launch dates from Q1 2027 in the EU and UK and Q3… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Tonbo Imaging's ₹852-Crore IPO Closes 136 Times Subscribed as Institutions Pile Into Defence Electronics Bengaluru thermal-imaging and night-vision maker Tonbo Imaging's offer-for-sale IPO drew bids for about 136 times the shares on offer, with qualified… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Robotics | IAF Inducts Swadeshi Empresa's FF Bot, Making the iDEX Firefighting Robot a Tri-Service Product The Indian Air Force has inducted the FF Bot, a remotely operated firefighting robot built by Ahmedabad start-up Swadeshi Empresa under iDEX, for… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Energy | ADB and Japan Back AM Green's Kakinada Green Ammonia Plant With a $100 Million Loan The first investment under ADB and Japan's ACCEL energy-security initiative is a $100 million LEAP-2 loan to convert a former gas-based ammonia… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Materials | Nexon Geochem Plans a ₹1,250 Crore Rare-Earth Magnet Plant in Kakinada to Cut India's Dependence on China Nexon Geochem has signed an MoU with Andhra Pradesh for a 600-tonne-a-year sintered NdFeB magnet plant at Kakinada, with first output targeted for… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Biotech | ICMR Picks Seven Institutions, From IIT Madras to Amrita, to Build India's Priority Medical Devices and Diagnostics ICMR has selected five IITs, IISc and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham as Centres for Advanced Research, each eligible for up to ₹15 crore over five years… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Biotech | Zydus and Formycon's Keytruda Biosimilar Becomes the First Publicly Announced One Accepted for US FDA Review The US FDA has accepted for review the application for FYB206, a pembrolizumab biosimilar that Zydus will sell in the US and Canada, with a decision… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Quantum | IISc and Samsung Semiconductor India Research Open a Quantum Lab Focused on Qubits and Cryogenic Electronics A Samsung-funded quantum research lab has opened at IISc Bengaluru to work on qubit characterisation, cryogenic electronics and single-photon… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | EtherealX Opens The Anchorage, a 150-Acre Rocket Engine Test Complex Near Sriharikota Bengaluru's Ethereal Exploration Guild has unveiled a 150-acre test and development site in Tirupati district for its reusable Razor Crest Mk 1… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Solar Defence Delivers 450 Nagastra-1R Loitering Munitions to the Army in a Single Batch Nagpur's Solar Defence and Aerospace has handed the Indian Army 450 recoverable Nagastra-1R kamikaze drones in one consignment, which the company… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | ISRO Clears Gaganyaan's Crew Module–Service Module Separation Tests Ahead of the Uncrewed G1 Flight ISRO has completed ground tests of the system that separates Gaganyaan's crew capsule from its service module, confirming that critical avionics… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | OrbitAID Lines Up an SSLV Flight and a 2027 Docking Mission to Prove Satellites Can Be Refuelled in Orbit Chennai's OrbitAID Aerospace plans to fly AayulSAT-1A on ISRO's SSLV in November to test fuel transfer, then launch two 70 kg satellites in early… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Robotics | ISRO Picks Pune's Muks Robotics to Develop SPACEO Prime, a Humanoid Built to Work in Space Pune-based Muks Robotics says ISRO has selected it to develop SPACEO Prime, a bipedal humanoid meant to take on hazardous or repetitive tasks for… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | AI | Sarvam Launches Bulbul V4 Flash, a Faster and Cheaper Voice Model for 11 Indian Languages Sarvam AI's new text-to-speech model starts speaking in under 250 ms, runs up to 40% faster than Bulbul V3 and costs ₹20 per 10,000 characters, a… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Robotics | India-Founded Origin Comes Out of Stealth With $20 Million to Put Wall-Finishing Robots on Construction Sites Origin, a physical-AI company with a robotics team of about 45 in Bengaluru, has raised $20 million co-led by Accel and Zacua Ventures. Its OG-1… | 6 min |
| 28 Oct | Materials | Scimplify Raises $25 Million Led by Hitachi Ventures to Build a Non-Chinese Supply of Critical Materials The Bengaluru specialty-chemicals platform, now backed by customers Henkel and Teknor Apex, will push into rare-earth and critical metals… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Quantum | TDB Puts ₹150 Crore Into QNu Labs to Build India's Quantum-Secure and Sensing Network Backbone The Technology Development Board will fund half of a ₹300 crore QNu Labs project, through convertible debt from the RDI Fund, to take quantum… | 6 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | NewSpace's Sheshnaag-150 Strike Drone Completes Its First Rocket-Assisted Take-Off Trial NewSpace Research & Technologies has fired the 1,000 km-class Sheshnaag-150 from a rocket booster for the first time, a step towards runway-free… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Navy Commissions INS Samarthak, a Drone Mothership and Trials Ship Built by L&T India's first multi-purpose vessel, built by L&T at Kattupalli with over 75% indigenous content, joined the Navy at Karwar on 16 October as a host… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Quantum | MIT Bengaluru Opens a 25-Qubit Quantum Hub and Aims to Train 100 Quantum Engineers by December MIT Bengaluru has opened Quantum-Hub@MAHE with a 25-qubit open-architecture system built with four European partners. Its first goal is to train 100… | 3 min |
| 28 Oct | Materials | Chennai's ThinkMetal Raises ₹27 Crore to Take Filament-Based Metal 3D Printing to Industry Chennai's ThinkMetal has raised ₹27 crore in a round led by IAN Alpha Fund. It will use the money to move its SistemT1 metal 3D printer and FuseX… | 3 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Drogo Aerospace's JK 250e Becomes Its Sixth DGCA Type-Certified Drone, With Army Deliveries Already Under Way Hyderabad's Drogo Aerospace has won DGCA type certification for its JK 250e hybrid VTOL surveillance drone, its sixth certified model. The Army began… | 3 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | Ahmedabad's Cosmochute Raises $1.5 Million From Accel and Prosus to Build Rovers for the Lunar Economy Cosmochute, a lunar-robotics start-up with Chandrayaan-1 project director Mylswamy Annadurai as chief scientist, has raised $1.5 million in a round… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | US Space-Mirror Start-Up Reflect Orbital Books Two Dedicated Launches on Skyroot's Vikram Rockets Reflect Orbital, the US company that wants to beam sunlight from orbiting mirrors, has bought two dedicated launches from Skyroot Aerospace. It is an… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Misc | RDI Fund Names Its First 19 Fund Managers, Committing ₹7,131 Crore to Take Indian Research to Market India's ₹1 lakh crore RDI Fund has picked 14 venture funds and five research organisations for its first cohort, committing ₹7,131 crore. Bengaluru's… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Semis | Tamil Nadu Launches a Semiconductor Scheme That Stacks Up to 25% State Support on Top of Semicon 2.0 Tamil Nadu's new semiconductor scheme adds up to 25% state capital support on top of the Centre's Semicon 2.0 incentives. A second track also funds… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Energy | Private Firms Could Invest ₹7.5 Lakh Crore and Add 30 GW of Nuclear Power by 2047, Says AEC Chief Atomic Energy Commission chairman Ajit Kumar Mohanty expects private companies to invest about ₹7.5 lakh crore and contribute 30 GW to India's 100 GW… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | Ex-ISRO Engineers' OXG Space Raises ₹17 Crore to Build 'Edge Cell Towers' in Orbit Bengaluru's OXG Space has raised ₹17 crore led by Aum Ventures, with Skyroot's co-founders joining, to demonstrate in-orbit relay and computing… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Defence Ministry Signs ₹4,106 Crore Deals for IAF's GSAT-7C Satellite and Navy's Varunastra Torpedoes The Ministry of Defence has signed a ₹2,563 crore contract with NSIL for GSAT-7C, the IAF's first dedicated communication satellite, and a ₹1,543… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Quantum | DRDO Tests Quantum Key Distribution on the Live Network of Its Chandipur Weapons Test Range DRDO has configured and tested a quantum key distribution platform on the live network of its Proof & Experimental Establishment at Chandipur… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Robotics | Kochi's EyeROV Delivers the First Indian-Built Military-Grade Underwater Robots to the Navy Kochi-based EyeROV has delivered the first two of five iDEX-developed TROUT military-grade underwater ROVs to the Indian Navy under a reported… | 3 min |
| 28 Oct | Materials | Ex-Solara CEO's NuSynth Raises ₹36.5 Crore Seed Round to Rebuild How India Makes Pharma and Electronics Chemicals NuSynth Technologies, co-founded by former Solara Active Pharma CEO Poorvank Purohit, has raised a ₹36.5-crore seed round co-led by Avaana Capital… | 3 min |
| 28 Oct | Misc | Nilekani-Anchored F2A Closes ₹3,000 Crore for Growth-Stage AI and Deep-Tech Bets, Lifts Hard Cap to ₹3,500 Crore Fundamentum Frontier Advisors, anchored by Nandan Nilekani, has closed ₹3,000 crore for a growth-stage AI and deep-tech fund and raised its hard cap… | 3 min |
| 28 Oct | Energy | Vikram Solar's VSL PowerHive Plans a 7.5 GWh Battery-Storage Assembly Plant Near Chennai, With Cell-Making to Follow in 2028 Vikram Solar's storage arm VSL PowerHive will build a 7.5 GWh-a-year battery-storage assembly plant at Oragadam near Chennai, due to start commercial… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Bengaluru's Flying Wedge Unveils FWD Supreme, a Full-Scale Mock-Up for an AI-Piloted Combat Aircraft Family Bengaluru start-up Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace has unveiled a full-scale static prototype of FWD Supreme, a planned AI-piloted flying-wing… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Semis | Hero Electronix's Tessolve Raises $75 Million From Vector Line Capital to Buy Its Way Up the Chip-Design Value Chain Tessolve Semiconductor, owned by Hero Electronix, has raised $75 million led by US chip investor Vector Line Capital — its first India deal — and… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Tonbo Imaging Prices Its ₹852-Crore IPO at ₹665–700, Putting a Home-Grown Thermal-Imaging Maker in Front of Public Investors Bengaluru defence-electronics maker Tonbo Imaging has priced its ₹852-crore, offer-for-sale-only IPO at ₹665–700 a share, valuing it at about ₹4,010… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Army Orders 225 FPV Drones From Gurugram's Aerodrone Robotics After Trials at 17,500 Feet The Army has ordered 225 seven-inch FPV drones worth about ₹1.97 crore from Innovision subsidiary Aerodrone Robotics, after trials at up to 17,500… | 3 min |
| 28 Oct | Semis | Kaynes Semicon Asks Foreign Chip Firms to Partner in India as Its Sanand Plant Ramps Up Kaynes Semicon CEO Raghu Panicker says India needs foreign chip firms to build its ecosystem, as the company seeks joint ventures to fill a gap in… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Nano | IIT Guwahati and IIT Kharagpur Build a Light-Sensing MXene Synapse That Sees, Remembers and Processes An IIT Guwahati–IIT Kharagpur team has built an MXene and P3HT device that senses light, remembers it and processes it, using about 500 times less… | 3 min |
| 28 Oct | AI | Sarvam in Talks to Raise $250–300 Million at a Reported $3 Billion Valuation Sarvam is reportedly in early talks to raise $250–300 million at about a $3 billion valuation, double the $1.5 billion it was valued at in its… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Neuro | PM Modi Launches IIT Madras Brain Centre's Mission to Map 100-Plus Human Brains in 3D at Cell Resolution PM Modi has launched IIT Madras's mission to build 3D, cell-resolution atlases of more than 100 human brains from the foetal stage to old age. He… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Navy Commissions INS Mangrol, the Third Cochin-Built Mahe-Class Anti-Submarine Craft The Navy has commissioned INS Mangrol, the third Cochin Shipyard-built Mahe-class anti-submarine shallow water craft, with more than 80% indigenous… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Energy | Tata Power's TP Solar Makes 0.9 GW of Cells and 1 GW of Modules in Q2, Running Its Tirunelveli Plant Near Capacity TP Solar produced 1 GW of modules and 0.9 GW of solar cells in July–September 2026, taking first-half output to 2 GW and 1.8 GW from its 4.3 GW… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | AI | MeitY Picks CoRover to Build a Shared Agentic AI Platform for Government, Starting With DigiLocker MeitY's National e-Governance Division has selected Bengaluru's CoRover.ai to build a reusable agentic AI platform for government departments, with… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | AI | Uttar Pradesh Approves a State AI Mission to Back 100 Start-Ups, Train 5 Lakh Youth and Build a GPU-Backed 'UP AI Stack' The Uttar Pradesh cabinet has approved UP-AIM, an independent society that will build shared AI infrastructure for state departments, support at… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Defence Secretary Sets Timeline to Hand DRDO Missile Technology to Private Industry, Sees $25 Billion-a-Year Opportunity At the SIDM annual session, Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh outlined plans to transfer conventional missile technology to private firms for… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Honeywell to Double HTT-40 Engine Deliveries to Eight by Year-End, Easing the Bottleneck on HAL's Indigenous Trainer Honeywell expects to deliver eight TPE331-12B engines for HAL's HTT-40 basic trainer by the end of 2026 and 16 by mid-2027, after supply-chain delays… | 6 min |
| 28 Oct | Nano | IIT Gandhinagar-Led Team Publishes a MOF Recipe That Strips Toxic Metals and Recovers Rare Earths From Wastewater A Nature Protocols paper from IIT Gandhinagar, Cambridge and Birmingham details how copper-based metal–organic frameworks can capture lead and… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Materials | izmo Microsystems and IIT Madras Begin ₹99.94-Crore Phase II of India's Silicon Photonics Programme izmo Microsystems and IIT Madras have started SPECTRA, a five-year, MeitY-funded silicon photonics programme targeting data-centre optics, microwave… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Materials | IIT Delhi Spin-Out IndigoTex Raises ₹5 Crore to Take Waterless Wool Finishing From Lab to Factory IIT Delhi spin-out IndigoTex has raised ₹5 crore led by IAN Angel Fund, with SIDBI, FITT and IIT Delhi Angels, to build a Sonipat plant for its… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Coast Guard Commissions ICGS Ajit, the Seventh Goa-Built Adamya-Class Fast Patrol Vessel The Indian Coast Guard has commissioned ICGS Ajit at Goa Shipyard, the seventh of eight indigenous Adamya-class fast patrol vessels; the 52-metre… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Energy | From Radiation Antidote to Battery Cathode: Udaipur's Macsen Energy Says Its Sodium-Ion Cell Has Passed 1,500 Cycles Udaipur's Macsen Energy, spun out of a Prussian Blue drug-ingredient maker, says its Prussian White sodium-ion cell has passed 1,500 cycles in lab… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Misc | Bharat 6G Alliance Signs Five Global Pacts and Releases Working-Group White Papers as India Seeks a Seat at 6G's Design Table At the 3rd International Bharat 6G Symposium during IMC 2026, the Bharat 6G Alliance signed MoUs with GSMA, one6G and three other bodies and released… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Defence Ministry Opens Its Proof Ranges and Test Facilities to Industry, Waives Fees for iDEX and TDF Projects Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a revised SOP that lists DRDO, quality-assurance and Services test ranges open to industry and waives… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | Jio Is Building an Indigenous Satellite Stack and Has Begun Filing Pre-6G Patents, Says Akash Ambani At India Mobile Congress 2026, Jio chairman Akash Ambani said the operator is building an end-to-end indigenous satellite communications stack and… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | Navy's First Indigenous Fleet Support Ship Surya Launched at Hindustan Shipyard Rajnath Singh launched FSS-1 Surya, the first of five 82%-indigenous fleet tankers being built by Hindustan Shipyard under a ₹19,000-crore contract… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | AI | India to Release a Draft AI Regulation Paper Within 30 Days, and Targets Indigenous GPUs in Three to Four Years IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said MeitY will publish an AI regulation consultation paper covering safety, deepfakes and psychological harms within a… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Misc | Tejas Networks and Qualcomm Turn a 5G Base Station Into a Sensor in a 6G ISAC Demo Tejas Networks and Qualcomm are demonstrating 6G Integrated Sensing and Communications at India Mobile Congress 2026, using a Tejas 5G base station… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | ISRO Staff Associations Write Again to the Chairman, Saying Privatisation Questions Remain Unanswered A council of nine ISRO employee associations wrote to Chairman V Narayanan on 7 October seeking clarity on the agency's future mandate as… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | AI | Sarvam AI hires ex-Google Cloud India chief Sashikumar Sreedharan to sell sovereign AI to enterprises Sarvam AI has appointed former Google Cloud India MD Sashikumar Sreedharan as President and Chief Business Officer, signalling a push from… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Robotics | Garuda Aerospace reportedly raises $10 million pre-IPO at a $320 million valuation Chennai drone maker Garuda Aerospace has reportedly raised about $10 million from the Motherson family office and Aditum Investment Group ahead of a… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Materials | Indian scientists build a metal-free catalyst that nears platinum for zinc-air batteries and fuel cells Researchers from S N Bose National Centre, INST Mohali and SRM University Amaravati report a carbon-sulphur-nitrogen framework that reaches about 96%… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Space | Agnikul puts its 3D-printed Agnite engine through throttling sweeps ahead of Agnibaan Mission-02 Agnikul Cosmos hot-fired its single-piece, 3D-printed Agnite booster engine through thrust sweeps and a long-duration burn, a key step towards… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Energy | NTPC picks Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha sites for nuclear plants in its 30 GW-by-2047 push NTPC has submitted feasibility reports for three nuclear sites and is weighing reactor partnerships with Westinghouse, Holtec, Rosatom and EDF as it… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Misc | TDB pauses intake to the ₹1 lakh crore RDI fund as government insists there is no shortage of money The Technology Development Board closed its RDI call on 30 September, citing administrative reasons; the science ministry says funds are ample but a… | 5 min |
| 28 Oct | Semis | Tata's Jagiroad chip plant in Assam completes its first clean room and starts pilot production Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says Tata Electronics' ₹27,000 crore chip assembly and test plant at Jagiroad has begun pilot production, with a PM… | 4 min |
| 28 Oct | Defence | HAL Koraput delivers its 2,000th aero-engine as India expands Shakti and AL-31FP production HAL's Koraput Division in Odisha delivered its 2,000th aero-engine on 6 October, as Defence Minister Rajnath Singh unveiled ₹553 crore of expansions… | 5 min |
| 8 Oct | Biotech | India-Manufactured Bundibugyo Ebola Vaccine Candidate Enters a Phase I Study in Uganda A Uganda study will test safety and immune responses to Oxford’s investigational Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine, manufactured by Serum Institute of India… | 2 min |
| 8 Oct | Misc | Startup Policy Forum Launches DeepVerse to Carry Deep-Tech Founders' Concerns Into Policymaking The Startup Policy Forum has launched DeepVerse, a Centre for DeepTech Innovation with an 18-member advisory board drawn from Accel, Ather, Skyroot… | 3 min |
| 8 Oct | Misc | India's National Supercomputing Mission Reaches 40 Systems and 68 Petaflops India’s National Supercomputing Mission now has 40 systems and 68 petaflops of capacity, according to October reporting, compared with the official… | 3 min |
| 8 Oct | Biotech | Sunfox Technologies Raises $7 Million to Take Its Spandan Pocket ECG From Dehradun to the World Dehradun-based Sunfox Technologies has raised about $7 million in a Series A led by Ashish Kacholia, Lashit Sanghvi, Alchemy Capital and 3one4… | 3 min |
| 8 Oct | Biotech | Serum Institute's Cervavac Wins WHO Prequalification, Taking India's Home-Grown HPV Vaccine Global WHO has prequalified Serum Institute of India's Cervavac, the country's first home-grown HPV vaccine, so UN agencies can now procure it. The… | 4 min |
| 8 Oct | Quantum | Quanfluence Raises $10 Million to Build a Full-Stack Photonic Quantum Computer in India IIT Madras-incubated Quanfluence has raised $10 million in a round led by Chiratae Ventures, with Rainmatter and Pi Ventures. It will use the money… | 4 min |
| 7 Oct | Energy | IISc Maps 9,389 Copper-Catalyst Reactions to Explain How CO₂ Becomes Methanol An IISc-led framework combines quantum calculations, machine learning and kinetic modelling to recover missing reaction pathways and match… | 3 min |
| 7 Oct | Quantum | IIT Delhi Sends Entangled Photons Over 50 km of Fibre Alongside Classical Telecom Data IIT Delhi demonstrated quantum-entangled photons and classical data sharing a 50 km optical-fibre link under controlled conditions, a step towards… | 4 min |
| 7 Oct | Defence | ideaForge Launches ZOLT Hybrid and ZOLT UCAV, Moving Into Long-Range Surveillance and Combat Drones The Mumbai drone maker's two new ZOLT variants offer more than six hours of hybrid endurance and a battery-powered strike version, both built on an… | 4 min |
| 7 Oct | Defence | Defence Ministry Signs ₹661.5 Crore Contract for Indigenous BrahMos Launchers and Fire Control for Navy Warships The Buy (Indian-IDDM) order with BrahMos Aerospace requires at least 68% indigenous content and covers the shipborne launchers and fire control… | 4 min |
| 7 Oct | Space | Dhruva Space's LEAP-2 Reaches Orbit Carrying a French Star Tracker on India's P-30 Satellite Platform Launched on SpaceX's Transporter-18, Dhruva Space's second commercial P-30 mission is testing Sodern's HORUS star tracker in orbit alongside a SatLeo… | 5 min |
| 7 Oct | Energy | NPCIL and BARC Release the Project Report for SMR-55, India's 55 MWe Small Reactor for Data Centres and Industry The detailed project report for the indigenous SMR-55 pressurised water reactor, released on 1 October, follows the BSMR-300 report and moves India's… | 6 min |
| 7 Oct | Defence | DRDO's Agra Lab Reports a 21 km Airship Flight and a 16,000-Foot Parachute Jump ADRDE Agra's stratospheric airship held about 20 km for over 30 minutes and its new high-altitude parachute completed a maiden live jump over Ladakh… | 6 min |
| 6 Oct | Robotics | Andhra Pradesh Starts a 177-Home 3D Concrete Printing Pilot, With Delivery and Performance Still Ahead A ₹14-crore pilot will use 3D concrete printing for 177 houses in two Andhra Pradesh villages. The foundation has been laid; the six-month delivery… | 3 min |
| 6 Oct | Quantum | QpiAI Raises ₹50 Crore in Debt From InnoVen Capital as India's Quantum Hardware Builder Scales Up Entrackr reports a ₹50-crore InnoVen Capital debt issue by QpiAI through 5,000 non-convertible debentures, carrying a 13.85% annual coupon and… | 4 min |
| 6 Oct | Defence | DRDO Pune Builds Lightweight STANAG Level 6 Armour for India's Next Tanks and Infantry Vehicles, Opens It to Industry DRDO's R&DE(E) laboratory in Pune has developed and tested indigenous lightweight armour panels rated to stop 30 mm armour-piercing rounds (STANAG… | 3 min |
| 6 Oct | Space | EON Space Labs' 502-Gram MIRA Telescope Reaches Orbit on Transporter-18, Testing India's Bet on Home-Grown Space Optics EON Space Labs’ 502-gram MIRA telescope reached orbit inside TakeMe2Space’s MOI-1A on Transporter-18. The nine-band payload is designed for roughly… | 5 min |
| 5 Oct | Space | ISRO’s Planned ISTRAC Radar Research Facility Opens a Shared-Experiment Agenda The proposed IARRF brings atmospheric and space-weather radar research into a common programme involving universities, industry and startups. ISRO… | 2 min |
| 5 Oct | Semis | BigEndian’s Project VeerAI Targets a Camera-Focused AI Vision Chip, With Validation Still Ahead TDB’s RDI support backs development of a surveillance-focused system-on-chip from TRL-5 towards commercial readiness. The announcement sets a… | 2 min |
| 5 Oct | Misc | Andhra Pradesh Bets on IIT Alumni With a ₹500-Crore Deep-Tech Fund and Q-Shiva Quantum Test Lab At the PanIIT Andhra Pradesh Summit, Chandrababu Naidu proposed a permanent council and a ₹500-crore venture fund, highlighted Q-Shiva quantum test… | 4 min |
| 5 Oct | Quantum | QNu Labs, BISAG-N and IIT Gandhinagar Run India's First 5.56-km Free-Space Quantum Key Link A night-time field trial in Gandhinagar sent quantum-secured keys through 5.56 km of open air with an error rate under 5%, then used them in… | 5 min |
| 4 Oct | Space | ISRO Prepares NVS-03 for a Reported Mid-October NavIC Revival Attempt September reporting says ISRO is preparing NVS-03 for a mid-October launch to help restore NavIC’s standalone positioning service; launch timing and… | 5 min |
| 4 Oct | Misc | Q3 2026 Funding: Deep Tech Raises $290 Million as Investors Back Fewer, Bigger Hardware Bets Third-quarter reports from Inc42, Entrackr and Tracxn show modest overall startup funding growth but a 176% jump in deep-tech investment, led by… | 4 min |
| 4 Oct | Defence | IG Defence Test-Fires Rocket Motors for JWALA, a Private Indian Micro-Missile Built to Kill Drones Private defence firm IG Defence has successfully test-fired two solid rocket motors for JWALA, a low-cost micro-missile it is developing as the… | 4 min |
| 4 Oct | AI | IBM Deepens IIT Bombay and IISc Partnerships to Build Indic AI, AI Agents and Quantum-HPC Workflows IBM has expanded its research collaborations with IIT Bombay and IISc, focusing on sovereign and Indic language models, agentic AI, Granite-based… | 4 min |
| 4 Oct | Defence | Akash Goes to Central Asia: India Confirms Air-Defence Exports to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh has confirmed that India's DRDO-developed Akash air-defence system, first exported to Armenia, has also been… | 5 min |
| 3 Oct | Biotech | IISc Uses Blue Light to Control Spindle Assembly in Engineered Human Cells A reversible optogenetic research tool clusters Aurora A and substantially rescues spindle defects in engineered cells, helping researchers dissect… | 2 min |
| 3 Oct | AI | Deep Algorithm’s Earlier ₹16-Crore Round Backs Behavioural Identity for India’s Banks The Hyderabad-based, IIT Mandi-incubated AI cybersecurity start-up raised a pre-Series A round led by Unicorn India Ventures to take its… | 4 min |
| 3 Oct | Biotech | PRIP's first round backs 41 pharma and medtech projects with ₹1,600 crore, opens early drug-discovery track The Department of Pharmaceuticals has sanctioned 41 projects, from Biocon and Sun Pharma to Bugworks and Pandorum, and launched a discovery track… | 4 min |
| 3 Oct | Energy | Cabinet clears ₹1.86 lakh crore Green Energy Corridor-III with 50 GWh of battery storage GEC-III will fund 51,126 ckm of state transmission lines and 50 GWh of battery storage to evacuate 135 GW of renewable power by FY 2032-33, tackling… | 5 min |
| 3 Oct | Materials | DRDO and CSIR-CGCRI Develop Nanocrystal Glass Targeting Lighter Armoured-Vehicle Windows A ₹50-crore, four-year DRDO–CSIR-CGCRI programme is developing transparent glass-ceramic armour aimed at BIS Level V–VI protection with 30–50% less… | 4 min |
| 3 Oct | Defence | IAF signs ₹135-crore deal with start-up Threye for Mirage 2000 part-task trainers The Indian Air Force has contracted NewSpace Research subsidiary Threye Interactive for VR-based, networked part-task trainers for its Mirage 2000… | 5 min |
| 2 Oct | Defence | Navy Plans a Record 18 Warship Additions in 2026 as Rajnath Singh Pushes for Exports At the Naval Commanders' Conference on 29 September, Rajnath Singh said the Navy will induct 18 warships in 2026, its largest single-year addition… | 4 min |
| 2 Oct | Defence | Kaveri Dry Engine Reported to Clear Russian Trials at 48.5 kN, With Certification Ahead September reporting says DRDO's GTRE Kaveri dry engine completed Russian trials with 48.5 kN peak dry thrust. CEMILAC certification and integration… | 5 min |
| 2 Oct | Energy | Simple Energy Raises ₹1,750 Crore Series C to Scale Its Rare-Earth-Light EV Platform Bengaluru EV maker Simple Energy has raised ₹1,750 crore in an all-equity Series C led by the Dr. Arokiaswamy Velumani Family Office, its largest… | 5 min |
| 2 Oct | AI | Aignosis Raises ₹4 Crore to Take Webcam-Based AI Autism Screening Beyond Rajasthan Jaipur startup Aignosis, which screens children for autism using a laptop webcam and computer vision, has raised a ₹4 crore seed round backed by… | 4 min |
| 1 Oct | Space | ISRO Brings Academic Researchers Together to Shape the Next Chandrayaan Science Programme A September 28–30 national meet at LEOS brought lunar researchers and students into discussions of mission lessons, sample return and polar-volatiles… | 2 min |
| 1 Oct | Materials | Waaree Moves Into Ultra-Pure Specialty Gases for India's Chip and Solar-Cell Fabs Waaree Clean Energy Solutions is entering specialty gases with a planned Dahej facility for ultra-high-purity ammonia, phosphine blends, oxygen and… | 5 min |
| 1 Oct | Space | Navy Chief Asks Skyroot to Build India's Military Space Capability 'in Mission Mode' At the NDTV Defence Summit, Admiral Krishna Swaminathan invited Skyroot Aerospace to integrate with the armed forces and help build sovereign space… | 4 min |
| 1 Oct | Misc | Peak XV Raises Surge's Seed Cheque to $5 Million as Deep Tech Needs Bigger Early Rounds Peak XV Partners has raised its Surge seed cheque ceiling from $3 million to $5 million and unveiled an 18-startup cohort that includes… | 3 min |
| 1 Oct | Semis | SiMa.ai, an Edge-AI Chipmaker With Deep Bengaluru Roots, Becomes a $1.45 Billion Unicorn SiMa.ai, which designs physical-AI chips with a large engineering base in Bengaluru, raised a $150 million Series C co-led by Fidelity and Amplify at… | 4 min |
| 1 Oct | AI | Sarvam Releases Saaras V4 and Vision 2.1 to Hear and Read India's 22 Languages Sarvam AI has released Saaras V4, a fast speech-to-text model for 22 Indian languages and English, and Vision 2.1, a document model that reads Indic… | 5 min |
| 1 Oct | Space | SatLeo Labs Readies TAPAS-1, a Commercial Thermal-Imaging Payload, for Launch Ahmedabad startup SatLeo Labs is scheduled to fly TAPAS-1, a thermal-imaging payload hosted on Dhruva Space's LEAP-2 mission, aboard SpaceX's… | 4 min |
| 1 Oct | Energy | India Lays the Foundation for Its First Port-Based E-Methanol Plant at Kandla A ₹2,300-crore, 150-tonne-a-day e-methanol plant at Deendayal Port in Kandla, a joint venture with Assam Petro-Chemicals, aims to supply green fuel… | 5 min |
| 1 Oct | Energy | AM Green Wins Germany's H2Global Asian Auction With a €585 Million Green Ammonia Deal From Kakinada AM Green has been named sole winner of the Asian lot in Germany's state-backed H2Global auction, securing a 10-year contract worth at least €585… | 5 min |
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| 30 Sept | Space | ePlane’s Development Programme Targets the Gap Between Prototype and Operation A newly backed programme aims to advance the Chennai company’s e200X from TRL 6 to TRL 9. Its separate lift and forward-propulsion systems make… | 3 min |
| 30 Sept | Semis | Multi Nano Sense Targets a Compact MEMS Gas Sensor and Readout Chip The Nagpur company’s new development programme combines a MEMS sensing element with a custom analogue front end. Sub-200-millisecond response and a… | 3 min |
| 30 Sept | Misc | India Lines Up $25 Billion for Deep Tech as It Chases the US and China Combining the government's RDI Fund with matching venture and private-equity capital, India has about $25 billion available for deep-tech investment… | 6 min |
| 30 Sept | Semis | India Seeks and Gets Tata's Assurance on $14 Billion Chip Plans Amid Boardroom Rift MeitY sought assurance that Tata's Dholera fab and Jagiroad assembly plant would stay on track as Tata Sons and Tata Trusts clash over Chairman N… | 5 min |
| 30 Sept | Defence | Paras Defence Wins DRDO Order to Build Optics for a Space-Borne Hyperspectral Payload Paras Defence will act as lead system integrator for the optics and opto-mechanical unit of a DRDO hyperspectral space payload under a ₹26.59 crore… | 4 min |
| 30 Sept | Energy | Maruti Suzuki Turns Surplus Solar Into Green Hydrogen at Manesar Maruti Suzuki has commissioned a 300 kW electrolyser at Manesar that uses surplus solar power to make green hydrogen, which is blended with natural… | 4 min |
| 30 Sept | Energy | Exide Energy Solutions Commissions a 6 GWh Lithium-Ion Cell Plant in Bengaluru Exide Industries' subsidiary EESL has commissioned Phase I of its Devanahalli cell factory, with 6 GWh of NMC and LFP capacity across cylindrical and… | 6 min |
| 30 Sept | AI | IIT Indore's HGAST Fixes Gender Errors in English-to-Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati Speech Translation IIT Indore researchers have built HGAST, a correction layer that detects a speaker's gender from their voice and fixes wrongly gendered verbs in… | 4 min |
| 30 Sept | Space | TakeMe2Space Readies MOI-1A, an Orbital Computing Satellite, for a SpaceX Rideshare Hyderabad's TakeMe2Space will fly MOI-1A, a sub-50 kg satellite built around Nvidia Orin NX processors, on SpaceX's Transporter-18 on 1 October, with… | 6 min |
| 29 Sept | AI | IISc’s AdaptiveSplat Uses Texture to Make 3D Scene Representations Smaller Highlighted by IISc on 23 September, the ECCV 2026 work selectively removes redundant Gaussian primitives. Its compact scene representation should… | 3 min |
| 29 Sept | Materials | CSIR-SERC Transfers Geopolymer Block Technology to a Rajapalayam Manufacturer The transfer to Archana Blocks extends a cement-replacement process towards industrial use. Its ambient-curing approach is documented, while… | 3 min |
| 29 Sept | Energy | Ultraviolette Raises $85 Million Series E Led by Deep-Tech Fund Yali Capital and TDK Ventures Bengaluru EV maker Ultraviolette has raised $85 million to scale production, launch new platforms and enter the US in 2027, with investors citing its… | 5 min |
| 29 Sept | Energy | Chevron ENGINE and IIT Madras Launch an Energy Technology Incubation Programme Chevron's Bengaluru engineering centre and IIT Madras have launched an incubation programme offering prototype validation, grants and mentorship to… | 4 min |
| 29 Sept | Misc | Asiana Fund and Taiwan's JC Capital Launch ₹1,000-Crore Advanced Manufacturing Fund The Asiana-JCC Advanced Manufacturing & Innovation Fund will back 12–15 Series A and B companies in robotics, semiconductors, materials and… | 4 min |
| 29 Sept | Defence | Defence Secretary Wants DRDO to Cut 37 Projects to About 10 and Hand Production to Industry Defence Secretary and DRDO chief Rajesh Kumar Singh has called for DRDO to focus on around 10 cutting-edge programmes, down from about 37, with… | 5 min |
| 29 Sept | Semis | IIT Delhi Builds India's First Indigenous Micro-GPU, Charts a Path to 65nm Silicon IIT Delhi researchers have demonstrated an indigenously designed micro-GPU running on an FPGA, with a roadmap to a multi-core design, a compiler… | 5 min |
| 28 Sept | Robotics | IIT Madras and Bechtel Open a Lab to Take Construction Robotics Towards Field Trials The new laboratory connects academic prototypes with construction-industry problems. Its announced programme includes testing and demonstrations… | 2 min |
| 28 Sept | Biotech | Hyderabad Engineers Patent a Microwave Antenna to Screen for Breast and Skin Cancer A VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute team led by Professor K. Vidya Sagar has patented a microstrip antenna that flags tumour-like tissue by measuring… | 5 min |
| 28 Sept | Defence | SAT-SAAW Order Sets a Production Milestone for an Indian-Designed Glide Weapon The Defence Ministry’s order for 160 SAT-SAAW systems links DRDO design to BDL production. The announced delivery window and domestic-content target… | 2 min |
| 28 Sept | Quantum | Yenepoya University and Edutecnicia Launch a Quantum AI Catalyst Lab in Mangaluru Yenepoya University has signed on with Bengaluru AI firm Edutecnicia to build a joint Quantum AI Catalyst Lab in Mangaluru, betting that hands-on… | 4 min |
| 27 Sept | Space | GalaxEye’s Next OptoSAR Programme Targets Sub-Half-Metre Imaging The development programme aims to combine radar and optical observations at finer resolution. Its target must be distinguished from the… | 3 min |
| 27 Sept | Space | Agnikul’s Reuse Programme Targets the Upper Stage as Well as the Booster A new TDB-backed programme sets out restartable propulsion, controlled descent and an ambition for full-system reuse. Operational recovery and… | 3 min |
| 27 Sept | Misc | IIT Madras and Unicorn India Ventures Mark ₹450 Crore First Close of Deep-Tech Fund IIT Madras Research Park and Unicorn India Ventures have marked a ₹450 crore first close of their ₹1,000 crore deep-tech fund, already deploying… | 5 min |
| 27 Sept | AI | Mumbai-Rooted Brahma AI Hits $2 Billion Valuation on $150 Million Round Brahma AI, an enterprise AI company built from technology assembled across DNEG, Metaphysic and Prime Focus, has raised $150 million at a $2 billion… | 6 min |
| 27 Sept | Defence | At DEFCON 2026, India's Military Leadership Makes AI Central to Doctrine At the News18 DEFCON 2026 summit in New Delhi, India's defence minister and military chiefs made clear that AI, autonomous platforms and… | 4 min |
| 27 Sept | AI | Lightspeed Sharpens India Bet With $250 Million AI-Focused Fund V Lightspeed Venture Partners is raising a $250 million fifth India fund focused almost exclusively on early-stage AI startups, betting that artificial… | 6 min |
| 27 Sept | Misc | Lavni Ventures Closes ₹200 Crore Fund II for Health and Climate Deep Tech Lavni Ventures has closed its second deep-tech fund at ₹200 crore, backing early-stage Indian founders building health and climate technologies… | 4 min |
| 26 Sept | Energy | Premier Energies Commissions 7 GW TOPCon Solar Cell Plant in Andhra Pradesh Premier Energies switched on a ₹3,293-crore, 7 GW TOPCon solar cell facility in Naidupeta, taking its total cell capacity to 10.6 GW as India's… | 4 min |
| 26 Sept | AI | 5C Network Launches Remote Nuclear Medicine Centre to Plug India's Radiologist Gap AI-native radiology platform 5C Network has opened a remote Centre of Excellence for Nuclear Medicine, aiming to connect India's roughly 800 nuclear… | 5 min |
| 26 Sept | Quantum | QNu Labs Unveils QShield 2.0, a Sovereign Platform to Run India's Quantum-Safe Migration On its tenth anniversary, QNu Labs launched QShield 2.0, a five-module platform built to power India's National Cryptographic Assessment and… | 5 min |
| 26 Sept | Misc | India Deep Tech Alliance Members Deployed ₹2,170 Crore Across 56 Startups in Year One IDTA members self-reported ₹2,170 crore invested across 56 deep-tech companies in the coalition's first year, split almost evenly across deep tech… | 4 min |
| 26 Sept | Defence | Hughes Precision Raises ₹250 Crore to Nearly Triple Ammunition Output Goa-based ammunition maker Hughes Precision closed a ₹250-crore-plus round to scale small-calibre capacity to 220 million rounds a year and launch a… | 3 min |
| 26 Sept | Defence | DRDO Moves 30kW Anti-Drone Laser Toward Production After Operation Sindoor Lessons DRDO says its 30kW anti-drone laser is proven and will seek an industry partner within six months to mass-produce it, targeting the cheap-drone… | 5 min |
| 25 Sept | Quantum | RRI's Optical Experiment Measures a Quantum Weight Above One A peer-reviewed optical study connects quantum histories to a laboratory measurement. Its result does not mean that an ordinary probability exceeded… | 3 min |
| 25 Sept | Materials | Balrampur’s PLA Pilot Targets the Gap Between Biopolymer Research and Factory Production A planned 100-tonne-a-year R&D facility in Uttar Pradesh will develop specialised PLA grades and co-polymers, generate process data and support… | 3 min |
| 25 Sept | Quantum | DRDO and Zero mK Target an Indian 20-Millikelvin Refrigerator A new development agreement targets the cryogenic infrastructure needed by several quantum platforms. The milestone is a project launch, not a… | 3 min |
| 23 Sept | Semis | Applied Materials Sets a 2035 Goal for Expanding Its India Supply Chain The SEMICON announcement combines a $5 billion decade-long investment plan with a target to increase India-based supply-chain capacity tenfold. These… | 2 min |
| 20 Sept | Semis | Six ChipIN Centres and an Open PDK Expand India’s Chip-Design Access SEMICON announcements connect regional design support with a 0.8-micron process design kit. The practical test is whether learners and startups can… | 3 min |
| 20 Sept | Defence | VIMARSH 2026 Opens DRDO Testing and Software-Sharing Routes for Industry DRDO announced support for smaller firms and controlled source-code access for licensees. Nine technology-transfer agreements were handed to 13… | 3 min |
| 20 Sept | Nano | IIT Gandhinagar Maps Carbon Structures That Could Help Hydrogen Catalysis Simulations identify promising hydrogen-binding sites in disordered carbon. The result offers a direction for catalyst design, with laboratory… | 3 min |
| 19 Sept | Quantum | Raman Research Institute Shows a Precisely-Timed 'Flip' Can Control Quantum Entanglement Loss Physicists at Bengaluru's Raman Research Institute, working with the University of Calgary and Louisiana State University, have shown that a single… | 5 min |
| 19 Sept | AI | IIT Madras Plans an AI Venture Studio, With Applications Due to Open in October The proposed programme combines research access, compute support and venture development. It remains forthcoming; the first cohort is not reported as… | 2 min |
| 19 Sept | Defence | West Bengal Signals Support for a Proposed Defence Project at Junput September reporting describes state support for a proposed project. The reviewed evidence does not establish every clearance, land-transfer step or… | 1 min |
| 19 Sept | Energy | Rosatom Offers Reactor Options to India at INNOPROM September reporting describes a portfolio offer covering large and small reactors. It does not establish a new construction contract, a selected SMR… | 2 min |
| 19 Sept | Energy | IPR Reports 82.6 GHz Gyrotron Commissioning and Plasma Heating on SST-1 The system reached 400 kW for 500 milliseconds on a dummy load before plasma experiments at lower power and shorter durations. This is a… | 2 min |
| 19 Sept | Semis | Tata Electronics’ SEMICON Partnerships Target Materials, Packaging and Fab Readiness The agreements cover specific links in the semiconductor supply chain. Announced signings and future plans should not be counted as completed… | 2 min |
| 18 Sept | Semis | CDIL Confirms Commercial Chip Production, Partners With Japan's Shindengen on Packaging Continental Device India Ltd (CDIL), one of India's oldest chipmakers, confirmed commercial-scale semiconductor production and a new packaging… | 4 min |
| 18 Sept | Space | U-Space and AXISCADES Sign Cooperation Deal to Explore India's Microsatellite Market French space company U-Space and Bengaluru's AXISCADES have signed a commercial cooperation agreement to jointly pursue India's microsatellite… | 4 min |
| 18 Sept | Defence | Army Design Bureau Reviews Garuda Aerospace's Indigenous Defence Drone Facility Major General Gopal Kapoor of the Indian Army's Design Bureau visited Garuda Aerospace's Chennai manufacturing facility to assess its indigenous… | 5 min |
| 18 Sept | Semis | SEMICON India 2026 Opens in Delhi With Modi Inaugurating, 600+ Exhibitors SEMICON India 2026, the fifth edition of the country's flagship chip-industry event, opens in New Delhi on September 17 with Prime Minister Modi… | 4 min |
| 18 Sept | Robotics | Mirai and GreenValley Plan Local LiDAR Assembly and Calibration in India An initial agreement covers assembly, support and geospatial software applications. Investment, licensing and production scope still need definitive… | 2 min |
| 18 Sept | Defence | DheyaTech’s ₹43 Crore Round Targets Engine Testing and Production Readiness The Bengaluru company is expanding small gas-turbine manufacturing and testing. Its stated Q4 flight-trial target and certification work remain… | 3 min |
| 18 Sept | AI | Flam’s $40 Million Round Backs Interactive Video and Spatial Advertising Tools The company is expanding browser-accessible advertising products and generative tools. Its customer and performance figures remain company or… | 2 min |
| 17 Sept | Energy | Mercom Reports 8.2 GWh of Indian Battery-Storage Additions in First-Half 2026 The reported increase comes off a small base, while second-quarter additions fell from the first quarter. Installed energy capacity should be kept… | 2 min |
| 17 Sept | AI | Activate Reports $105 Million Across Early-Stage and Growth Investment Vehicles The reported total includes an $85 million flagship fund and $20 million in growth vehicles. It should not be described as one $105 million fund. | 2 min |
| 17 Sept | Semis | VerifAIX Targets Assertion-Failure Debugging in Chip Verification A new technical account describes an AI-assisted loop around formal tools, ending with engineer review. Its $5 million seed round supports… | 2 min |
| 16 Sept | AI | SquadStack Describes Outcome-Linked Pricing Alongside Its Published Per-Minute Offer A September announcement describes a base fee plus success-linked charges. The live pricing page still advertises per-minute billing, so the scope of… | 2 min |
| 16 Sept | Materials | izmo Microsystems Details Photonics Packaging Modules for SEMICON India The company identifies QRNG, QKD and modulator packaging work, while placing its next optical-transceiver launch in 2027. Production-readiness claims… | 2 min |
| 16 Sept | Biotech | W Health Ventures Closes ₹700 Crore Fund for Healthcare Company Creation The firm plans to develop eight to ten companies over four years. Its model and portfolio reach are business claims, not evidence of clinical… | 2 min |
| 16 Sept | Misc | FITT Forward 2026 Connects Research Teams With Industry and Venture Support The IIT Delhi summit ran on 10–11 September and included a SportsTech accelerator agreement. Reported incubation totals refer to the earlier 2025… | 2 min |
| 16 Sept | Energy | Premier Energies and RCT Plan a 12 GWh Battery-Storage Manufacturing Venture A binding term sheet outlines a proposed Telangana facility in two phases. The first phase targets 6 GWh of annual manufacturing capacity; the plant… | 2 min |
| 15 Sept | Misc | Four Indian Ventures Join Google DeepMind’s AI for the Planet Cohort Terrastack, Varaha Climate, Farmers for Forests and Climitra Carbon join the APAC programme, announced on 7 September. | 2 min |
| 15 Sept | Robotics | BonV Aero Joins GENIUS NY’s Tenth Cohort for Heavy-Lift Drone Development The Odisha company is one of five finalists in the yearlong accelerator, with investment awards to be decided at the May 2027 pitch finals. | 2 min |
| 15 Sept | Defence | IAF Opens Dronathon Trials for Unmanned Systems at Pokhran The 14–16 September programme brings Indian drone and counter-drone systems into desert trials and includes a Vayu UTtaM demonstration. | 2 min |
| 15 Sept | Materials | India Photonics Association Launches to Connect Research and Industry The new industry body aims to build collaboration across optical technologies, supply chains and policymaking. | 2 min |
| 15 Sept | Semis | India's Chip Startups Have Raised $1.4 Billion — Half of It Since Last Year, Tracxn Finds A Tracxn report released ahead of SEMICON India 2026 shows Indian semiconductor companies have drawn $1.4 billion in cumulative equity funding across… | 4 min |
| 15 Sept | Energy | IISc's Compact CO2 Engine Could Shrink Sub-Megawatt Power Generation Tenfold IISc researchers led by Dr Pramod Kumar have developed a compact tandem-cylinder reciprocating engine for CO2-based power generation that replaces… | 5 min |
| 14 Sept | Quantum | QClairvoyance and Samgnya Announce a Quantum Research Partnership The MoU covers computing, algorithms, quantum AI and post-quantum security, with research and validation ahead of deployment. | 2 min |
| 14 Sept | Space | RIDE! Targets Q3 2028 Launches for Two TakeMe2Space Satellites The launch-services agreement covers mission management for two spacecraft in the Hyderabad company’s planned orbital-computing constellation. It is… | 2 min |
| 14 Sept | AI | Avathon and IIT Roorkee Plan a Physical AI Research Lab The proposed Physical AI Lab will connect academic work on optimisation and autonomous systems with industrial problems. Its research agenda is… | 2 min |
| 14 Sept | Defence | DRDO Seeks Indigenous Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion for Satellites in Very Low Earth Orbit DRDO has issued a Request for Proposal for an indigenous air-breathing electric propulsion system that would let satellites operate indefinitely at… | 7 min |
| 13 Sept | Space | Agnikul Adds Stage-Testing and Pressure-Vessel Facilities The Chennai expansion addresses ground testing and manufacturing needed for future reusable vehicles. It does not establish that Agnikul has… | 2 min |
| 13 Sept | Space | ISRO Clarifies Its Research Role as Industry Takes on Manufacturing ISRO’s September 6 statement rules out privatisation and retains government control of critical infrastructure. Programme-level transition… | 2 min |
| 13 Sept | Misc | CSIR’s Kolkata RISE Conclave Connects Four Labs With Industry The September 6–7 programme linked minerals, medicine, materials and machinery. Its reported transfer initiatives need to be followed through to… | 2 min |
| 12 Sept | Misc | India Endorses Global 6G Coordination and Security Initiative DoT will coordinate India’s participation in the September 9 announcement. The pledge defines staged follow-up while preserving national positions in… | 2 min |
| 12 Sept | AI | HyperVerge Introduces AI Agents to Assist Business-Loan Underwriting Three agents assemble financial records, support video discussions and screen businesses. Company-reported pilot gains need to be judged alongside… | 2 min |
| 12 Sept | Quantum | RBI Urges Payment Operators to Prepare for Post-Quantum Security A September 11 speech urges coordinated preparation across payments. It announces no migration deadline and does not endorse a particular vendor or… | 2 min |
| 12 Sept | Space | Reliance Jio Targets a 2027 Test Launch for Its 1,600-Satellite LEO Network Reliance Jio has set September 2027 for a test flight of its planned 1,600-satellite low-Earth-orbit constellation, aiming to bring satellite… | 4 min |
| 12 Sept | Space | Safran Space and Dhruva Space Sign Deal for India's SBS-III Surveillance Constellation French aerospace group Safran Space will supply communication systems, navigation units, optical payloads and ground stations for India's planned… | 5 min |
| 11 Sept | Semis | Leanwatts Raises $2 Million to Develop and Manufacture EV Chargers The company says seed funding will support product development, manufacturing and validation. Its charger claims need product-level evidence, beyond… | 2 min |
| 11 Sept | Misc | Bharat Innovates Brings 37 Ventures to the BRICS Exposition The September 11–12 showcase gives a subset of the Nice cohort another route to partners. Attendance plans and funding commitments should not be… | 2 min |
| 11 Sept | Defence | DRDO Describes Sensor and AI Work for Border Surveillance A September 10 interview outlines development priorities and attributes first-generation counter-drone deployments to DRDO. It does not announce a… | 2 min |
| 10 Sept | AI | Mahindra Finance Reports More Than One Crore Voice-AI Calls Mahindra Finance says voice agents built by Mahindra AI on Sarvam’s platform have handled over one crore calls across 12 languages. The next test is… | 2 min |
| 10 Sept | Space | Inbound Aerospace and Space Angel Partner on Re-Entry Development Space Angel has named Inbound Aerospace among its new spacecraft re-entry partners. The agreement creates a development route, while the proposed… | 2 min |
| 10 Sept | Quantum | AllSecureX Raises Pre-Seed Funding for Post-Quantum Migration Tools AllSecureX has reported backing from Finvolve and India Accelerator for its cyber-defence platform. Planned pilots will need to show whether its… | 2 min |
| 9 Sept | Quantum | QNu Labs Raises ₹200 Crore for Quantum-Safe Security Expansion QNu Labs has announced a ₹200 crore Series A1 round. Its plans span R&D, quantum sensing and network infrastructure, where deployment conditions and… | 2 min |
| 9 Sept | Space | GalaxEye’s OptoSAR Patent Describes How Radar and Optical Images Align US patent 12,516,926 B2 documents GalaxEye’s approach to matching data from multiple sensors. Its January grant predates September’s coverage; the… | 3 min |
| 8 Sept | AI | Navana.ai Raises ₹40 Crore to Expand Voice AI for Financial Services The Series A will support Indian-language speech models and enterprise deployments. Reported usage and accuracy claims remain company figures. | 2 min |
| 8 Sept | Defence | DAC Gives In-Principle Approval to ₹1.10 Lakh Crore of Defence Proposals The September 7 clearance includes marine-gas-turbine development and radar procurement. It signals intended work, rather than signed orders or… | 2 min |
| 8 Sept | Space | Pixxel Raises $100 Million to Expand Satellite Sensing and Manufacturing The Series C backs Honeybee satellites, Aurora software and manufacturing capacity, with the first Honeybee launch targeted for 2027. | 2 min |
| 8 Sept | AI | NPCI's Unified Agent Protocol Puts AI Agents on UPI's Agenda at Global Fintech Fest As Global Fintech Fest 2026 opens in Mumbai, NPCI's Unified Agent Protocol — a framework to let AI agents transact on UPI within user-set limits —… | 6 min |
| 8 Sept | Defence | DRDO's SSPL Delivers Indigenous Laser Diode Stacks to Arm QRSAM and NGARM Fuzes DRDO's Solid State Physics Laboratory has developed indigenous 500-watt pulsed laser diode stacks for the proximity fuzes on the QRSAM and NGARM… | 4 min |
| 8 Sept | Defence | DRDO Floats SHIELD, an Indigenous Rig to Find Out Exactly How Microwaves Kill Drone Electronics DRDO has floated an RFP for SHIELD, a GaN-based high-power microwave evaluation rig meant to measure how much energy it takes to disable drone… | 4 min |
| 7 Sept | Defence | Apollyon Reports a 498 km/h Test Speed for Its Ahuti Mk II Interceptor The Hyderabad startup says the multirotor result has India Book of Records recognition. Top speed remains distinct from demonstrated interception… | 2 min |
| 7 Sept | Space | ISRO Tests Semi-Cryogenic Power Head at Full Level for Five Seconds ISRO’s September 5 test ran the power head at the stated 200-tonne level for five seconds. The hardware excludes the thrust chamber, making this a… | 2 min |
| 7 Sept | Misc | Krafton Plans Another $250 Million for Indian Gaming, AI and Deep Tech The commitment spans three to four years and is separate from Krafton’s participation in an India-focused growth fund. | 2 min |
| 7 Sept | Energy | India Proposes Mandatory Battery Storage and Grid-Forming Inverters for New Solar and Wind Projects The Central Electricity Authority has proposed that all new solar and wind projects commissioned after July 2027 carry co-located battery storage and… | 5 min |
| 6 Sept | Defence | India–Belgium Defence Agreements Include Local Assembly of Thales Rockets The September 3 package links industrial cooperation with ammunition and rocket production. Thales and Kalyani target their first locally assembled… | 2 min |
| 6 Sept | Biotech | BIO-NIVESH Links Biotechnology Startups With Investors The September 3 launch brought 20 ventures together with around 50 investors. It is an engagement platform, with future partnerships and technology… | 2 min |
| 6 Sept | Biotech | Ultrahuman Raises $70 Million for Wearables and Health-Intelligence Research The September 3 financing backs Ultrahuman’s effort to connect wearable, blood and environmental data. The technical question is whether those… | 2 min |
| 5 Sept | AI | AMD Partners With Delhi University to Train 10,000 Students in AI and ROCm AMD has signed an MoU with the University of Delhi to train about 10,000 students on its open-source ROCm AI platform over the next year, extending… | 4 min |
| 5 Sept | Defence | DRDO Invites Bids for an Indigenous Air-to-Air Refuelling Pod, Targeting a Gap Russian Tankers Can't Fill DRDO has opened bidding under its Technology Development Fund for an indigenous, modular Air-to-Air Refuelling Pod, aiming to reduce the Air Force's… | 4 min |
| 5 Sept | Misc | Minimac Systems Raises ₹30 Crore to Turn Industrial Oil Into a Circular Resource, Not Waste Minimac Systems has raised ₹30 crore in a pre-Series A round led by Zerodha's Rainmatter to scale mobile, miniaturised units that restore industrial… | 4 min |
| 5 Sept | Semis | Makr Microsystems Raises ₹10.2 Crore to Help Chipmakers See What's Buried Beneath the Surface Bengaluru's Makr Microsystems has raised ₹10.2 crore in a seed round led by Bluehill.VC to build nanoscale metrology tools that let chipmakers find… | 4 min |
| 5 Sept | Defence | Bharat Forge's Kalyani Strategic Systems Signs With Thales to Build 70mm Rockets in India KSSL, the defence arm of Bharat Forge, has signed a strategic alliance with Belgium's Thales to locally produce combat-proven 70mm rocket systems… | 5 min |
| 5 Sept | Space | ISRO's GSLV-F17 Places EOS-05 Into Orbit, Its Heaviest-Ever Payload on a GSLV ISRO's GSLV-F17 placed the 2,367-kg EOS-05 satellite into a higher-than-planned geosynchronous transfer orbit on September 4, redeeming the GSLV… | 6 min |
| 4 Sept | Quantum | Arvind Krishna Confirms Amaravati Will Host One of India's First Physical IBM Quantum Computers IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna has confirmed that Amaravati will host one of the first two physical IBM quantum computers deployed on Indian… | 5 min |
| 4 Sept | Defence | India and UK Move to Seal an Electric-Propulsion Pact for the Navy's Next Landing Ships India and the UK are close to signing twin agreements — one for electric propulsion on four new Navy landing ships, another for Martlet missile… | 4 min |
| 4 Sept | AI | Adobe Acquires Rilo, an IIT Bombay-Founded AI Agents Startup, Less Than a Year After Launch Adobe has acquired Bengaluru-founded AI agents startup Rilo, less than a year after two IIT Bombay alumni launched it, in a deal that folds Rilo's… | 4 min |
| 3 Sept | Robotics | Alteon Raises $2.5 Million to Build Aircraft That Ride Ocean Wind Like an Albatross Bengaluru's Alteon has raised a $2.5 million pre-seed round to build autonomous aircraft that use dynamic soaring — the wind-shear trick albatrosses… | 5 min |
| 3 Sept | Defence | Aeron Systems Raises ₹45 Crore to Scale India's Navigation and Weather-Sensing Hardware Pune's Aeron Systems has raised ₹45 crore in a Pre-Series B round to expand manufacturing of the inertial navigation systems and weather sensors it… | 3 min |
| 3 Sept | Defence | Avantel Wins ₹118 Crore DRDO Order to Build a Satellite-Comms Hub for the Navy Hyderabad's Avantel has secured a ₹117.88 crore DRDO contract to build a ground segment hub for secure voice and data satellite communication, due… | 3 min |
| 2 Sept | Misc | The/Nudge Foundation Launches TILT, a ₹250 Crore Fund for India's 'Next Billion' Tech Startups The/Nudge Foundation has launched TILT, a ₹250 crore impact-investment platform backing seed-to-Series A science and technology startups working on… | 3 min |
| 2 Sept | Semis | Zenergize Raises $4 Million to Scale India's First Indigenous Silicon-Carbide Power Electronics Gurugram's Zenergize Technologies has raised a Pre-Series A round to scale its silicon-carbide EV chargers and solar inverters against an order book… | 5 min |
| 2 Sept | Materials | JNCASR and IISc Scientists Shatter a Century-Old Limit on Turning Heat Into Electricity A JNCASR-led team with IISc and the University of Sydney has broken the textbook Boltzmann limit on thermoelectric voltage, using a magnesium-doped… | 4 min |
| 2 Sept | Defence | India Rewrites Its Defence Export Rulebook, Widening OGEL Access to Nearly Every Country The Ministry of Defence has consolidated India's Open General Export Licence framework into a single SOP, extending validity to three years and… | 4 min |
| 1 Sept | Energy | Magna Doubles Down on Yuma Energy With $35 Million to Scale India's Battery-Swapping Network Automotive supplier Magna International has put a further $35 million into Yuma Energy, the battery-swapping venture it co-founded with Yulu, to… | 4 min |
| 1 Sept | Space | Kepler Aerospace Raises $8 Million to Build Six Autonomous ISR Satellites That Talk to Each Other in Orbit Bengaluru's Kepler Aerospace has closed its first-ever external funding round to launch six swarming ISR satellites under two Ministry of Defence… | 6 min |
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| 31 Aug | Materials | GX Group to Build India's First Advanced Photonics Facility, Betting on the Chips That Run Fibre and AI Networks Netherlands-headquartered GX Group is building what it calls India's first advanced photonics facility, a Rs 500 crore bet on the optical… | 5 min |
| 31 Aug | Misc | G Kishan Reddy Launches Critical Minerals Innovation Hackathon 2026 to Chase India's Import Gap G Kishan Reddy has launched the Critical Minerals Innovation Hackathon 2026, a JNARDDC-run call for startups, researchers and students to build… | 4 min |
| 31 Aug | Misc | Bengaluru's Industrial47 Closes ₹85 Crore to Back India's Space, Defence and Maritime Founders at Pre-Seed Bengaluru pre-seed fund Industrial47, founded by ex-Antler VC director and Army Reserves officer Rahul Seth, has closed Rs 85 crore for its debut… | 4 min |
| 31 Aug | Energy | India Weighs a ₹13,000 Crore Push to Build the Battery Materials It Still Imports From China A proposed incentive scheme would target anode, cathode, electrolyte, separator and copper-foil manufacturing — the upstream layer India's battery… | 4 min |
| 31 Aug | Defence | India Signs for the Javelin, Ending a Fifteen-Year Wait for America's Tank-Killer The Indian Army has signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance for FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missiles from the United States, closing out more than a… | 5 min |
| 30 Aug | Quantum | Andhra Pradesh Clears an 8.5-Acre Quantum and AI University Campus for Amaravati Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has approved a ₹730.7 crore NIELIT campus dedicated to quantum computing, AI, chip design and HPC, with classes… | 4 min |
| 30 Aug | Misc | Twelve Deep-Tech Startups Reach the Final Round of the Avaana-Startup India Grand Challenge DPIIT and Avaana Capital's third Grand Challenge for Deep Tech Innovation pushed 12 finalists from space, biotech and energy through to pitch for… | 4 min |
| 30 Aug | Defence | Sigma Advanced Systems Lands a £125 Million Rolls-Royce Deal Through Its UK Aero-Engine Buy A Bromford Precision Solutions acquisition has turned Sigma Advanced Systems into a dual-source Rolls-Royce supplier for aero-engine rings and… | 4 min |
| 30 Aug | Energy | Adani, Tata Power and NTPC Split Over Whether India's Private Nuclear Push Should Go Local or Foreign With draft rules for private nuclear power due for industry feedback by September 4, India's conglomerates are divided between backing indigenous… | 5 min |
| 30 Aug | AI | Gnani.ai Launches 'Artha', a Sovereign AI Stack Built on an 11-Language Model Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan unveiled Gnani Artha, pairing the 30-billion-parameter Evon 3.3 language model with the Plexus agentic platform for… | 4 min |
| 29 Aug | Biotech | Remidio Wins a US Patent for a Wearable That Folds Five Eye Exams Into One Bengaluru's Remidio has been granted a US patent for a headset that captures five separate eye exams without dilation, a step toward pulling… | 5 min |
| 29 Aug | Neuro | Deepinder Goyal's Temple Acquires London's Longevous to Ground Its Wearable in Clinical Science Temple has acquired London's Longevous, bringing two longevity-medicine physicians in-house as chief medical officer and head of science just as… | 5 min |
| 29 Aug | Biotech | India Reopens Its ₹5,000 Crore PRIP Scheme, Inviting a Second Wave of Pharma and MedTech Innovators The Department of Pharmaceuticals has opened a second call for applications under its ₹5,000 crore PRIP scheme, offering up to ₹100 crore per project… | 4 min |
| 29 Aug | Biotech | Three South Indian MedTech Startups Win a Week in Israel Through HealthSprint 2026 BioCipher Labs, Prodancy and Mykare.ai were picked from 175 applicants to represent Indian medtech in an Indo-Israel innovation sprint run by GINSERV… | 5 min |
| 29 Aug | Defence | L&T Delivers Samarthak, the Indian Navy's First Indigenous Multi-Purpose Vessel L&T has handed over Samarthak, India's first indigenously designed and built Multi-Purpose Vessel, giving the Navy a floating test bed for new… | 4 min |
| 28 Aug | AI | Bengaluru's Runable Raises $21 Million to Turn AI Agents From Builders Into Growth Marketers Bengaluru's Runable has raised $21 million to scale an AI agent that builds small businesses' digital presence and then runs the marketing that keeps… | 3 min |
| 28 Aug | Robotics | Hyderabad's WATER Raises $2.5 Million to Build a Robotic Bed That Reshapes Itself Around You Hyderabad's WATER has raised $2.5 million to scale CAMA, a robotic bed with over 10,000 sensors that reshapes itself around a sleeper in real time. | 3 min |
| 28 Aug | Misc | Micromax Launches a ₹250 Crore Family Office to Bankroll India's Next Deep-Tech Wave Micromax Informatics has launched a ₹250 crore family office to back deep-tech startups in AI, semiconductors, defence, space and robotics, pairing… | 3 min |
| 28 Aug | Energy | Bengaluru's Pranos Fusion Completes PRAGYA, India's First Privately Built Tokamak Bengaluru's Pranos Fusion says it has completed construction of PRAGYA, India's first privately built tokamak, and is now commissioning toward a… | 4 min |
| 28 Aug | Quantum | C-DoT Unveils 14 Indigenous Quantum-Secure Products, Betting on QKD Ahead of 6G C-DoT marked its 43rd Foundation Day by unveiling 14 indigenous quantum-secure products spanning Quantum Key Distribution and Post-Quantum… | 4 min |
| 27 Aug | AI | Ringg AI Raises $10 Million Series A Extension to Push Voice Agents Beyond the Phone Call Bengaluru's Ringg AI has raised a $10 million Series A extension led by Peak XV Partners to expand its enterprise voice-AI agents, which already… | 4 min |
| 27 Aug | Defence | HAL and Safran Sign Final Contract to Build the 'Aravalli' Engine, India's First Indigenous High-Power Helicopter Powerplant HAL and Safran Helicopter Engines have signed the final contract to co-develop 'Aravalli,' a 3,500–4,000 shp turboshaft engine for India's Indian… | 4 min |
| 27 Aug | Space | IIT Bombay's InspeCity Raises ₹100 Crore to Scale In-Space Satellite Servicing IIT Bombay-incubated satellite-servicing startup InspeCity has raised ₹100 crore to fund flight qualification and four in-orbit missions over the… | 4 min |
| 27 Aug | Space | ISRO to Exit Rocket Manufacturing, Hand PSLV, LVM3 and SSLV Production to Private Industry IN-SPACe Chairman Pawan Goenka has confirmed that ISRO will exit rocket manufacturing entirely, handing PSLV, LVM3 and SSLV production to private… | 5 min |
| 27 Aug | Defence | DRDO Tests Its Military Combat Parachute System at 22,000 Feet in Ladakh DRDO's ADRDE tested its indigenous Military Combat Parachute System at Nyoma, Ladakh, with jumpers exiting at 22,000 feet in temperatures as low as… | 3 min |
| 26 Aug | AI | Tross Raises Pre-Seed Funding to Build the API Layer Healthcare AI Agents Run On Tross, founded by Padam Kataria and Meet Shah, has raised pre-seed funding led by All In Capital to build the EHR and payer-integration… | 4 min |
| 26 Aug | Nano | MeitY Launches the Graphene-Aurora Program, a Rs 94.85 Crore Push to Build India's Graphene Industry MeitY has launched the Graphene-Aurora Program in Kochi, a Rs 94.85 crore initiative with the Government of Kerala and industry partner Carborundum… | 6 min |
| 26 Aug | Robotics | Bengaluru's Airbound Raises $37 Million to Fly Rocket-Like Drones Past Trucking's Cost Floor Bengaluru-based Airbound has raised a $37 million Series A led by Greenoaks and signed a deal with Andhra Pradesh to run up to 10,000 autonomous… | 4 min |
| 26 Aug | Materials | CarbonStrong Raises ₹12.5 Crore to Scale a Fly-Ash Cement Substitute for India's Concrete Industry CarbonStrong has raised ₹12.5 crore to scale a fly-ash-and-slag binder that can replace up to half the cement in concrete, aiming to cut emissions… | 4 min |
| 26 Aug | Energy | Rechargion Energy Builds India's First Validated Sodium-Ion Battery Cells From Homegrown Materials Pune's Rechargion Energy has become the first Indian company to get its sodium-ion battery cells validated by ARAI, building a pilot fabrication line… | 6 min |
| 25 Aug | Defence | India Nears ₹70,000 Crore Deal With Germany To Build Six Project-75I Submarines India is nearing Cabinet Committee on Security approval for a roughly ₹70,000 crore deal with Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems to build six… | 4 min |
| 25 Aug | Defence | Territorial Army Launches 'Terrier Cyber Quest 2026', A National AI and Cybersecurity Hackathon The Territorial Army launched Terrier Cyber Quest 2026 on August 21, a national hackathon with CyberPeace built around AI-driven cyber defence and… | 3 min |
| 25 Aug | AI | Bengaluru's Zenalyst Raises ₹3 Crore Pre-Seed To Scale Its Agentic AI Platform For Enterprise Workflows Bengaluru enterprise AI startup Zenalyst has raised a ₹3 crore pre-seed round to grow ZenForce, its platform of specialised AI agents for finance… | 3 min |
| 25 Aug | Defence | Indian Army Raises 'Baaz', Its First Dedicated Drone Battalion, On The Pakistan Front The Indian Army has raised Baaz, its first dedicated drone battalion, under 11 Corps on the Pakistan front — a centralised ISR unit built around… | 4 min |
| 25 Aug | Energy | IIT Bombay Engineers a Cobalt-Nickel Catalyst That Could Cut Green Hydrogen's Platinum Problem IIT Bombay researchers have engineered a bifunctional cobalt-nickel phosphate catalyst on exfoliated graphite that splits water at 1.70 V, offering a… | 6 min |
| 24 Aug | Space | Gaganyaan Clears Key Human-Rating Milestones: HLVM3, Crew Escape and Life-Support Systems Qualified ISRO has developed, tested and qualified the core systems needed to human-rate Gaganyaan — from the HLVM3 launch vehicle's propulsion stages to the… | 4 min |
| 24 Aug | Semis | Modi to Open Semicon India 2026 as 500+ Exhibitors Descend on Delhi's Chip Ecosystem Showcase PM Modi will inaugurate Semicon India 2026 on September 17 at Delhi's Yashobhoomi, with 500+ exhibitors and global majors like ASML and Applied… | 4 min |
| 24 Aug | Defence | DRDO Hands Bharat Dynamics the Technology for 'Mohini', a Decoy Built to Save Indian Submarines DRDO's NSTL has transferred the Submarine Fired Decoy 'Mohini' to Bharat Dynamics Limited for series production, giving the Navy an indigenous… | 6 min |
| 24 Aug | AI | Rezolv Raises $12.5 Million to Put AI Voice Agents on India's Lending Collections Calls Mumbai fintech Rezolv, founded by former Kissht co-founders, raised a $12.5 million Series A led by Norwest to scale AI voice agents that banks and… | 4 min |
| 24 Aug | Misc | A 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Rock in Jharkhand May Hold Earth's Oldest Directly Dated Sign of Life A carbon-rich chert from Jharkhand's Singhbhum Craton, directly dated to 3.497 billion years, carries carbon-isotope and structural evidence of an… | 6 min |
| 23 Aug | Neuro | Deepinder Goyal Unveils Redesigned Temple Brain-Monitoring Wearable, Now Half the Size Zomato and Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal has unveiled a radically shrunk redesign of Temple, his brain-monitoring wearable, ahead of a limited… | 4 min |
| 23 Aug | Space | Modi Meets 20 Space Startup Founders, Pushes India as a Global Space Technology Hub Prime Minister Narendra Modi met founders and CEOs of 20 Indian space startups at Seva Teerth on August 21, urging them to widen space tech's… | 4 min |
| 23 Aug | AI | Dubai Chambers and Nasscom Sign MoU to Open a Fast Lane for India's Agentic AI and Deep-Tech Firms Dubai Chambers signed MoUs with Nasscom and FKCCI in Bengaluru on August 20 to build a formal channel for Indian agentic-AI and deep-tech firms to… | 4 min |
| 23 Aug | Space | Red Balloon Aerospace Is Building the Towers in India's Sky, One Stratospheric Balloon at a Time Vijayawada-based Red Balloon Aerospace flew India's first indigenous super-pressure stratospheric balloon in May and is now racing to build HELIX, a… | 5 min |
| 22 Aug | Defence | DRDO Opens Strategic Missile and Bomb Systems Development to Private Industry DRDO has floated an expression of interest inviting private Indian firms to co-develop and eventually produce strategic missile and bomb systems, a… | 5 min |
| 22 Aug | Misc | T-Hub and Japan's OKI Electric Launch Program to Take Indian Deep-Tech Startups to Japan Hyderabad-based incubator T-Hub has partnered with Japanese manufacturer OKI Electric to help eight shortlisted Indian deep-tech startups pilot… | 4 min |
| 22 Aug | Semis | Korean Foundry DB HiTek Makes First-Ever Bengaluru Appearance at electronica India 2026 South Korean specialty foundry DB HiTek will exhibit in India for the first time at electronica India 2026 this September, targeting the country's… | 4 min |
| 21 Aug | Defence | AlgoFET Raises Rs 15 Crore to Build the Docks, Chargers and Fleet Software India's Drones Need to Stay in the Air IIT Guwahati alumnus Ankit Mishra's Bengaluru startup AlgoFET closed a Rs 15 crore pre-Series A round led by Piper Serica on 19 August 2026 to scale… | 5 min |
| 21 Aug | Misc | Nikhil Kamath and Sreeram Vanga Put Rs 250 Crore Into CtrlS as India's AI Compute Build-Out Goes Into Overdrive Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath is investing Rs 200 crore and entrepreneur Sreeram Reddy Vanga another Rs 50 crore into hyperscale data centre… | 5 min |
| 21 Aug | Space | India's Private Space Sector Puts a Number on Itself: Two Commercial Launches This Year, Six-Plus Next Union Minister Jitendra Singh told Parliament on 13 August 2026 that Indian private companies plan two commercial launches in FY 2026-27 and more… | 6 min |
| 20 Aug | Energy | BARC and NPCIL Release the BSMR-300 Blueprint, Turning India's Flagship Indigenous SMR Into a Real Project BARC and NPCIL released the Detailed Project Report for the 300 MWe Bharat Small Modular Reactor on 14 August 2026 — the first fully specified… | 5 min |
| 19 Aug | Defence | India Signs Rs 1,943 Crore Lease for Two More MQ-9B Sea Guardians to Keep the Navy's Ocean Watch Alive The Rs 1,943-crore, 30-month lease of two MQ-9B Sea Guardian remotely piloted aircraft is a bridging deal to keep the Indian Navy's long-range… | 6 min |
| 19 Aug | Space | ISRO Readies September Return to Flight With GISAT-1A, Ending a Near Seven-Month Launch Pause ISRO will return to flight in early September 2026 with GISAT-1A (EOS-05), an Earth-observation satellite launching on a GSLV, ending a near… | 5 min |
| 18 Aug | Misc | India's deep tech has pulled in $11.4 billion since 2015 — and 85% of it in just six years, says IVCA A new IVCA report released on 17 August 2026 says India's deep-tech sector has drawn nearly $11.4 billion in PE/VC funding since 2015, with over 85%… | 4 min |
| 18 Aug | AI | Razorpay Builds Vulcan, an India-Made AI Foundation Model for Payments Razorpay has unveiled Vulcan, which it calls India's first transformer-based AI foundation model built for payments — trained on nearly 3 trillion… | 4 min |
| 18 Aug | AI | How Bhashini put the Red Fort speech into 22 languages in real time On the 80th Independence Day, Prime Minister Modi's Red Fort address was translated live into all 22 scheduled Indian languages using Bhashini — the… | 4 min |
| 18 Aug | Robotics | India's Startups Make Their Move on Physical AI Robots A cluster of Indian startups — including Ati Robotics, Addverb and Novus High-Tech Robotic — is moving into physical AI robots, backed by rising… | 5 min |
| 18 Aug | Space | ISRO experts map the AI, quantum and inter-satellite future of India's spacecraft At the National Space Technology Conclave 2026, held 17–18 August at Chandigarh University, ISRO scientists laid out the technologies they expect to… | 5 min |
| 18 Aug | AI | IISc's SraVaani brings open-source speech AI to 65 Indian languages IISc has released SraVaani, an open-source speech-recognition model spanning 65 Indian languages and dialects — including regional tongues such as… | 5 min |
| 18 Aug | Misc | Geospatial Startup NeoGeo Raises $20 Million to Take India's Mapping Stack Global Gurugram-based geospatial technology firm NeoGeo has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Neev II Fund and Aavishkaar Capital, aiming to… | 4 min |
| 17 Aug | Quantum | QpiAI opens a quantum chip foundry in Bengaluru, with a line of sight to 10,000 qubits QpiAI has opened a Bengaluru quantum chip foundry able to fabricate superconducting processors of up to 128 qubits — handling lithography, etching… | 5 min |
| 17 Aug | Semis | Chennai startup Aheesa's 'Vihaan' broadband chip nails first-pass silicon on an Indian processor core MeitY says Chennai fabless startup Aheesa Digital Innovations achieved first-pass silicon success on 15 August 2026 with 'Vihaan', a DLI-backed… | 4 min |
| 17 Aug | Space | GalaxEye Acquires StarOps to Deepen Indigenous Satellite Engineering GalaxEye has acquired Bengaluru spacecraft-engineering firm StarOps, bringing qualified satellite bus platforms and a TeamIndus-rooted engineering… | 3 min |
| 17 Aug | Defence | HoverIt's Divyastra Mk3 flies: India's first fully indigenous jet-powered loitering munition takes off Lucknow-based startup Kawa UAV (HoverIt) says its Divyastra Mk3 — powered by an indigenous DG Propulsion jet engine — completed a successful maiden… | 5 min |
| 16 Aug | Misc | Modi's Red Fort Blueprint Puts AI Skilling, Chips and Quantum at the Heart of Viksit Bharat In his 2026 Independence Day address from the Red Fort, PM Modi placed AI, semiconductors, quantum and space at the centre of India's Viksit Bharat… | 5 min |
| 16 Aug | AI | L&T Lands Mega Order to Build India's Largest NVIDIA B300 AI Factory for Together AI L&T has secured a "mega" order worth an estimated ₹10,000–15,000 crore to build India's largest single-cluster AI facility — a 10,000-GPU NVIDIA B300… | 4 min |
| 16 Aug | Quantum | Tamil Nadu Signs Four Quantum-Computing MoUs at Its First Vetri Investment Conclave At its inaugural Vetri Investment Conclave, Tamil Nadu signed four MoUs with quantum-computing ventures — Quantum Integrated Machines, Quntrolsphere… | 3 min |
| 16 Aug | Space | ISRO Chief Sets a 300-Satellite Target and a 2035 Space Station Deadline ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan says India will launch at least 300 satellites over the next five to six years — a task set by the Prime Minister — while… | 4 min |
| 16 Aug | Defence | Army Signs Rs 1,577 Crore Deal With Tata and NIBE for 840 Long-Range Attack Drones India's Ministry of Defence has signed Rs 1,577 crore contracts with Tata Advanced Systems and NIBE for 840 long-range attack drones —… | 4 min |
| 15 Aug | Misc | Bluehill.VC closes maiden frontier-tech fund at ₹400 crore to back India’s hard-tech founders Chennai's Bluehill.VC has closed its maiden frontier-tech fund at ₹400 crore, backed by SIDBI and the Kerala and Uttar Pradesh governments, to write… | 3 min |
| 15 Aug | Misc | T-Hub launches ‘Blueprint’, a 12-month fellowship to scale India’s deep-tech founders T-Hub has launched Blueprint, a 12-month fellowship in which the Hyderabad incubator acts as a "generalist CXO" to help deep-tech founders scale —… | 3 min |
| 15 Aug | Space | Skyroot signs three-launch deal with HEX20, its first big commercial contract after Vikram-1’s orbital debut Weeks after Vikram-1 became India's first privately built rocket to reach orbit, Skyroot Aerospace has signed a three-launch agreement with… | 4 min |
| 15 Aug | Space | Pixxel-led ‘Allied Orbits’ consortium wins IN-SPACe deal to build India’s national Earth-observation constellation A Pixxel-led consortium of four Indian space firms — Allied Orbits — has won an IN-SPACe public-private partnership to build, own and operate India's… | 4 min |
| 14 Aug | Defence | KshatraLabs Bags Pre-Seed to Build 'HAWK', an Autonomous Drone That Hunts Other Drones Bengaluru defence-robotics startup KshatraLabs has raised undisclosed pre-seed funding from Finvolve and India Accelerator to advance HAWK, an… | 3 min |
| 14 Aug | Biotech | Ayati Devices Raises ₹15 Crore to Scale Its Made-in-India Diabetic-Foot Screening Tech Bengaluru medtech Ayati Devices has raised ₹15 crore (~$1.5M) in its first institutional round, a Pre-Series A led by Inflexor Ventures, to scale its… | 3 min |
| 14 Aug | Defence | Quarkitech Raises ₹2 Crore to Tame the Sensor-Data Deluge on India's Drones and Satellites Chennai deep-tech startup Quarkitech has raised ₹2 crore in pre-seed funding, plus a ₹1.5 crore National Quantum Mission grant, to build software… | 5 min |
| 13 Aug | Space | ISRO Static-Fires a Redesigned SSLV Booster in a Push to Make the Small Rocket Cheaper ISRO has ground-tested a redesigned first-stage solid booster for its Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, trimming the stage's mass and simplifying its… | 4 min |
| 13 Aug | Space | IN-SPACe Invites Private Firms to Run India's Second Spaceport at Kulasekarapattinam IN-SPACe has invited private Indian firms to operate India's second spaceport, the small-satellite launch complex being built at Kulasekarapattinam —… | 4 min |
| 13 Aug | Quantum | Tech Mahindra Joins IISER Pune's Quantum Hub to Build Middleware for a Home-Grown Ion-Trap Computer Tech Mahindra is teaming up with IISER Pune's I-HUB QTF to build the middleware for an indigenous 20-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer — the… | 4 min |
| 13 Aug | Defence | BEL Turns to IIT-Kanpur Startup EndureAir for 12 High-Altitude Kamikaze Drones Bharat Electronics Limited has agreed to source twelve high-altitude kamikaze drones from EndureAir Systems, an IIT-Kanpur-incubated startup — an… | 4 min |
| 12 Aug | Space | Astrobase unveils EVEREST, India's first privately built full-flow staged combustion rocket engine Bengaluru startup Astrobase has unveiled EVEREST, an 800 kN liquid-oxygen/methane engine it says is India's first privately built full-flow staged… | 4 min |
| 12 Aug | Materials | Discovered Materials raises $9M seed to put AI agents to work finding new materials for chips IIT Madras-founded Discovered Materials has raised $9 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed India Partners, with Y Combinator and Peak XV also… | 3 min |
| 12 Aug | Defence | Zoppler Systems raises Rs 6.5 crore to build indigenous RF sensing and edge-AI autonomy for defence Bengaluru defence-tech startup Zoppler Systems has raised Rs 6.5 crore led by Finvolve and India Accelerator to scale its indigenous RF sensing… | 3 min |
| 11 Aug | Misc | Aum Ventures Marks ₹225 Crore First Close of Its ₹750 Crore Deep-Tech Fund II — Led by Foreign LPs Aum Ventures has marked the first close of its ₹750 crore India Innovation Fund II at ₹225 crore, with more than 65% of the capital coming from… | 3 min |
| 11 Aug | Defence | Bharat Electronics and Esri India Sign MoU to Build GeoAI and GIS Tools for the Armed Forces Bharat Electronics has signed an MoU with Esri India to jointly develop GIS, location-intelligence and GeoAI solutions for the defence sector… | 3 min |
| 10 Aug | Misc | Nasscom's Emerge 50 'League of 10' Signals India's Deep Tech Is Moving From Lab to Market At its Future Forge conference in Bengaluru on 7 August 2026, Nasscom named the Emerge 50 'League of 10' deep-tech startups and released ecosystem… | 4 min |
| 10 Aug | Space | ISRO Performed 29 Collision-Avoidance Manoeuvres in 18 Months as India's Orbits Grow Crowded India's space agency carried out 29 collision-avoidance manoeuvres over the past 18 months to protect its satellites from debris, the government told… | 4 min |
| 10 Aug | Energy | KuhlTherm Launches Made-in-India Data-Centre Cooling Gear, Opens India's First Liquid-Cooling Validation Lab Ahmedabad startup KuhlTherm has launched Made-in-India rear-door heat exchangers and coolant distribution units for AI data centres and opened what… | 4 min |
| 9 Aug | Misc | Mitti Labs Raises $9.5 Million to Turn India's Rice Paddies Into Climate Data India-focused climate-tech startup Mitti Labs has raised a $9.5 million Series A led by Aramco Ventures to scale its GeoAI platform, which uses… | 5 min |
| 9 Aug | Defence | Apollo Micro Systems Bags Rs 213 Crore in Fresh Defence Electronics Orders Hyderabad-listed Apollo Micro Systems has won fresh defence electronics orders worth Rs 213.39 crore from DRDO, defence PSUs and private industry —… | 4 min |
| 9 Aug | AI | Pinegap Raises $8 Million Series A to Put Equity Research on Autopilot Bengaluru-founded Pinegap has raised an $8 million Series A led by Stellaris Venture Partners to scale custom AI agents that automate equity research… | 4 min |
| 8 Aug | Space | Seraphim Puts $25 Million More Into Pixxel, and the Message Is About Sovereign Infrastructure, Not Moonshots London-listed Seraphim Space Investment Trust has deployed a further $25 million into Pixxel, the India-founded hyperspectral imaging company, as… | 5 min |
| 8 Aug | Energy | Adiabatic Technologies Raises ₹8.3 Crore to Build the Batteries India's Drones and Robots Actually Need Pune-based deep-tech startup Adiabatic Technologies has raised ₹8.3 crore (about $1 million) in a seed round co-led by Malpani Ventures and Avinya… | 4 min |
| 8 Aug | Robotics | Solinas Integrity Raises $5.5 Million to Send Robots Where India Still Sends People IIT Madras-incubated robotics company Solinas Integrity has raised $5.5 million (about ₹46 crore) in a Series A1 round led by Hero Enterprise Partner… | 5 min |
| 8 Aug | AI | Consint.AI Raises ₹22 Crore to Turn Its Claims-Fraud Engine Into a Foundation Model Bengaluru deep-tech startup Consint.AI has raised ₹22 crore in Series A funding to expand abroad and build a dedicated AI foundation model for… | 4 min |
| 7 Aug | Defence | Agni-4 Aces 'Textbook' Night Trial off Odisha, Reaffirming India's Deterrent India test-fired its nuclear-capable, canisterised Agni-4 ballistic missile from the Integrated Test Range off Odisha on 6 August 2026, with the… | 3 min |
| 7 Aug | Defence | 'Nipun' Joins the Fleet: India's Second Indigenous Diving Support Vessel Delivered Hindustan Shipyard has delivered Nipun, the Indian Navy's second indigenous Nistar-class Diving Support Vessel, to Visakhapatnam — a nearly… | 4 min |
| 7 Aug | AI | Cisco and IIT Delhi Open a Joint Hub for AI and Cybersecurity Cisco and IIT Delhi have launched a three-year joint Cisco Technology Hub focused on AI and cybersecurity research, skilling and ecosystem-building… | 3 min |
| 7 Aug | Misc | Piper Serica's ₹800 Crore 'Bharat Tech Fund' Hits First Close at ₹300 Crore Mumbai investment firm Piper Serica has marked the first close of its deep-tech Bharat Tech Fund at ₹300 crore against an ₹800 crore target, backing… | 4 min |
| 7 Aug | Nano | 'Nanotech's Next Frontier': Bengaluru India Nano 2026 Puts AI at the Centre The 14th Bengaluru India Nano summit (3–5 August 2026), inaugurated by Karnataka Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar, gathered 80-plus speakers from over 10… | 4 min |
| 7 Aug | Energy | NTPC Charts a 149 GW, Storage-and-Hydrogen Future for FY26 NTPC has outlined a clean-energy build-out targeting 149 GW of capacity by 2032 — including ~60 GW of renewables, 38.9 GWh of battery storage, green… | 4 min |
| 6 Aug | Space | A ₹1 Lakh Battery That Flew: TakeMe2Space's PowerBank-50 Becomes India's First Space-Proven Off-the-Shelf Satellite Battery Hyderabad startup TakeMe2Space says its PowerBank-50 has become India's first commercially available, off-the-shelf satellite battery proven in… | 4 min |
| 6 Aug | Energy | ₹7,000 Crore for Two Reactors: India Puts Numbers — and a Site — on Its Home-Grown Small Modular Reactors In a written reply in Parliament on 3 August 2026, the Centre disclosed the costs of India's indigenous small modular reactors — about ₹7,000 crore… | 4 min |
| 6 Aug | Space | Abyro Capital and T-Hub Launch 'Beacon' to Write the First Cheques for India's Earliest-Stage Space Startups Deep-tech VC Abyro Capital and Hyderabad's T-Hub have launched Beacon, a spacetech platform that will back five early-stage (TRL 2-4) startups with… | 3 min |
| 6 Aug | Energy | Ola Electric Enters Grid-Scale Storage With First 'Mahashakti' Deal — 20 GWh With Axis Energy Ola Electric has signed its first partnership under a new grid-scale storage venture, Mahashakti, agreeing with developer Axis Energy to deploy up to… | 4 min |
| 5 Aug | Energy | Matel Raises ₹130 Crore to Scale Magnet-Free Motors and EV Powertrains Pune-based Matel Motion & Energy Solutions has raised ₹130 crore in a Series B led by UC Impower to expand manufacturing of its energy-efficient… | 3 min |
| 5 Aug | Defence | ideaForge Wins ₹151 Crore RDI Grant for 'YETI', a Heavy-Lift Drone for Himalayan Military Logistics India's Technology Development Board has sanctioned ₹151 crore to ideaForge to build YETI, a hybrid VTOL drone that can carry 200 kg across 200 km to… | 4 min |
| 5 Aug | Defence | DRDO Asks Indian Industry to Build a 50-Drone, Jam-Proof Swarm Flown by One Operator DRDO has floated a Technology Development Fund tender inviting Indian companies to build a swarm of 50 drones that fly in tight seven-by-seven… | 4 min |
| 4 Aug | Space | ISRO Clears Baseline Design Review for BAS-01, India's First Space Station Module ISRO has completed the Baseline Design Review and systems engineering of BAS-01, the first module of the Bharatiya Antariksh Station, releasing 31… | 5 min |
| 4 Aug | Misc | Anicut Capital Floats ₹250 Crore Grand Anicut Seed Fund to Back Early-Stage Deep-Tech Chennai-based Anicut Capital has launched the ₹250 crore Grand Anicut Seed Fund, its second early-stage vehicle, to back over 20 startups across deep… | 4 min |
| 4 Aug | Semis | L&T Semiconductor to Bring Chip Assembly and Test Home as India's OSAT Turns Cost-Competitive L&T Semiconductor Technologies is shifting its OSAT (chip assembly and test) operations to India, with CEO Sandeep Kumar citing globally… | 4 min |
| 3 Aug | Energy | PowerGrid to build ₹5,550 crore transmission backbone for Kurnool's 4.5 GW renewable energy zone On 1 August 2026 PM Modi laid the foundation stone for POWERGRID's ₹5,550 crore transmission system to evacuate 4.5 GW from the Kurnool-IV Renewable… | 3 min |
| 3 Aug | AI | Sarvam to build a trillion-parameter model from scratch, unveils 12 products at Epoch 2026 At its Epoch 2026 conference in Bengaluru on 30 July 2026, Sarvam AI said it is building a trillion-plus-parameter model from scratch in India and… | 4 min |
| 3 Aug | Semis | PM Modi lays foundation for ASIP's chip plant, Andhra Pradesh's first ISM-approved semiconductor unit PM Modi laid the foundation stone on 1 August 2026 for ASIP Technologies' semiconductor assembly-and-test plant near Visakhapatnam — Andhra Pradesh's… | 4 min |
| 2 Aug | Misc | BITS Pilani Hyderabad Turns Vaccine-Factory Wastewater Into Clean Water and Biogas Researchers at BITS Pilani's Hyderabad campus have built a low-energy, three-stage process that uses electric pulses to turn biopharmaceutical and… | 4 min |
| 2 Aug | Robotics | VECROS Unveils Jetcore, an India-Designed 'Brain' for Drones That Fly Without GPS Bengaluru-based deep-tech startup VECROS has unveiled Jetcore, an India-designed AI autonomy compute platform that lets drones and robots localise… | 5 min |
| 2 Aug | Space | India Issues Its First Space Re-Entry Rulebook as Agnikul Prepares an Ocean Booster Recovery IN-SPACe has published India's first authorisation framework for planned atmospheric re-entry, requiring operators to keep ground-casualty risk below… | 5 min |
| 2 Aug | Misc | Inflexor Ventures Marks First Close of Its ₹1,250 Crore Deep-Tech Fund III at ₹400 Crore Inflexor Ventures has completed the first close of its ₹1,250 crore Technology Discovery Fund III at ₹400 crore, backed by the SRI Fund and HDFC AMC… | 4 min |
| 2 Aug | Semis | Marvell to Invest $250 Million in India, Doubling Down on AI Chip Design in Bengaluru and Hyderabad Marvell Technology will invest $250 million in India over three years and roughly double its local headcount, expanding AI chip-design work at a new… | 4 min |
| 2 Aug | Energy | India Green-Lights 12 Hydrogen Mobility Pilots to Put 70 Fuel-Cell and Hydrogen-Engine Vehicles on the Road India has awarded 12 pilot projects under the National Green Hydrogen Mission to deploy 70 hydrogen vehicles — 27 buses and 43 trucks, split between… | 4 min |
| 2 Aug | Biotech | Arboreal Bioinnovations Raises ₹230 Crore to Scale Its 'Post-Sugar' Ingredient Science Specialty food-ingredient company Arboreal Bioinnovations has raised ₹230 crore in a Series A round co-led by EAAA Alternatives and Omnivore, with… | 4 min |
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| 31 Jul | Energy | Rayzon and Navitas Partner Caelux to Bring 10 GW of Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar to India Indian module makers Rayzon Solar and Navitas Solar have each signed five-year deals with US firm Caelux to manufacture perovskite-silicon tandem… | 3 min |
| 31 Jul | Biotech | India Positioned to Ride a $300 Billion Biopharma Patent Cliff, Vallum Capital Report Says A Vallum Capital report released on 29 July 2026 argues India is well positioned to capitalise on a $300 billion drug-patent cliff and a global… | 4 min |
| 31 Jul | Quantum | Bloq Quantum Builds a Kerala Quantum-Skilling Base With SBCE and QClairvoyance Tie-Ups Kerala startup Bloq Quantum has partnered with Sree Buddha College of Engineering and quantum-education firm QClairvoyance to set up a campus quantum… | 3 min |
| 31 Jul | Space | IN-SPACe Crosses 130 Authorisations as India's Private Space Sector Tops 450 Startups India's space regulator IN-SPACe has issued more than 130 authorisations and the private space sector has crossed 450 startups, with private… | 4 min |
| 31 Jul | Energy | Hindalco Emerges as Sole Bidder for India's First Privately Funded Bharat Small Reactor Hindalco Industries is reported to be the only firm to have submitted a formal proposal to NPCIL for a 220 MW captive Bharat Small Reactor — an early… | 5 min |
| 30 Jul | Defence | INS Malvan Commissioned: Second Mahe-Class Submarine-Hunter Joins the Indian Navy The Indian Navy has commissioned INS Malvan, the second Mahe-class Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft built by Cochin Shipyard with over 80%… | 4 min |
| 30 Jul | Robotics | Yaanendriya Raises ₹15 Crore to Build India's Own Navigation and Inertial Sensors Bengaluru deep-tech startup Yaanendriya has raised ₹15 crore in a seed round led by Piper Serica to scale its indigenous inertial sensors and… | 4 min |
| 30 Jul | Energy | India's New 'Electrolyser-as-a-Service' Template Aims to Lower the Bar for Green Hydrogen India's renewable energy ministry has released a standard 'Electrolyser-as-a-Service' model contract under the National Green Hydrogen Mission… | 4 min |
| 29 Jul | Space | India''s Private Spacetech Funding Hits a Record $871 Million as Launch Success Rewires Investor Confidence India''s private space-technology startups have raised a record $871 million across 241 rounds, a Tracxn report says, as Skyroot''s Vikram-1 orbital… | 5 min |
| 29 Jul | Biotech | ICMR Licenses Three Indigenous Biomedical Technologies to Emcure and Biological E for Cancer and Enteric-Fever Vaccines ICMR has licensed three indigenous biomedical technologies — an anti-HPV therapeutic for cervical pre-cancer to Emcure, and two next-generation… | 4 min |
| 29 Jul | Misc | Tata Elxsi and SCTIMST Sign MoU to Build a Medtech Innovation Engine for India Tata Elxsi has signed an MoU with the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute (SCTIMST) to jointly develop diagnostics, medical imaging, digital health and… | 3 min |
| 29 Jul | Semis | "Made in Bharat" Chips for Rockets: Vaishnaw Signals India''s Push for Indigenous Space-Grade Semiconductors Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has signalled that indigenously developed "Made in Bharat" semiconductors will soon go into Indian space launch… | 4 min |
| 28 Jul | Energy | Farm Watt Raises 32.5 Crore to Turn Crop Waste Into India's Biogas Feedstock Bioenergy supply-chain startup Farm Watt Innovations has raised 32.5 crore rupees co-led by IAN Alpha Fund and Rainmatter to expand its biomass… | 4 min |
| 28 Jul | Semis | Centre Clears Two Electronics Manufacturing Clusters in Tamil Nadu Worth 1,012 Crore The Centre has sanctioned two Electronics Manufacturing Clusters in Tamil Nadu — at Manallur and Pillapaikkam — worth 1,012 crore rupees, announced… | 3 min |
| 28 Jul | Misc | India's RDI Fund Picks Its First 22 Deep-Tech Startups, Committing 2,192 Crore in Patient Capital The Technology Development Board has selected the first 22 startups for India's new RDI Fund, approving 2,192 crore rupees of low-cost "patient… | 5 min |
| 28 Jul | Defence | DRDO Signs AEW&C Mk-II Contracts With AIESL and Adani Defence for Six New 'Eyes in the Sky' DRDO has signed two contracts to build the AEW&C Mk-II (Netra Mk II) surveillance aircraft — with AIESL converting six Airbus A321s into radar… | 5 min |
| 28 Jul | Semis | India's IndieSemiC Teams Up With Semtech on a RISC-V Chip for the Internet of Things Gujarat-based fabless startup IndieSemiC has partnered with US chipmaker Semtech to build a RISC-V-based system-in-package that combines computing… | 4 min |
| 27 Jul | Energy | Transition VC Launches ₹1,500 Crore Fund II for Energy and Industrial Deep Tech India's first energy-transition-focused VC, Transition VC, has launched a ₹1,500 crore Fund II to back engineering-led energy, manufacturing and… | 4 min |
| 27 Jul | Space | The ePlane Company Unveils India's First Full-Scale e200X Air Taxi Prototype IIT Madras-incubated The ePlane Company has unveiled the first full-scale prototype of its e200X electric air taxi at a new Chennai facility, with… | 4 min |
| 27 Jul | AI | HCLTech and Sarvam to Build ₹14,257 Crore Sovereign AI Data Centre in Odisha HCLTech, AI startup Sarvam and the Odisha government have signed an MoU to build a ₹14,257 crore sovereign AI data centre in Bhubaneswar — HCLTech's… | 4 min |
| 26 Jul | Energy | India's Grid Finds Its Long-Duration Backbone: SECI Awards 1,344 MW of Pumped Storage In an electronic reverse auction, SECI has awarded 1,344 MW of pumped hydro storage — out of 1,500 MW / 12,000 MWh tendered — to Greenko (720 MW)… | 4 min |
| 26 Jul | Biotech | IIT Bombay's Molecular Scalpel: A New Reaction Turns Fatty Acids Into Anti-Cancer Rings Researchers at IIT Bombay, led by Professor Debabrata Maiti, have published a Nature paper describing a reaction that selectively targets a single… | 5 min |
| 25 Jul | Defence | Raghu Vamsi Aerospace raises $40 million to scale defence-tech and precision manufacturing Hyderabad-based Raghu Vamsi Aerospace Group has raised $40 million in a Series B led by Norwest and Skegen Asset Management to expand precision… | 3 min |
| 25 Jul | Semis | Paras Defence arm to build ₹6,200 crore advanced chip-packaging plant in Madhya Pradesh Paras Defence''s subsidiary Paras Semiconductors has signed a ₹6,200 crore MoU with Madhya Pradesh to build a greenfield advanced OSAT chip-packaging… | 4 min |
| 25 Jul | AI | Radiology-AI marketplace CARPL.ai raises $10 million Series A led by IFC CARPL.ai, an Indian-founded radiology-AI marketplace with over 300 applications from 100-plus partners, has raised $10 million in a Series A led by… | 4 min |
| 25 Jul | Neuro | Bioscan Research raises $1 million to scale CEREBO, its non-invasive brain-injury scanner Mumbai-based Bioscan Research has raised $1 million in a seed round led by Unicorn India Ventures to scale CEREBO, a portable near-infrared… | 5 min |
| 24 Jul | Robotics | Agri-drone maker Suind lines up ₹20.5 crore round led by Transition VC Bengaluru-based Suind is set to raise ₹20.5 crore led by Transition Venture Capital Fund, valuing the autonomous agriculture-drone maker at around… | 4 min |
| 23 Jul | Energy | India Sanctions Its First Utility-Scale Flow Battery: Delectrik to Build 100 MWh Vanadium Store at Khavda NTPC Renewable Energy has awarded India's first utility-scale flow battery — a 100 MWh vanadium redox store built by Delectrik Systems and Bondada… | 4 min |
| 23 Jul | Defence | Azad Engineering Hands DRDO India's First Fully Indigenous Turbojet Engine Hyderabad's Azad Engineering delivered India's first fully indigenous 350-kg thrust-class expendable turbojet engine, designed by DRDO's GTRE, on 22… | 4 min |
| 23 Jul | Space | IIT-Madras Startup D-Propulse Pushes Its Rotating Detonation Engine to TRL-5 IIT-Madras-incubated startup D-Propulse has advanced its rotating detonation engine with an aerospike nozzle to TRL-5, sustaining 5 kN of thrust in… | 4 min |
| 23 Jul | AI | IndiaAI Mission Backs 20 Home-Grown Foundation Models — 12 LLMs and 8 SLMs Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Parliament on 22 July 2026 that the IndiaAI Mission has identified 20 indigenous foundation models for support — 12… | 4 min |
| 22 Jul | Semis | C-DAC Puts Its Homegrown AI Inference Chip Into Trial Production, With HCL Infosystems to Validate It C-DAC has moved its indigenous AI inference chip into trial production and picked HCL Infosystems, chosen through a GeM tender, to validate the… | 4 min |
| 22 Jul | Space | ISRO Charts a Seven-Launch Year and Says the Next Mission Is Two Months Away ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan says the agency is targeting seven launches this financial year, with the next mission due within two months, two… | 5 min |
| 22 Jul | Defence | DRDO Aces Maiden Flight Test of Project Kusha, India's Extended-Range Air Defence Shield DRDO successfully conducted the maiden flight test of the Kusha long-range surface-to-air missile off Odisha on 23 July 2026, advancing India's plan… | 4 min |
| 21 Jul | Defence | AWEIL and IIT Kanpur Sign Pact to Co-Develop Indigenous Military Drones and Ballistic Systems Defence PSU AWEIL and IIT Kanpur have signed an MoU to jointly develop indigenous military drones and advanced ballistic systems, pairing the… | 4 min |
| 21 Jul | Defence | Indian Army Seeks 1,000-km AI-Guided Loitering Munitions Under Make-II Route The Indian Army has invited domestic industry to develop a 1,000-km, AI-guided loitering munition that can strike in GPS-denied conditions. The… | 5 min |
| 21 Jul | Misc | India and EU Open Horizon Europe Talks, Deepen Deep-Tech Ties at Third Trade and Technology Council At the third India-EU Trade and Technology Council in Brussels, the two sides agreed to open negotiations on India's association to the €93.5 billion… | 4 min |
| 21 Jul | Misc | India Commissions Indigenous 'White Rabbit' Network to Secure Indian Standard Time India has commissioned an indigenous 'White Rabbit' fibre network to distribute Indian Standard Time with sub-nanosecond precision, cutting critical… | 4 min |
| 20 Jul | Misc | Cabinet Clears ₹62,500 Crore Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme to Deepen India's Electronics Value Chain The Union Cabinet has approved a five-year, ₹62,500 crore Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme that ties incentives to domestic component sourcing and… | 4 min |
| 20 Jul | AI | Rippling Co-Founder Prasanna Sankar Raises $15 Million for AI Coding Startup Vorflux Prasanna Sankar, co-founder and former CTO of Rippling, has raised a $15 million seed round led by Y Combinator and Peak XV Partners for Vorflux, a… | 3 min |
| 19 Jul | Space | Mission Aagaman: Skyroot's Vikram-1 Becomes India's First Private Rocket to Reach Orbit Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 reached a ~450 km orbit on 18 July 2026, making it the first privately developed Indian rocket to reach space and India… | 5 min |
| 19 Jul | Semis | India Will Take Equity in Chip Startups and Match Their VCs, Round for Round, Under Semicon 2.0 The India Semiconductor Mission will fund chip startups as an equity co-investor under Semicon 2.0 — taking minority stakes, releasing capital… | 4 min |
| 19 Jul | Biotech | India and the Wellcome Trust Put ₹1,500 Crore Behind a New Generation of Biomedical Scientists The government and the UK's Wellcome Trust have launched Phase III of the Biomedical Research Career Programme, a ₹1,500-crore fellowship scheme… | 4 min |
| 18 Jul | Biotech | India Names Its First RDI-Fund Biotech Cohort — and Bets Big on Fermentation BIRAC has selected its first cohort of about eight biotech startups for backing under the government''s ₹1 lakh crore RDI Fund, with term sheets… | 4 min |
| 18 Jul | Energy | KuhlTherm Raises $1.1 Million to Cool India's AI Data Centres With Liquid, Not Air Ahmedabad-based KuhlTherm has raised $1.1 million in seed funding led by Arkam Ventures to scale precision liquid-cooling systems for the AI data… | 3 min |
| 18 Jul | Space | Agnikul Brings in Former ISRO Chief S. Somanath as a Board Observer — Right Before Its Hardest Flight Former ISRO chairman S. Somanath has joined Chennai-based launch startup Agnikul Cosmos as a board observer, weeks before Mission 02 — a flight that… | 5 min |
| 18 Jul | AI | SwitchOn Raises $8 Million to Take Its Factory-Floor 'Physical AI' Global Bengaluru''s SwitchOn has raised $8 million in a pre-Series B round led by IvyCap Ventures to scale its edge-based computer-vision systems, which… | 3 min |
| 17 Jul | AI | TCS and NVIDIA Open a Bengaluru Lab to Drag Industrial AI Out of Pilot Purgatory TCS opened the Autonomous Engineering Lab, Powered by NVIDIA, in Bengaluru on 15 July 2026 — billed as India's first 'physical AI' hub, built to move… | 4 min |
| 17 Jul | AI | Emergent Becomes India's Third AI Unicorn as Its 'Build-an-App-by-Chatting' Platform Hits $1.5 Billion Bengaluru's Emergent, whose AI agents build apps from plain-language prompts, raised $130 million at a $1.5 billion valuation on 15 July 2026 — a… | 5 min |
| 17 Jul | Semis | The Cabinet Clears Semicon 2.0: ₹1.27 Lakh Crore to Build the Rest of India's Chip Supply Chain The Union Cabinet approved the ₹1.27 lakh crore second phase of the India Semiconductor Mission on 15 July 2026, widening incentives for the first… | 5 min |
| 17 Jul | Energy | Meine Electric's Iron-Air Battery Clears Independent Testing — and Claims a Six-Hour Charge An India-based startup says its iron-air battery charges in six hours and discharges over 18 — and has now cleared independent third-party validation… | 4 min |
| 17 Jul | Energy | India's First Hydrogen Train, the Namo Green Rail, Readies for Its Jind–Sonipat Debut India's first hydrogen fuel-cell passenger train — the ICF-built, RDSO-designed "Namo Green Rail" — is set to be flagged off on 17 July for regular… | 4 min |
| 17 Jul | Space | ISRO Clears Three Quiet-but-Critical Gaganyaan Tests, and the Splashdown Comes Into Focus ISRO has qualified three critical Gaganyaan crew-module systems — the flotation bags that self-right the capsule after splashdown, the… | 5 min |
| 17 Jul | Biotech | ICAR's Gene-Edited Rice and GenomeIndia's 10,000 Genomes ICAR's SDN-1 gene-edited rice sidesteps GM regulation while claiming 19% higher yields, and GenomeIndia opens a 10,000-genome dataset, marking an… | 2 min |
| 16 Jul | Quantum | C-DAC's Rigetti Buy and India's Hybrid Quantum-HPC Play C-DAC's $8.4M order for a 108-qubit Rigetti system, paired with the PARAM line, is India's first on-prem quantum-in-supercomputer integration. It… | 3 min |
| 16 Jul | Biotech | Serum Institute Is Making the World's First Bundibugyo Ebola Vaccine — and It's Already in Human Trials Serum Institute of India manufactured the vaccine now in the world's first human trial against Bundibugyo ebolavirus — churning out roughly 620,000… | 4 min |
| 16 Jul | Space | India's Sovereign Space Fund Makes Its First Bet: ₹60 Crore Into Dhruva Space India's first dedicated space-tech venture fund, the ₹1,600 crore Antariksh Venture Capital Fund anchored by IN-SPACe, has made its maiden… | 4 min |
| 16 Jul | Quantum | DRDO Clears Military Field Trials of a Fibre-Based Quantum Key Distribution System DRDO, with Bengaluru startup Taqbit Labs, has completed military field trials of an indigenous fibre-based Quantum Key Distribution system — a… | 4 min |
| 15 Jul | AI | Adani–Jabil Alliance Aims to Make AI Servers in India Adani and Jabil will build liquid-cooled AI racks and power gear in India, moving from hosting compute to manufacturing it, with an… | 2 min |
| 14 Jul | Materials | India Joins a Landmark Spintronics Result: 100,000 Nano-Oscillators That Lock in Step in 45 Nanoseconds An IIT Bhubaneswar–led international team has synchronised more than 100,000 nanoscale spintronic oscillators in about 45 nanoseconds, a Nature… | 5 min |
| 14 Jul | Defence | Two BITS Pilani Students Raise ₹4 Crore for Nightshade, a 600 km/h Jet-Powered Strike Drone Apollyon Dynamics, founded by two BITS Pilani Hyderabad students, has raised ₹4 crore led by Naandi Ventures — with Skyroot, Dhruva Space and Agnikul… | 4 min |
| 14 Jul | Misc | Adage Automation Raises ₹230 Crore to Scale AI-Driven Emissions Monitoring Goa-based Adage Automation, a maker of industrial gas-analysis and emissions-monitoring systems, has raised ₹230 crore led by InCred Growth Partners… | 3 min |
| 14 Jul | Space | HAL Takes Over the SSLV: Commercializing India's Small-Satellite Launcher HAL won the ₹511 crore transfer of ISRO's SSLV, the first full handover of an Indian launch vehicle to one firm. The structure frees ISRO for… | 4 min |
| 13 Jul | Energy | Havells Teams Up With Norway's Pixii to Build Battery Storage for India's Grid Havells India has signed an MoU with Norway's Pixii AS to jointly develop battery energy storage systems for the Indian market, targeting the… | 4 min |
| 13 Jul | Space | ISRO Drops a Crew Module Under Parachute, Clearing the Main Canopy for Gaganyaan's First Flight ISRO has confirmed the successful conduct of IMAT-05, the fifth integrated main-parachute airdrop test for Gaganyaan, held on 7 July 2026 at ADRDE's… | 5 min |
| 13 Jul | Defence | INS Mahendragiri Joins the Fleet, Completing India's Project 17A Stealth-Frigate Line The Indian Navy commissioned INS Mahendragiri at Visakhapatnam on 11 July 2026, the final ship of the seven-vessel Project 17A stealth-frigate… | 4 min |
| 12 Jul | Semis | India's Fabless Moment: 12nm Silicon, RISC-V Franchises and the DLI Scorecard Netrasemi's 12nm Edge-AI SoC and Mindgrove's RISC-V chips are taking India's fabless ambition from policy to silicon, with the DLI scheme's 16… | 3 min |
| 12 Jul | Energy | BHEL and thyssenkrupp nucera Team Up to Build India's Own Green-Hydrogen Electrolysers BHEL has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with thyssenkrupp nucera India to jointly manufacture alkaline electrolyser systems in India… | 4 min |
| 12 Jul | Semis | L&T's Chip Arm Signs a Taiwan Pact to Build India's Power Semiconductors L&T Semiconductor Technologies has signed an MoU with Taiwan's Azuremoto Technologies to jointly develop silicon-carbide and power-semiconductor… | 3 min |
| 12 Jul | Misc | India, Australia and Canada Sign ACITI, a Tech Pact Built Around Critical Minerals and AI India, Australia and Canada have signed an MoU establishing the ACITI Partnership, a trilateral framework spanning AI, quantum computing, critical… | 4 min |
| 12 Jul | Misc | India Scraps Import Duties on the Inputs for Batteries, Displays and Inductors India's Finance Ministry has waived basic customs duty on inputs for display assemblies, lithium-ion cells and inductor coil modules — including an… | 3 min |
| 11 Jul | Biotech | Gene Therapy, Made in India: CRISPR for Sickle Cell and a Hemophilia Cure BIRSA 101, India's first indigenous CRISPR therapy for sickle cell, and a Vellore haemophilia trial reporting a zero bleeding rate in NEJM together… | 6 min |
| 11 Jul | Space | BAAS Technologies Banks ₹5 Crore to Build Reusable Rockets — and the Engines to Fly Them BAAS Technologies, a 2024-founded Nashik startup, has raised ₹5 crore in a pre-seed round led by Inflection Point Ventures with SINE IIT Bombay, to… | 5 min |
| 11 Jul | Semis | IIT Hyderabad and Silicon Labs Team Up to Put Indian Silicon Inside Indian Medical Devices IIT Hyderabad's Centre for Healthcare Entrepreneurship has signed an MoU with US chipmaker Silicon Labs to give Indian medical-device startups access… | 4 min |
| 11 Jul | Energy | Vimag Labs Banks a Fifth Patent for a Motor That Runs Without a Single Magnet Bengaluru startup Vimag Labs has won its fifth Indian patent for its Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor — a software-defined, rare-earth-magnet-free… | 3 min |
| 10 Jul | Quantum | Amaravati Quantum Valley and the Race to 1,000 Qubits Andhra Pradesh's new IBM Quantum System Two gives India its largest quantum computer at 156 qubits. The investable story is not the hardware IBM… | 6 min |
| 10 Jul | AI | Blurgs AI Raises $2.2 Million to Scale the Software Watching India''s Seas and Borders Chennai- and Bengaluru-based Blurgs AI, founded by IIT Madras alumni, has raised $2.2 million led by Pravega Ventures and Shastra VC to expand its AI… | 4 min |
| 10 Jul | Semis | Gujarat and IIT Gandhinagar Commit Rs 190 Crore to SAMARTH, a Factory for Chip Talent Gujarat, MeitY and IIT Gandhinagar have committed Rs 190 crore to SAMARTH, a semiconductor research-and-training hub aimed at making students and… | 4 min |
| 10 Jul | Biotech | eNLife Research Raises ₹6 Crore to Hunt Alzheimer's in a Drop of Blood — Years Before Symptoms Bengaluru deep-tech startup eNLife Research has raised ₹6 crore led by Piper Serica VC Fund to build an AI-powered blood test that aims to detect… | 5 min |
| 9 Jul | AI | BharatGen and the Portfolio Logic of India's Sovereign-Model Bet India funds twelve foundation-model efforts, not one. BharatGen's ₹1,058 crore anchors a portfolio spanning reasoning, voice and verticals, with… | 3 min |
| 9 Jul | Defence | DRDO Flight-Tests the Guided Pinaka, Turning a Rocket Barrage Into a Precision Strike DRDO successfully flight-tested the Pinaka Long Range Guided Rocket at Chandipur on 8 July 2026, hitting a target at a user-defined 60 km range and… | 4 min |
| 9 Jul | Robotics | Mowito Raises $3 Million to Teach Factory Robot Arms by Showing, Not Programming Bengaluru- and Detroit-based Mowito has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding led by Version One Ventures, with PyTorch creator Soumith Chintala… | 4 min |
| 8 Jul | Space | India's Earth-Observation Edge: Pixxel's NRO Win, GalaxEye's OptoSAR and NISAR's Open Data Pixxel's US NRO hyperspectral contract, GalaxEye's first-on-orbit OptoSAR fusion and NISAR's 100,000+ free L-band SAR products reframe Indian Earth… | 6 min |
| 8 Jul | Space | ISRO Fires the CE20 for LVM3-M7, Debuting a Nozzle Shield to Guard Its 22-Tonne Upgrade ISRO has cleared the CE20 cryogenic engine for its next heavy-lift flight, LVM3-M7, firing it at up to 22 tonnes of thrust and debuting a Nozzle… | 5 min |
| 8 Jul | Defence | India and Indonesia Seal a $600-Million Missile Pact, Sending BrahMos and Astra to Jakarta India and Indonesia signed a defence package worth more than $600 million during PM Modi's Jakarta visit on 7 July 2026, sending the BrahMos cruise… | 5 min |
| 7 Jul | Robotics | India's Defense-Drone Boom: Raphe mPhibr, ideaForge and Garuda's IPO Raphe mPhibr's $100M raise, ideaForge's 52.6% EBITDA margin and Garuda's ₹1,000 crore IPO filing mark India's drone sector turning investable… | 6 min |
| 7 Jul | Materials | Tulon Materials Raises ₹10 Crore to Turn Plastic Waste Into Specialty Chemicals Tulon Materials has raised ₹10 crore in a seed round led by investor Karthik Sundar Iyer, with Valour Capital participating, to commercialise a… | 4 min |
| 7 Jul | Energy | Albatross Energetics Raises ₹10 Crore to Cool India's Factories With Less Power Bengaluru deep-tech startup Albatross Energetics has raised about ₹10 crore ($1.05 million) in a pre-Series A round led by Transition VC to scale its… | 5 min |
| 6 Jul | Space | Agnikul and Finland's ICEYE Sign On to Build India a Sovereign Radar-Satellite Chain Chennai's Agnikul Cosmos has signed an MoU with Finland's ICEYE to explore an end-to-end, India-built synthetic aperture radar constellation —… | 4 min |
| 6 Jul | Energy | Adani Green Crosses 20 GW, the First Indian Renewable Company to Reach That Scale Adani Green Energy has become the first Indian renewable company to cross 20 GW of operational capacity, built almost entirely on greenfield sites… | 5 min |
| 6 Jul | Space | ISRO Fires the Motor for SOLVE, the Small Rocket That Will Rehearse Gaganyaan's Splashdown ISRO has test-fired the solid motor for SOLVE, a purpose-built sub-orbital vehicle designed to loft a Gaganyaan crew module to 10-17 km and validate… | 4 min |
| 5 Jul | Space | DRDO Eyes ISRO's New Kulasekharapatnam Spaceport for Rapid-Response Spy Satellites At the CII Tamil Nadu Defence X Conclave 2026, DRDO's Dr B.K. Das said the agency is drawing up a roadmap to use ISRO's upcoming Kulasekharapatnam… | 3 min |
| 5 Jul | Misc | India Launches Its First Drone Cooperative and a '1 Panchayat, 1 Drone Udyami' Mission India launched its first national drone cooperative — the Drone Tech Multi-State Co-operative Society — at the National Drone Summit 2026 in New… | 3 min |
| 5 Jul | Robotics | Zoho Buys Kochi Robotics Startup Asimov and Opens a Deep-Tech R&D Campus in Small-Town Kerala Zoho Corporation has acquired Kochi-based deep-tech startup Asimov Robotics, announcing the deal on 2 July 2026 as it opened a new AI-and-robotics… | 3 min |
| 5 Jul | Semis | PM Modi Inaugurates CG Semi's Sanand Plant, India's First Big Chip-Packaging Line to Go Commercial PM Modi inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi's Rs 7,600-crore G1 OSAT plant in Sanand on 4 July 2026, making it one of India's first big chip… | 3 min |
| 4 Jul | Defence | Defence Council Clears ₹52,000 Crore in Buys, Anchored by 'Akash Tarang' Anti-Drone and Home-Grown Anti-Tank Missiles On 3 July 2026 the Defence Acquisition Council, chaired by Rajnath Singh, cleared about ₹52,000 crore of buys led by the indigenous 'Akash Tarang'… | 3 min |
| 4 Jul | Space | Skyroot Opens a July Launch Window for Vikram-1's Maiden Orbital Flight — Mission Aagaman Skyroot Aerospace has opened a 12 July–4 August 2026 launch window for Mission Aagaman, the maiden orbital flight of Vikram-1, India's first… | 3 min |
| 4 Jul | Misc | India and Japan Sign an Economic-Security Pact on Chips, Critical Minerals and Quantum — and a First Joint Defence Project At the 16th India-Japan Annual Summit on 2 July 2026, Modi and Takaichi signed a Joint Declaration on Economic Security spanning semiconductors… | 4 min |
| 3 Jul | AI | Noon Acquires FinalRun, the Bengaluru Startup Whose AI Agents Top Google's Android Test Benchmark AI product-design platform Noon has acquired Bengaluru's FinalRun, whose AI agents for mobile test automation topped Google DeepMind's Android World… | 3 min |
| 3 Jul | Energy | BatX Energies Raises Rs 105 Crore to Mine Critical Minerals From Dead Batteries Gurugram's BatX Energies has raised Rs 105 crore in a Series A led by IvyCap Ventures to scale its recovery of lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite… | 3 min |
| 3 Jul | Semis | Finance Ministry Panel Clears a Rs 1.25 Lakh Crore Outlay for Semiconductor Mission 2.0 The Expenditure Finance Committee has cleared a Rs 1.25 lakh crore outlay for India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 — well above ISM 1.0's Rs 76,000 crore… | 3 min |
| 3 Jul | Defence | IIT Delhi and DRDO Fly an Indigenous Tactical Aerostat Built to Watch From 20 km IIT Delhi demonstrated an indigenous tactical aerostat developed under DRDO's SITEX programmes and built by FITT-incubated startup GB Texcoat… | 3 min |
| 3 Jul | Defence | HAL Wins the Licence to Build Tejas Servo Valves at Home, Closing a Quiet Import Gap HAL and DRDO's Research Centre Imarat signed a transfer-of-technology licence on 27 June 2026 letting HAL build indigenous electro-hydraulic servo… | 4 min |
| 3 Jul | Defence | India Rewrites DRDO's Financial Rulebook to Speed Weapons From Lab to Frontline On 29 June 2026, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh released DFP-2026, a reform of DRDO's financial powers meant to fund trials and pre-project research… | 3 min |
| 3 Jul | Materials | IISc Builds a Porous Crystal That Switches Its Magnetism with Heat, Light and Pressure IISc researchers have built a porous, beehive-like crystal whose magnetism can be switched on and off reversibly — by heat, light, pressure or… | 4 min |
| June 2026 · 54 stories |
| 30 Jun | Defence | India's Home-Built 'Eye in the Sky' Clears Its Last Hurdle: Netra AEW&C Gets Final Operational Clearance On 25 June 2026, DRDO handed the Indian Air Force the Final Operational Clearance for its indigenous Netra airborne early-warning system — capping a… | 4 min |
| 28 Jun | Biotech | India Validates Its First Home-Grown HPV Test, Setting a Global Benchmark for Cheaper Cervical-Cancer Screening Molbio Diagnostics' Truenat HPV-HR Plus has become India's first indigenous HPV DNA test to meet WHO-IARC validation standards — and the world's… | 4 min |
| 28 Jun | Energy | India Splits Water With Reactor Heat: World's First Copper-Chlorine Nuclear Hydrogen Plant Opens at Kalpakkam On 26 June 2026 India's Department of Atomic Energy opened what it calls the world's first hydrogen plant to use the Copper-Chlorine thermochemical… | 4 min |
| 28 Jun | Space | ISRO Fires Its Semi-Cryogenic Engine to 175 Tonnes, Within Reach of a Full 200-Tonne Powerplant ISRO fired the power head of its semi-cryogenic engine at 175 tonnes of thrust on 24 June 2026 — 88 percent of full rating — clearing the way for a… | 4 min |
| 28 Jun | Energy | TruAlt Lands ₹150 Crore to Build One of India's First Commercial Sustainable Aviation Fuel Plants TruAlt Bioenergy has won ₹150 crore in central assistance under the PM JI-VAN Yojana to build a commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuel plant in… | 4 min |
| 26 Jun | Space | QOSMIC Raises $3.33M to Build India's Laser Backbone for Space Data Bengaluru deep-tech startup QOSMIC has raised $3.33 million from Accel, Prosus and others to build laser-based optical communication systems for… | 3 min |
| 26 Jun | Defence | India Orders Its Own Marine Gas Turbine Generators in a ₹425-Crore Navy Deal India's Ministry of Defence has signed a ₹425 crore contract with Bharat Forge for 12 sets of indigenous 1.25 MW Marine Gas Turbine Generators for… | 3 min |
| 26 Jun | Defence | India Commissions Three Home-Built Warships in a Single Day at Kolkata PM Modi commissioned three home-built warships — stealth frigate INS Dunagiri, survey ship INS Sanshodhak and anti-submarine craft INS Agray — into… | 3 min |
| 26 Jun | Energy | India Moves Up the Solar Stack: Two New TOPCon Cell Lines Fire Up in a Week In a single week in late June 2026, EMMVEE and Jupiter International both fired up new high-efficiency TOPCon solar cell lines — and EMMVEE ordered… | 3 min |
| 26 Jun | Materials | Rainmatter Bets ₹56 Crore on Karo Sambhav's Plan to Mine Critical Minerals From E-Waste Gurugram-based recycler Karo Sambhav has raised ₹56 crore in a pre-Series A round led by Zerodha's Rainmatter — its first outside capital in nine… | 4 min |
| 26 Jun | Space | IN-SPACe Puts the PSLV — and the LVM3 — Up for Private Technology Transfer IN-SPACe has issued Expressions of Interest to transfer full technology for ISRO's PSLV — and, for the first time, the heavy-lift LVM3 — to majority… | 4 min |
| 24 Jun | AI | Pramaana Labs Raises $27M to Build a Layer That Checks What AI Actually Claims Bengaluru's Pramaana Labs has raised $27 million in one of India's largest AI seed rounds, led by Khosla Ventures, to pair language models with… | 4 min |
| 24 Jun | Energy | India Backs Its First Green-Hydrogen Startups and Switches On a Certification Portal On 17 June 2026 India cleared its first ₹22 crore for nine startups under the National Green Hydrogen Mission's ₹100 crore support scheme and… | 4 min |
| 24 Jun | AI | ContraVault Raises $3.1M to Turn India's Tender Paperwork into Bid Intelligence Bengaluru's ContraVault AI has raised $3.1 million led by Chiratae Ventures to apply language models to infrastructure tenders — a vertical-AI bet on… | 4 min |
| 24 Jun | Defence | From a 500-Square-Foot Boardroom to the Border: Big Bang Boom's Vajra Sentinel Reaches the Air Force Chennai startup Big Bang Boom Solutions delivered the first lot of its indigenous Vajra Sentinel counter-drone system to the Indian Air Force on 20… | 3 min |
| 24 Jun | Defence | Zorawar Clears High-Altitude Firing Trials, Giving India a China-Facing Light Tank DRDO and L&T's 25-tonne Zorawar put live rounds on target above 4,200 metres at Nyoma in eastern Ladakh, and was airlifted in by an IAF Il-76 — a… | 3 min |
| 24 Jun | Defence | Sagar Defence's Armed Robot Boats Put India in a Very Small Club A Pune startup's autonomous, gun-armed surface drones — capable of 50 knots and operating through GPS denial — are heading to the Indian Navy under… | 3 min |
| 24 Jun | Defence | DRDO Re-Validates Fourth-Generation VSHORADS, India's Hit-to-Kill Answer to the Drone Age Three back-to-back hits at Chandipur on 27 February 2026 — against approaching, receding and crossing targets — moved DRDO's man-portable air defence… | 3 min |
| 24 Jun | Defence | At Eurosatory 2026, Bharat Forge's Kalyani Unveils the Simha 4x4 — an Armoured Vehicle Built to Export Kalyani Strategic Systems and South Africa's Paramount used the Paris defence expo to debut the Simha 4x4, a clean-sheet light armoured vehicle… | 3 min |
| 24 Jun | Materials | India Cracks Indigenous GaN-on-SiC, the Material Behind Modern Radar DRDO's Solid State Physics Laboratory has developed home-grown processes for 4-inch silicon-carbide wafers and gallium-nitride HEMTs and MMICs up to… | 3 min |
| 24 Jun | Defence | EyeROV's ₹47-Crore Navy Order Signals the Coming-of-Age of Indian Marine Robotics Kochi's EyeROV has won one of India's largest marine-robotics contracts — a ₹47-crore Indian Navy order for indigenous underwater remotely operated… | 3 min |
| 24 Jun | Materials | ISRO Lights a 3D-Printed Methane Engine: a Small Test With Outsized Implications On 27 January 2026 ISRO hot-fired a sub-scale LOX-methane thrust chamber whose chamber and injector were entirely 3D-printed, reaching 56 bar with… | 3 min |
| 24 Jun | Materials | ISRO's Bootstrap Start on the CE20: a Clever Trick That Buys Payload and Restarts ISRO has started its CE20 cryogenic engine in 'bootstrap' mode, with no auxiliary start-up system, for 10 seconds under vacuum, a feat it believes… | 3 min |
| 24 Jun | Materials | ISRO Goes All-Electric on the LVM3's Boosters, Quietly Banking ~150 kg of Payload On its 24 December 2025 LVM3-M6 mission, also ISRO's 100th orbital launch, ISRO debuted electromechanical actuators on the giant S200 solid boosters… | 2 min |
| 24 Jun | Materials | ISRO Opens India's Own Titanium Propellant-Tank Line at Tumakuru On 3 September 2025 ISRO's LPSC opened an Integrated Titanium Alloy Propellant Tank Production Facility at Tumakuru, bringing in-house a specialised… | 2 min |
| 23 Jun | Materials | A 28nm NavIC Chip Moves India Up the Semiconductor Value Chain MosChip Technologies has delivered a custom 28nm system-on-chip to ISRO's Space Applications Centre for the NavIC navigation programme, completing… | 2 min |
| 22 Jun | AI | The Non-Dilutive Playbook: iDEX and NERVE CoE Are Quietly Rewriting Deep Tech's Funding Logic in India iDEX offers up to ₹1.5 crore equity-free for defence deep tech; NERVE CoE pairs ₹50 lakh with direct GPU infrastructure for Agentic AI startups. Both… | 7 min |
| 22 Jun | Space | ISRO Opens India's Skies to AI Builders: The Bharatiya Antariksh Hackathon and the SAR-to-Optical Architecture That Could Redefine Tropical Earth Observation On June 21 2026, ISRO opened its proprietary SAR and hyperspectral datasets to domestic AI developers via the Bharatiya Antariksh Hackathon. Here is… | 7 min |
| 22 Jun | AI | From Hallucination to Theorem: How India's ICAANS 2026 Consortium Is Betting the Drone Swarm on Neuro-Symbolic AI On June 20 2026, the ICAANS 2026 consortium finalised frameworks marking India's formal institutional shift from pure deep learning toward… | 9 min |
| 19 Jun | Robotics | Svaya and NewSpace Push Indigenous Defense Robots and Autonomous Swarms Svaya Robotics built India's first indigenous quadruped and a soldier exoskeleton, while NewSpace supplies the Navy's 'Abhimanyu' stealth drone, an… | 2 min |
| 18 Jun | Misc | Bharat Innovates 2026: How Nice Became the Pivot Point for Indian Deep Tech At Bharat Innovates 2026 in Nice, ~$254.5M in FDI and 50+ agreements signalled Indian deep tech's rotation from low-margin SaaS to sovereign hardware… | 4 min |
| 18 Jun | Semis | India Bets on Compound Semiconductors: SiCSem's SiC Fab and Polymatech's GaN Plant SiCSem's silicon carbide fab in Odisha and Polymatech's gallium nitride plant in Chhattisgarh mark India's entry into wide-bandgap power electronics… | 2 min |
| 17 Jun | Robotics | Meril's MISSO and the Push for Affordable Indigenous Surgical Robots Meril's MISSO, a 100% Made-in-India knee-replacement robot priced 66% below incumbents, attacks Stryker's Mako on cost and signals India now has… | 3 min |
| 17 Jun | Misc | 113 Patents from Kashmir: IUST and the Decentralisation of Indian Deep Tech IUST Awantipora reported a 113-patent portfolio spanning doped ceramic adsorbents, solar thermal storage and healthcare robotics, backed by ₹107.61cr… | 3 min |
| 17 Jun | Quantum | QNu Labs Takes QShield to Europe: QKD, Post-Quantum Crypto and the TU/e Pact QNu Labs unveiled QShield, an integrated PQC-plus-QKD platform, and signed research and BFSI deals in France. We unpack the wavefunction-collapse… | 7 min |
| 16 Jun | Semis | HCL-Foxconn Breaks Ground on a Display-Driver Fab at Jewar The HCL-Foxconn joint venture broke ground at Jewar on a ₹3,706 crore display-driver IC fab, North India's first major semiconductor unit, targeting… | 2 min |
| 16 Jun | Semis | iElectron and ALTEN: Europe Starts Sourcing Indian Hardware IP, Not Just Code Under Bharat Innovates 2026, embedded-systems firm iElectron signed an MoU with France's ALTEN to design ECUs and fault-tolerant avionic buses… | 4 min |
| 16 Jun | AI | SAP Labs India's 2026 Studio Bets on Agentic AI and Quantum-Safe Startups SAP Labs India's Startup Studio Cohort 2026 takes no equity, instead offering ANSCER, Pulse Energy, QNu Labs and Drishya AI access to its ERP data… | 3 min |
| 16 Jun | AI | Detect Technologies Lands TotalEnergies, Exporting Indian Industrial AI Detect Technologies' edge-native, CNN-driven asset-management software wins a TotalEnergies deployment, converting IIT Madras incubation into… | 3 min |
| 15 Jun | Biotech | Precision Fermentation and India's Bid to Become the 'Fermentation Capital of the World' StrainX Bioworks' $13M round and Alt Carbon's Microsoft carbon-removal offtake rest on the same bet: India's fermentation costs run a third to a… | 3 min |
| 15 Jun | Misc | TuTr Hyperloop's Materials Problem, and Why thyssenkrupp Just Signed On TuTr Hyperloop signed a commercial MoU with thyssenkrupp at Bharat Innovates 2026. The deal targets the category's hardest bottleneck: manufacturing… | 6 min |
| 13 Jun | Neuro | IIT Madras Maps the Human Brainstem at Cellular Resolution IIT Madras's Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre released ANCHOR, an open-access 3D atlas of the human brainstem at cellular resolution, mapping more… | 3 min |
| 13 Jun | Quantum | QNu Labs Hits 1,000 km of Quantum-Secure Communication QNu Labs' VIAVI-validated 1,000 km QKD network puts India halfway to the NQM's 2,000 km goal, with a defence and BFSI moat via GeM. The caveat: it is… | 4 min |
| 12 Jun | AI | India's AI Data-Center Supercycle: Reliance, Meta and the Neocloud Gold Rush Reliance, Adani, Meta, Neysa and Yotta have committed tens of billions to Indian AI data centres in months. The binding constraint is not GPUs but… | 6 min |
| 11 Jun | Energy | Exponent Energy Raises ₹200 Crore to Scale 15-Minute EV Charging Bengaluru's Exponent Energy raised ₹200 crore to expand a battery-and-charger system that takes commercial EVs from 0 to 100% in about 15 minutes on… | 3 min |
| 11 Jun | Space | Digantara's Bet on Space-Situational Awareness and Missile Defense Digantara's $50M Series B funds 15 tracking satellites and a pivot to space-based missile warning. The debris-tracking base business is high-margin… | 4 min |
| 10 Jun | Biotech | India's CAR-T Moment: ImmunoACT, Immuneel and the Cost Revolution in Cell Therapy India now has two approved indigenous CAR-T therapies priced an order of magnitude below the West. With Cipla's first export deal and Immuneel's ₹100… | 6 min |
| 10 Jun | Space | The ePlane Company Clears DGCA's Design Bar as It Lines Up a Series C The ePlane Company is the first private Indian entity to win a DGCA Design Organisation Approval for its e200X eVTOL, a durable regulatory moat now… | 4 min |
| 9 Jun | Semis | India's Packaging Cluster Goes Live: Micron, Kaynes, CG Power and Tata's Assam Giant Before a single domestic wafer is fabricated, four ATMP projects have moved India to shipping product, with Kaynes exporting the first indigenously… | 6 min |
| 7 Jun | Quantum | DRDO and IIT Delhi Demonstrate Free-Space Entanglement QKD Over a Kilometre DRDO and IIT Delhi achieved India's first entanglement-based free-space QKD over more than a kilometre, at ~240 bits/s and QBER below 7%. It is the… | 2 min |
| 6 Jun | Robotics | SS Innovations and the Rise of Indian Surgical Robotics SS Innovations ran the world's longest-distance telesurgery, Guyana to Indore, on a system priced at a tenth of da Vinci. Behind the headline is a… | 6 min |
| 5 Jun | AI | Krutrim Retreats From Frontier Models, Pivoting to AI Cloud India's first GenAI unicorn paused its chips and frontier models, cut 200-plus roles and pivoted to enterprise AI cloud, a cautionary signal that… | 2 min |
| 4 Jun | Space | IN-SPACe Funds Indigenous Satellite Buses to Crack Constellation Economics IN-SPACe's SBaaS contracts give Dhruva Space, Astrome and Azista ₹5 crore each for modular small-sat buses, while Dhruva's ₹105 crore Project Garud… | 2 min |
| 4 Jun | Nano | ARI Pune's Nanomedicine Silences Breast-Cancer 'Survival Genes' DST's Agharkar Research Institute unveiled a biodegradable silica nanocarrier that delivers two gene-silencing siRNAs into breast-cancer cells… | 4 min |
| May 2026 · 19 stories |
| 29 May | Energy | Reliance Bets on Sodium-Ion at Its 40 GWh Jamnagar Gigafactory Reliance plans to start a 40 GWh battery gigafactory at Jamnagar in the second half of 2026, built partly on Faradion's sodium-ion technology, a… | 2 min |
| 28 May | Biotech | Serum Institute and Oxford License a Next-Generation Malaria Vaccine Serum Institute and Oxford's Jenner Institute have licensed R78C, a multi-stage malaria vaccine targeting two blood-stage antigens for more durable… | 2 min |
| 26 May | Robotics | India's Warehouse-Robotics Players Scale With the Logistics Boom Reliance-backed Addverb and peers like GreyOrange are scaling AMR, sortation and ASRS systems on India's quick-commerce boom, with PLI and reshoring… | 2 min |
| 25 May | Space | Agnikul's Four-Engine Cluster Test and the Electric-Pump Bet on Cheap Orbit Agnikul Cosmos ground-tested a four-Agnilet cluster, using an electric pump-fed cycle to turn thrust-matching into software-defined throttling. With… | 7 min |
| 24 May | Nano | India Wires Up Its Nano-Fabrication Base, From Cleanrooms to Startups With the new Wadhwani-IISc centre, ₹720 crore for quantum-chip fabs and a sensors-and-MEMS track in ISM 2.0, India is turning its shared… | 5 min |
| 23 May | Semis | ISM 2.0's ₹40,000 Crore Pivot to Equipment, Materials and IP India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 redirects ₹40,000 crore from fabs toward equipment, materials and full-stack IP, the hardest, highest-moat layer of… | 3 min |
| 22 May | Robotics | GenRobotics Scales Its Bandicoot Sanitation Robots at Home and Abroad GenRobotics turned the NAMASTE manual-scavenging mandate into recurring municipal O&M revenue, winning a ₹17 crore Ahmedabad tender and an ~₹80 crore… | 4 min |
| 21 May | Neuro | India's Neurotech Funding Wave: Temple, Mave and Sychedelic From Deepinder Goyal's $54M Temple to Mave Health and Sychedelic, Indian neurotech startups raised a string of rounds in early 2026, pushing brain… | 3 min |
| 20 May | AI | IndiaAI Mission's Compute Pool Crosses 38,000 GPUs at the World's Cheapest Subsidised Rates India's common compute pool now spans 38,000-plus GPUs at under ₹100 per GPU-hour after subsidy, a fraction of hyperscaler rates. It is the… | 3 min |
| 19 May | Quantum | India's National Quantum Mission Expands Its Startup Cohort to 17 The National Quantum Mission added nine startups on 9 April 2026, taking its funded cohort to 17. The new intake skews toward sensing, photonics and… | 2 min |
| 18 May | Biotech | BioE3 and the ₹2,000 Crore Fund Powering India's Biomanufacturing Push India's bioeconomy hit $195.3 billion in 2025. The new ₹2,000 crore BIRAC-RDI Fund and the BioE3 policy's shared biofoundries target the country's… | 3 min |
| 15 May | Space | Agnikul Raises at ~$500M as Tamil Nadu Takes a Rare Government Equity Stake Agnikul is reportedly raising $50-75M at ~$500M, but the standout is Tamil Nadu's TIDCO taking a ₹25 crore equity stake, a rare government bet on a… | 2 min |
| 15 May | Semis | Mindgrove's RISC-V Secure SoC and the Pinetics Deal That Embeds It Chennai's Mindgrove has put a domestically architected 28 nm RISC-V Secure SoC into a real production design win with Pune ODM Pinetics, claiming 30%… | 7 min |
| 14 May | Quantum | QpiAI's Kaveri and India's Superconducting-Qubit Gambit QpiAI's 64-qubit flip-chip Kaveri processor and its $32M NQM-backed Series A make Bengaluru India's best-funded quantum bet. The qubit count is real… | 6 min |
| 11 May | Semis | Dholera: Inside India's First Commercial Wafer Fab Tata Electronics and Taiwan's PSMC are building India's first greenfield 300mm fab at Dholera, a ₹91,000 crore bet on mature-node silicon de-risked… | 6 min |
| 8 May | AI | Sarvam's Sovereign-AI Stack: From Open-Weights Frontier Models to Unicorn Status Ten weeks after open-sourcing two frontier models trained on subsidised IndiaAI compute, Sarvam closed a $234M Series B at $1.5B. It is the clearest… | 7 min |
| 8 May | Space | Skyroot's $60M Unicorn Round: The Cap Table Behind India's First Private Orbital Shot Skyroot's $60M raise at a $1.1B pre-money made it India's first space-tech unicorn — co-led by Sherpalo and GIC, with BlackRock joining. The… | 6 min |
| 7 May | Space | Skyroot's Vikram-1 and India's First Private Orbital Shot Skyroot became India's first space-tech unicorn on a ~$60M raise at ~$1.1B, and placed its carbon-composite Vikram-1 at Sriharikota. A June 2026… | 6 min |
| 6 May | Space | Inside GalaxEye's Drishti: The Physics of the World's First OptoSAR Satellite GalaxEye's ~190 kg Mission Drishti co-locates X-band SAR and a 7-band multispectral imager on one bench, fusing them in orbit. The SyncFusion… | 7 min |
| April 2026 · 4 stories |
| 24 Apr | Neuro | Adaptive Brain Stimulation Arrives in India as a Cheaper Rival Looms Medtronic launched its adaptive deep-brain-stimulation system in India even as SCTIMST and BARC develop AnuChitra, an indigenous device aimed at… | 4 min |
| 9 Apr | Nano | CSIR-NEIST Turns India's Low-Grade Graphite into Graphene Oxide Scientists at CSIR-NEIST in Assam demonstrated a process to upgrade low-grade Northeast-India graphite into graphene oxide, an import-substitution… | 2 min |
| 3 Apr | Energy | India's Cell Gigafactories Rise as the PLI Scorecard Lags Tata's Agratas topped out the steel frame of its 20 GWh Sanand plant and Reliance readies a 40 GWh line, but only about 2.8% of the battery PLI… | 5 min |
| 1 Apr | Energy | India's Green Ammonia Hits ₹49.75/kg in SECI's Record-Low Deals SECI signed ten-year supply deals for 670,000 tonnes a year of green ammonia at tariffs starting at ₹49.75 a kilogram, among the world's lowest… | 4 min |
| March 2026 · 4 stories |
| 27 Mar | Neuro | NIMHANS Opens CALM-Brain, India's First Psychiatric Data Repository NIMHANS launched CALM-Brain, India's first repository of clinical, imaging, genetic and behavioural data across five psychiatric disorders, the data… | 3 min |
| 24 Mar | Energy | Pranos Fusion Raises $6.8M to Build India's First Private Tokamak Bengaluru's Pranos Fusion raised $6.8M to build a compact tokamak and the high-temperature superconducting magnets that go with it, moving fusion out… | 5 min |
| 12 Mar | Energy | Newtrace Raises $6.3M to Build Membrane-Free Electrolysers Bengaluru's Newtrace raised $6.3M to commercialise a membrane-free electrolyser design aimed at cutting the capital cost of green hydrogen… | 2 min |
| 6 Mar | Neuro | IISc's Brain Co-Processor Moonshot Targets Stroke Recovery IISc launched a 'moonshot' to build brain co-processors, implantable and wearable systems that decode neural activity, process it with AI and… | 5 min |
| February 2026 · 2 stories |
| 24 Feb | Neuro | MANAS-1: India's First Brain-Wave Foundation Model NeuroDX's MANAS-1, a 400-million-parameter model trained on 60,000 hours of EEG from more than 25,000 patients, is India's first 'brain language' AI… | 5 min |
| 16 Feb | Nano | Kerala's Graphene Bet: India's First State Graphene Policy Kerala approved India's first comprehensive graphene policy, backing an industrial park in Palakkad and subsidies to build a domestic graphene… | 4 min |
| January 2026 · 1 story |
| 30 Jan | Nano | Graphite India's ₹4,330 Crore Bet on Battery Anode Materials Graphite India's board approved a ₹4,330 crore push into synthetic graphite anode materials for lithium-ion cells, an attempt to localise a… | 3 min |
| December 2025 · 1 story |
| 23 Dec | Nano | IIT Madras Builds a 'Nano-Injection' Chip for Breast-Cancer Drugs IIT Madras and Australian partners built a silicon-nanotube platform that injects chemotherapy directly into breast-cancer cells, reporting a 23-fold… | 3 min |
