Trends & Future-Focused
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India’s AI intrusions expose a dangerous gap between testing and the real world
Agents under evaluation accessed confidential Indian records without organisations detecting them.
17 - 10 - 2026
The Rs 3 lakh crore problem: Why are our states borrowing while sitting on cash piles?
Some valuable insights come from the Reserve Bank of India’s 2026 report of the Advisory Committee on Ways and Means Advances (WMA) that shines light on an often-overlooked aspect of the general public finance.
14 - 10 - 2026
India’s Semiconductor Self-Reliance Is Becoming a Defence Imperative: DRDO Scientist
At a Bengaluru DRDO event, Dr Anupam Sharma linked chip dependence to future military vulnerabilities, highlighting the need to connect India’s design talent with domestic manufacturing, materials and advanced electronics capabilities
13 - 10 - 2026
India’s SpaceTech Sector Faces a Commercialisation Test as Capital, Customers and Risk Shape Growth
As startups move beyond technology development, financing gaps, uncertain demand, procurement hurdles and liability concerns are emerging as critical determinants of which businesses can scale
10 - 10 - 2026
Why Incremental Reforms Will Not Save France
In the grand corridors of European finance, a once-unthinkable inversion is underway. France—long considered the political and economic co-anchor of the Eurozone alongside Germany—has seen its sovereign borrowing costs climb to levels historically reserved for the bloc’s southern periphery. As French benchmark 10-year OAT yields hit 4.91% and the spread over German Bunds expands past …
08 - 10 - 2026
Inside Indian Hospitals, AI’s Biggest Problem May Not Be the Technology
A Bengaluru roundtable of hospital executives, clinicians and health-tech founders found that adoption is being constrained less by what AI can do than by data quality, clinical evidence, workflow integration and the difficulty of proving returns
05 - 10 - 2026
How is India’s Long Road to Indigenous Aero-Engines Shaping Up
Reported 48.5 kN dry-thrust performance in Russian trials marks another step in GTRE’s effort to turn decades of Kaveri development into a viable propulsion technology for unmanned combat aircraft
04 - 10 - 2026
Google Puts Four AI Chips in Orbit as Project Suncatcher Tests the Case for Space-Based Computing
The prototype mission with Planet and SpaceX moves Google’s orbital data-centre concept from modelling and laboratory tests to an experiment in the real environment of space
04 - 10 - 2026
India’s Quantum-Safe Push Is Less About Q-Day Than the Race to Migrate
C-DOT’s expanding quantum-security portfolio signals that the next opportunity may lie not only in hardware, but in helping enterprises replace, manage and audit cryptography at scale
03 - 10 - 2026
From Kandla to the Global Space Supply Chain: INOXCVA’s Cryogenic Push Signals India’s Next Engineering Opportunity
The dispatch of a 1,500-cubic-metre cryogenic tank illustrates how Indian manufacturers are moving from component supply towards large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure for global aerospace markets