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Skyroot's Vikram-1 Reaches Orbit, India's First Private Orbital Rocket Launch Skyroot Aerospace launched Vikram-1 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on July 18, 2026, with the upper stage reaching its planned 450-kilometer low Earth orbit 15 minutes after liftoff. The mission, called Aagaman, made Skyroot the first Indian private company to place a rocket into orbit on its maiden attempt, putting India among a small group of nations alongside the United… |
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Bengaluru's Vimag Labs Secures Fifth Patent for Rare-Earth-Free EV Motor Vimag Labs, a Bengaluru-based deep-tech startup, secured its fifth Indian patent on July 8 for an electric motor that operates without rare-earth permanent magnets, according to multiple industry reports. The patent, titled "A Robust Rotating Transformer Excited Synchronous Motor and Its Control," covers the core architecture of the company's Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM) platform,… |
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How Can You Get and Use an M2M IoT SIM Card in India? If you are working on IoT projects, you already know the importance of an M2M IoT SIM card for remote monitoring and tracking. For those who are new and wondering why you need a special M2M SIM card when you can just use your normal SIM card, here are two strong reasons to consider one. Cost: If you are running a… |
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Dhruva Space Gets ₹105 Crore Government Grant for Mass-Producible Satellites Hyderabad-based Dhruva Space has received INR 105 crores from the Government of India's Research, Development & Innovation Fund (RDIF) to develop Project Garud, a 500 kg-class communications satellite platform intended for constellation-scale deployment. The grant was formalised on 13 May 2026 in New Delhi, during the inaugural Enterprise Technology Evaluation agreement signing and first… |
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Hikvision and Dahua to Face Market Ban in India Over Chinese Chip Concerns Effective tomorrow, India will ban the sale of CCTV cameras that don’t conform to the Essential Requirements introduced by MeitY in April 2024. Major players, Hikvision and Dahua, have failed to meet the Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification standard. The government is reportedly not certifying cameras that run on Chinese-made chips. The broader goal appears to be to… |
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Mave Health Raises $2.1 Mn to Bring Brain Stimulation Headsets to Market Mave Health, a Bengaluru-based healthtech startup, raised $2.1 Mn in a seed round led by Blume Ventures. Founded in 2023 by Dhawal Jain, Jai Sharma, and Aman Kumar, the company makes headsets based on transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) that help with focus, mood, and stress regulation. The raised capital is to go towards ramping up their manufacturing capabilities and launching… |
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Jaipur-Based Agritech Startup Verdant Impact Raises $3M in Seed Round In a seed funding round led by Unicorn India Ventures, Verdant Impact raised $3 million, which it intends to spend on scaling its team, breaking into the North and North-East Indian markets, integrating blockchain, and advancing its Pashu.AI platform. Infynyte Club, Yash Kotak, Alok Soni, and a-IDEA NAARM make up the other investors from the round. Verdant Impact is an agritech… |
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Micron Starts Chip Production in India Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a new Semiconductor Assembly, Test and Packaging (ATMP) facility of Micron Technology in Sanand, Gujarat. This marks the start of commercial production and shipment of the first made-in-India semiconductor memory modules from the plant. The Prime Minister said this is an important step in India’s journey to become a global technology leader. He… |
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Kochi-Based EyeROV Announces Tunnel Survey Completion at 4,000 Feet on the Heels of ₹13 Crore Raise EyeROV, an underwater robotics startup, has completed what it claims is “one of the longest tunnel surveys in North India, marking an important step forward for advanced tunnel inspection and monitoring in the country.” According to EyeROV, the tunnel leakage monitoring was notable for being carried out at an altitude of around 4,000 feet above sea level. The announcement further stated… |
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ASML Equipment to Be Part of India’s Upcoming Fabrication Facility in Dholera On the 23rd of January 2026, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, visited the headquarters of Dutch lithography systems provider ASML in Veldhoven. He said, “Our fab in Dholera will be using ASML equipment. So I have come here to visit and understand their technology.” ASML supplies technology to the semiconductor industry that is used to… |
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ROHM and Tata Electronics Form Semiconductor Manufacturing Alliance ROHM and Tata Electronics have announced the formation of a strategic partnership for semiconductor manufacturing. Initially, the broader emphasis will be on implementing a manufacturing framework for power semiconductors. While the partnership takes form in India, the companies aim to serve both Indian and global markets through it. Eyeing mass production by next year, the first plan… |
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DHRUV64 Debuts as India’s First Indigenous 1.0 GHz 64-bit Dual-Core Processor India has marked an important step in its semiconductor roadmap with the launch of DHRUV64, the country’s first fully indigenous 1.0 GHz, 64-bit dual-core microprocessor. Developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) under the Microprocessor Development Programme, DHRUV64 is designed to serve both strategic and commercial needs. The processor is part of India’s broader… |
