Kolkata's Under-River Metro Sees 2.4 Million Riders in 2 Months

DRDO & IIT Delhi Achieve 1km Quantum Secure Communication Test

India has marked a significant milestone in quantum technology with a successful demonstration of quantum entanglement-based secure communication, conducted by the DRDO-Industry-Academia Centre of Excellence (DIA-CoE) at IIT Delhi. The trial, achieved over a free-space optical link on the IIT Delhi campus, demonstrated secure quantum communication over a distance of more than one kilometre.  The experiment achieved a secure key rate of approximately 240 bits per second, with a quantum bit error rate of under 7%. This entanglement-assisted communication method represents a breakthroug..

TRAI Shares April 2025 Network Quality Results from Nine Cities

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has published the findings of its Independent Drive Tests (IDTs) conducted in April 2025. These tests covered nine cities and surrounding highway corridors across seven Licensed Service Areas (LSAs), including Palakkad, Varanasi, Delhi (city and highway), Cuttack, Jodhpur, Patna, Gangtok, and Pakyong.  These assessments form part of TRAI’s routine Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring to evaluate real-time performance of mobile networks. The drive tests were carried out using standardised protocols and calibrated equipment under direct..

TRAI Starts Digital Consent Pilot with RBI and Leading Banks

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has noted that many spam-related complaints from consumers are directed at businesses they have previously engaged with for goods or services. When investigated, these businesses often claim they hold the consumer’s consent for sending commercial messages or making calls.  Under the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations (TCCCPR), 2018, commercial communications can be made to consumers, even if they are on the Do Not Disturb (DND) list, as long as the sender has obtained explicit consent. However, in many ..