Defence Ministry greenlights purchase of 15 maritime aircraft

India Opens First 3nm Chip Design Centre

Union Minister for Electronics & IT, Railways, and Information & Broadcasting, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, today inaugurated two advanced semiconductor design facilities of Renesas Electronics India Private Limited, located in Noida and Bengaluru. Marking a milestone in India's semiconductor journey, the Minister announced that these centres include the country’s first-ever facility dedicated to designing next-generation 3 nanometre (nm) chips.“Designing at 3nm is truly cutting-edge. India has already worked on 7nm and 5nm nodes, but this takes us into a new league,” said Shri Vaishna..

Centre Backs Goa’s 24x7 Urban Water Plan

The Hon’ble Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, Shri Manohar Lal, held a high-level review meeting in Panaji with the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Goa, Shri Pramod Sawant, and Urban Development Minister Shri Vishwajit Rane to assess the progress of key urban infrastructure projects and flagship schemes under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).The review covered urban initiatives including AMRUT & AMRUT 2.0, Smart Cities Mission (SCM), Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban (PMAY-U & 2.0), Swachh Bharat Mission – Urban (SBM-U & 2.0), Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - ..

C-DOT and Synergy Quantum Partner on Secure Quantum Drones

In a major step towards advancing India’s capabilities in quantum-secure communication, the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the leading telecom R&D institution under the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Synergy Quantum India Private Limited, a deep-tech company specialising in quantum technologies.The MoU establishes a collaboration for developing drone-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) systems using the decoy-based BB84 protocol with polarisation encoding, at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 or higher. This pa..