India Space Economy

Zomato unveiled its crowd-supported real-time weather monitoring infrastructure on Wednesday. Dubbed Weather Union, the company said the system is first-of-its-kind in India and the largest private infrastructure in its space in the country. Announcing the platform, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal said that its API will be made free-to-access for all in...

India has made a quantum jump in the field of space in the last nine years, and efforts have been made to diversify the applications of space, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday.

Since the 1970s the island of Sriharikota has served as the country's Cape Canaveral, with the national space agency launching scores of spacecraft headed as far as the moon and Mars. But in November a new tenant appeared.

India is one of the very few countries that have built end-to-end capability in space technologies, Union Minister of State for Space Jitendra Singh said on Monday.

India is muscling in on the increasingly lucrative business of space, taking advantage of the geopolitical isolation of China and Russia to pitch itself as a reliable alternative to SpaceX.

Former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) AS Kiran Kumar on Tuesday said the global space economy would reach USD 1 trillion-mark in the coming years which would provide a huge opportunity for the country's youth.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be a game changer in the public audit space as it will help in quicker and more detailed analysis during both planning and execution stages, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) G C Murmu said on Tuesday.

Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Thursday that satellite communications are emerging as an important part of India's ambitions to scale up quality Internet access across the country. Satellite communications hold significant relevance, for the digital economy and India's growing clout in global technology landscape, he said.

Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that the new data protection bill will be "very simple and modern". He said the right to privacy and data protection are fundamental rights in India and the data protection bill will be very progressive in recognising and enshrining these rights. The new pers...

The government will soon unveil a new space policy to further increase private participation. This step could see the rise of India's own ‘SpaceX-like ventures’, state Principal Scientific Advisor Ajay Kumar Sood. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk in 2002, is a private space transportation company that designs, manufactures and launches advanced roc...

India is in the midst of a major transformation in the digital space, and a strong political leadership and the commitment to continue with radical reforms would play a key role in taking the country to a leadership role in the global economy, Niti A

Foreign crypto space is seeing a shortage of Indian faces because of the confusion of what’s allowed and what’s not allowed for crypto players in the nation. Talking to Gadgets 360, Unocoin chief Sathvik Viskwakarma said that the Indian crypto community will shine on the global map only after industry players get a nurturing backing from the go...

COP26 Climate Talks: India has asked developed nations that have "enjoyed the fruits of energy" to reach net zero faster so that emerging economies use some "carbon space" to drive growth.

The commercial vehicle space was one of the more badly affected segments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, with the gradual reopening of the economies the CV industry too started to recover. However experts believe real growth is still a bit far away.

Medium-term frameworks and better targeting will be key for building fiscal space and better confronting trade-offs such as providing support now and providing insurance against future emergencies.

Zomato unveiled its crowd-supported real-time weather monitoring infrastructure on Wednesday. Dubbed Weather Union, the company said the system is first-of-its-kind in India and the largest private infrastructure in its space in the country. Announcing the platform, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal said that its API will be made free-to-access for all in...

India has made a quantum jump in the field of space in the last nine years, and efforts have been made to diversify the applications of space, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday.

Since the 1970s the island of Sriharikota has served as the country's Cape Canaveral, with the national space agency launching scores of spacecraft headed as far as the moon and Mars. But in November a new tenant appeared.

India is one of the very few countries that have built end-to-end capability in space technologies, Union Minister of State for Space Jitendra Singh said on Monday.

India is muscling in on the increasingly lucrative business of space, taking advantage of the geopolitical isolation of China and Russia to pitch itself as a reliable alternative to SpaceX.

Former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) AS Kiran Kumar on Tuesday said the global space economy would reach USD 1 trillion-mark in the coming years which would provide a huge opportunity for the country's youth.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be a game changer in the public audit space as it will help in quicker and more detailed analysis during both planning and execution stages, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) G C Murmu said on Tuesday.

Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Thursday that satellite communications are emerging as an important part of India's ambitions to scale up quality Internet access across the country. Satellite communications hold significant relevance, for the digital economy and India's growing clout in global technology landscape, he said.

Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that the new data protection bill will be "very simple and modern". He said the right to privacy and data protection are fundamental rights in India and the data protection bill will be very progressive in recognising and enshrining these rights. The new pers...

The government will soon unveil a new space policy to further increase private participation. This step could see the rise of India's own ‘SpaceX-like ventures’, state Principal Scientific Advisor Ajay Kumar Sood. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk in 2002, is a private space transportation company that designs, manufactures and launches advanced roc...

India is in the midst of a major transformation in the digital space, and a strong political leadership and the commitment to continue with radical reforms would play a key role in taking the country to a leadership role in the global economy, Niti A

Foreign crypto space is seeing a shortage of Indian faces because of the confusion of what’s allowed and what’s not allowed for crypto players in the nation. Talking to Gadgets 360, Unocoin chief Sathvik Viskwakarma said that the Indian crypto community will shine on the global map only after industry players get a nurturing backing from the go...

COP26 Climate Talks: India has asked developed nations that have "enjoyed the fruits of energy" to reach net zero faster so that emerging economies use some "carbon space" to drive growth.

The commercial vehicle space was one of the more badly affected segments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, with the gradual reopening of the economies the CV industry too started to recover. However experts believe real growth is still a bit far away.

Medium-term frameworks and better targeting will be key for building fiscal space and better confronting trade-offs such as providing support now and providing insurance against future emergencies.