Month: August 2025

India’s logistics cost will be down to less than 10% by December: Gadkari

August 3, 2025 admin

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari addressing at a programme in Mangalagiri on August 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari on Saturday (August 2, 2025) expressed confidence that India’s cost of logistics would come down to less than 10% by the end of December. The lesser the…

Business

Bird deaths raise red flags as India expands wind energy

August 3, 2025 admin

In the first half of 2025, India added around 3.5 GW to the wind sector – an 82% year-on-year growth – taking the total installed capacity to 51.3 GW. Even so, India’s wind power remains largely untapped. According to the National Institute of Wind Energy, India’s gross wind power potential is 1163.9 GW at 150…

Science

Simpler tests could slash biosimilar costs, widen patient access

August 2, 2025 admin

A supervisor inspects pre-filled syringes of a biosimilar of Adalimumab at a Zydus Group facility in Changodar, Gujarat, 2014. The biosimilar is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. | Photo Credit: AFP Most of the drugs that we consume are called ‘small molecule drugs’. Their chemical structure is reasonably simple. Disprin, for instance, has a molecular…

Science

How will Trump’s tariffs impact India? | Explained

August 2, 2025 admin

The story so far: On July 30, U.S. President Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs on imports from India “plus a penalty”. While this puts to rest months of speculation over what the tariffs would be on Indian imports into the U.S., it opens up fresh uncertainties with respect to a potential bilateral trade agreement between…

Business

India will continue to buy Russian oil despite Trump’s threats, government sources tell NYT

August 2, 2025 admin

Representational image of a n Indian Oil fuel station in Sonipat. | Photo Credit: Reuters India will keep purchasing oil from Russia despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of penalties, two Government sources told The New York Times, not wishing to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter. “These are long-term oil contracts,”…

Business

The first undersea voyage to the North Pole

August 2, 2025 admin

Search for power The concept of underwater transport is deeply embedded in human history. It wasn’t until the 17th Century, however, that the first practical submarine was built. And it was only during World War I that submarines became a huge factor in naval warfare. Even in the decades after World War I, the submarines…

Science

ED arrests MD of Biswal Tradelink in fake bank guarantee case

August 2, 2025 admin

Representational image of the Enforcement Directorate logo | Photo Credit: PTI The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Partha Sarathi Biswal, managing director of Biswal Tradelink Private Limited (BTPL), in connection with an alleged fake bank guarantee case. The arrest was made following searches in Bhubaneswar and Kolkata. The probe is based on a first information…

Business

Kothari Industrial Corporation acquires footwear brands Zodiz, Jeetlo

August 2, 2025 admin

A view of the Kothari Industrial Corporation Limited, Ennore in Chennai. File | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam Chennai-based Kothari Industrial Corporation Ltd. (KICL), the flagship company of the D.C. Kothari group, has acquired Zodiz, Jeetlo and other associated sub-brands in the footwear field. The acquisition of Zodiz, Jeetlo and associated sub-brands will come into…

Business

First LVM3 launch vehicle equipped with semi-cryogenic stage slated to fly in 2027

August 2, 2025 admin

ISRO Chairman V Narayanan in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. | Photo Credit: PTI The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is aiming for a 2027 launch for its first LVM3 launch vehicle equipped with a semi-cryogenic propulsion stage. “Right now we are on track. The power head tests (on the engine) are progressing with great success. Five…

Science

SpaceX delivers four astronauts to International Space Station just 15 hours after launch

August 2, 2025 admin

This image made from video provided by NASA and SpaceX shows from right in blue, Japan’s Kimiya Yui, NASA’s Zena Cardman, NASA’s Mike Fincke and Russia’s Oleg Platonov, with colleagues up there since March at the International Space Station during a welcome ceremony, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP SpaceX delivered a fresh…

Science