Author: Shivendra Saxena

New Delhi: A soldier in Ukraine picks up a quadcopter, checks its battery, and shakes his head. The war has taught the world an unglamorous truth: no battery, no drone. And without drones, the modern battlefield feels suddenly blind. That lesson hasn’t been lost in Washington. Inside the Pentagon, a team of officials is working quietly on something that might sound mundane but is anything but: a new strategy for batteries, due in early 2026. Batteries Become the New Ammunition You could say the U.S. military has always run on batteries, from radios on the frontlines to night-vision goggles in…

New Delhi: We used to think of privacy as a perimeter problem, walls and locks, permissions and policies. But the truth is, in 2025, the walls have crumbled. From semi-autonomous AI agents quietly reshaping our choices, to Russian hacker groups exploiting Microsoft vulnerabilities, to shadowy crypto exchanges laundering billions through rebranded facades, the issue is no longer simply data security. It is trust, what happens when we are not looking, and whether the systems we rely on act in our interest, or against it. It’s a theme that links three seemingly different stories of our times: the rise of agentic…

New Delhi: Anchorage, Alaska, isn’t usually where world leaders go to swap handshakes and strategic glares. But tomorrow, the snow-dusted runways of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson will see President Donald Trump welcome Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Air Force-Army hub has long been a watchtower against Moscow’s aircraft. Now it’s playing host to Moscow’s president. If walls could talk, the Cold War-era hangars might raise an eyebrow and mutter, “Well, this is different.” How to Host a Summit at the Edge of the Map The base’s past life reads like a military action novel, Soviet intercepts, Chinese flyovers, and plenty of…

New Delhi: If you were sipping your morning chai while watching the Independence Day parade, you might have missed it. Somewhere along the lines of the ceremonial salutes and the PM Modi speech, there was a quiet earthquake for India Inc. Ten announcements.  Each one has the potential to shift boardroom conversations and shopfloor realities in a matter of months. This wasn’t just another speech for the archives. You could say it was a policy playbook slipped into a patriotic moment. And the smart businesses? They’ll start moving on it yesterday. 01 PM Modi Simplifies compliance – finally, a breath…

New Delhi: It is one thing to stage a summit, another to let two showmen meet behind closed doors while entire nations wait outside. On Friday, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, President Donald Trump will sit alone with Vladimir Putin, in a meeting the White House calls a “listening exercise.” If you remember Helsinki 2018, when Mr. Trump left a private room, seeming dazzled by Mr. Putin and went on to cast doubt on U.S. intelligence about election interference, you know why Kyiv and Europe are already unclipping their seatbelts. 01. Helsinki left a bruise, not a lesson…

New Delhi: Some days in Delhi run like clockwork, others feel like the city’s moving in fast-forward. August 12, 2025, was one of those latter kinds. In the space of a few minutes, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) managed to rope in not one but two heavyweights, Hero MotoCorp and Zepto, to back India’s young startup brigade. This wasn’t the usual photo-op handshake. There was real talk of labs, supply chains, and even paid pilots. For a lot of early-stage founders, this is the sort of lifeline that can change the whole trajectory. Hero MotoCorp’s…

New Delhi: It starts innocently enough – maybe you tap your phone at the kirana store, or your cab app offers a surprise cashback loan. Nothing fancy. But behind that moment lies a massive transformation that’s quietly (and quickly) reshaping how money moves in India. We’re standing at a tipping point. A confluence of forces – Open Banking, APIs, evolving regulation, and an arms race in cybersecurity – is changing the face of Indian FinTech. Not gradually. Radically. It’s not every day that financial infrastructure gets reinvented from the ground up. But here we are. APIs, AI & The Rise…

Mumbai: A quiet revolution is brewing, above our skies and behind locked lab doors. One of the world’s most seasoned defense giants, Lockheed Martin, has set its sights on something both ambitious and eerily futuristic: a satellite that can track and kill a hypersonic missile in flight. And they want it up and tested by 2028. It’s not every day you hear talk of space-based interceptors outside science fiction, but the urgency isn’t imagined. Global military strategy is evolving fast, and the threats now move faster than ever. For Lockheed Martin, this isn’t about prestige; it’s survival in a defense…

USA: Donald Trump loves a headline. Whether it’s “greatest economy ever” or “jobs are through the roof,” he’s never short on superlatives. But here’s the thing, economic data isn’t known for playing along. Under the surface of all that swagger, the story of Trump’s early economic track record is a strange cocktail of strong GDP, sagging job creation, and some outright contradictions. You could call it a boom with a limp, or maybe just an illusion running on spin. GDP Growth: Strong… Then Strange Let’s not twist it, GDP growth in the second quarter did pick up. That’s the good…

India: If August were a startup pitch deck, India would already be oversubscribed. As the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem tightens its global grip, the first week of this month has offered more than just momentum; it has delivered milestones. From agent-led AI breakthroughs and strategic megadeals to small-town retail revolutions and international fund launches, India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is no longer just growing; it’s maturing. 1. Bhindi AI Raises $4M to End “AI Babysitting” Kicking off August with a resounding statement from Bengaluru, Bhindi AI secured a $4 million pre-seed round at a jaw-dropping $28 million valuation. The startup, backed by…