India’s population (2023): 1.4 billion
India’s online population: 881M / 62.6%
India’s median age: 29.8 years
ORF: A New EU-India Strategic Agenda in 2025
- India and US recently unveiled the Autonomous Systems Industry Alliance defence initiative, focusing particularly on underwater domain awareness / full item
- India: Ministry of Electronics & Info Tech rolls out continuous competitive empanelment for AI cloud service providers under the IndiaAI Mission, allowing firms to apply at any time / full item
- Indian Computer Emergency Response Team analysis of 20 ‘smart cities’ finds widespread cyber issues including malware infections, botnet attacks, and misconfigurations / full item
- India’s electric aircraft startup, ePlane Company, lands collaboration with Dubai’s Empire Aviation Group to integrate business electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing solutions / full item
India: “…the government received 526 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) applications from Chinese investors, of which 124 were approved, 201 were rejected, and 200 remain pending.” / full item
- India’s first ‘Made-in-India’ semiconductor chip is expected to be launched by September or October this year, jointly developed by Tata Electronics and Taiwan’s PSMC / full item
- Indian Nat’l Space Promotion & Authorisation Centre, IN-SPACe, has launched a $57.58M fund to help early-stage space technologies commercialize and reduce reliance on imports / full item
- 2025 India Space Congress is set for June, running with the theme of ‘Pioneering Innovations in Space Technology – India’s Journey towards Global Partnerships’ / full item
- India-Australia Space collaboration is set to grow with the PRISM 2 initiative, building on a range of similar space-focused partnerships / full item
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‣ Critical technologies report – February 2025
- Nearly 2,000 Indians are at present involved in cyber scam operations in Myawaddy…near the Myanmar-Thailand border… Many were reportedly duped by fake job offers… / full item
- India: Government orders a block on 119 apps on Google Play Store, citing concerns in line with the Information Technology Act, with the majority from China and Hong Kong developers / full item
- India: A quick intro to Startup Singam, Tamil Nadu’s first startup-focused reality TV show / full item
- India: NTPC power company is looking to build 30GW of nuclear power capacity over the next two decades, 3 times more than initially planned, at a cost of $62BN / full item
- India: “…we have agreed on TRUST, i.e. Transforming Relationship Utilizing Strategic Technology. Under this, emphasis will be laid on creating strong supply chains of critical minerals…” / full item
- India: US chips toolmaker, Lam Research, is to invest over $1.2BN in Karnataka state, with the nation targeting semiconductor market value of $63BN by 2026 / full item
CSEP India: Thinking about India’s Future
- India should aim at $500 billion in electronics manufacturing by 2030′ says think tank report / full item
- India: Nibe Ltd space firm gains BlackSky partnership for satellite imagery, analytics, and hi-res optical sat in move toward a sovereign, remote-sensing constellation / full item
- India: Google and Oracle look to the IndiaAI project, seeing possible participation with Google’s Tensor Processing Units and Oracle computing infrastructure / full item
- India: Invest Karnataka 2025 preps to present the state as an investment destination for aerospace, renewable energy, electronics, semiconductors, and advanced manufacturing / full item
- India: Suchi Semicon firm is to establish an Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly & Test – OSAT – facility in Surat, locating near to Micron, Tata Electronics, and Kaynes Semicon facilities / full item
- India: A brief overview of the impressive growth of the country’s startup and innovation ecosystems, and programs / full item
- India cuts import tax on smartphone parts: “The cuts will help India better cope with a potentially disruptive year of global trade due to US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats.” / full item
- The global floating solar energy market is set to be dominated by the Asia-Pacific region, led by India, China, and Indonesia through to 2033 / full item
Maldives: Indian Ocean Security and the US Indo-Pacific Strategy
- India: Gallabox raises $3.5M with platform enabling SMEs to use AI to automate company communication on WhatsApp / full item
- India: New $1.15BN ‘Fund of Funds’ for startups is to be established, adding to and expanding on existing startup development programs / full item
- India: Recently-launched NVS-02 navigation satellite is stranded in a transfer orbit following failure of onboard propulsion, possibly to result in an unplanned re-entry to atmosphere / full item
- India: MetaShot gaming startup raises $1.2M with ‘smart bat’, allowing players to translate real-world cricket shots into web-game actions / full item
- India: Satellite successfully launches and enters orbit, forming part of the Navigation with Indian Constellation – NavIC – positioning system, a domestic alternative to GPS et al / full item
- ICYMI: Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot app is soon to be available for Android users, with pre-registration for testing available in Australia, Canada, India, The Philippines, and Saudi Arabia / full item
Critical tech news: February 2025
- Vodafone claims world-first satellite video call from a regular phone, partnering Starlink rival, AST SpaceMobile, for a direct-to-smartphone service set to launch in Europe…
- Shares in direct-to-mobile satellite firms drop after Apple enables iPhones with a T-Mobile cellular plan to join beta tests for SpaceX Starlink service in the US…
- Countries Draw Battle Lines Ahead of ‘European Launch Challenge’…
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