- India’s population (2023): 1.4 billion
- India’s online population: 881M / 62.6%
- India’s median age: 29.8 years
March 2025 ● February 2025 ● January 2025
tech: March 2025
- India: Reliance Jio telco is to introduce a cloud-based PC platform, alongside JioBrain AI services, likely to have major impact given the telco’s 460 million-plus subscribers / full item
- PwC India launches the Emerging Tech Startup Challenge – applications close May 5th / full item
- India is now exporting Apple components to China and Vietnam, illustrating the success of the government’s ‘Make In India’ initiative / full item
- India’s Paytm fintech app partners US AI firm, Perplexity, to integrate AI-powered search, giving ‘instant and reliable information on financial planning, market trends, and everyday queries’ / full item
- India: Micromax consumer electronics major launches ‘Startup Energy’, partnering China’s Jinchen to manufacture high-efficiency solar panels in India / full item
- India: Tech Mahindra IT services major rolls out a telco-focused LLM, targeting analysis of a range of data types, and scales, to aid firms with diagnostics and efficiency / full item
- India’s Jio Platforms partners AMD, Cisco and Nokia to develop telecom-industry AI platform / full item
- India: SpaceX unveils deals with India’s dominant telecom industry firms, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, with plans to roll out Starlink internet services across India / full item
- Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, partners Infibeam Avenues fintech firm to develop advanced, real-time deepfake detection systems / full item
- India: HN Technovations and RNJ Pvt Ltd partner to provide clean water and relief services in disaster areas of Northeast India using drones / full item
- India: Meesho e-commerce platform to IPO later this year, targeting near $1BN with successful business development in tier-4 and smaller rural towns / full item
- India: Elon Musk’s X platform sues Indian government over content removal in new censorship fight / full item
- ICYMI: In February, India raised the budget for the Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission to $2.32 billion, based on expanded task set which includes production of the nation’s space station / full item
- India and Starlink: “The cost disparity is a key factor. Globally, Starlink’s satellite internet plans range from $10 to $500 per month with an additional one-time hardware cost…” / full item
- India: SpaceX unveils deals with India’s dominant telecom industry firms, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, with plans to roll out Starlink internet services across India / full item
- Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, partners Infibeam Avenues fintech firm to develop advanced, real-time deepfake detection systems / full item
- India: Ministry of Railways green-lights a 40km hyperloop test track to assess feasibility for eventual large-scale hyperloop implementation nationwide / full item
- India: HN Technovations and RNJ Pvt Ltd partner to provide clean water and relief services in disaster areas of Northeast India using drones / full item
tech: February 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
tech: January 2025
- India successfully launched a navigation satellite aboard a domestically-produced rocket, boosting its independent satellite positioning system / full item
- 7 Indian privately-held startups chosen for first-of-its-kind India-US space and defence collaboration programme / full item
- India: ‘Bridging the Gap – Payments in India beyond Metros’ is available to download, a brief white paper from Visa / full item
- How is the $500bn Stargate Project poised to impact India’s AI landscape? …will pave the way for collaboration opportunities between the two countries especially on the talent front / full item
- India: Tata Electronics Pvt Ltd acquired a 60% stake in Pegatron Technology India, building on acquisition of Wistron India and boosting iPhone manufacturing presence / full item
- India: Salam Kisan data-driven agri-tech inks MoU with Maharashtra government to expand drone manufacturing capacity, delivering women-focused drones-as-a-service initiatives / full item
- Here’s a brief look at the implications of India’s decision to allocate, rather than auction, satellite spectrum, a decision that introduces opportunities for firms including SpaceX / full item
- Download: ‘India’s AI Imperative – Building National Competencies in a New World Order’ from Observer Research Foundation / full item
- India: Jupiter ‘neobanking’ startup gains Reserve Bank authorization to offer digital wallet services to customers for national UPI payments, money transfers and more / full item
- India: Google partners India’s Varaha for 100,000 tons of carbon removal credits, achieved using Varaha to lock carbon in soil / full item
- India: Government of Uttar Pradesh and Google Cloud India launch Uttar Pradesh Open Network for Agriculture, aiming to provide millions of farmers with a comprehensive digital platform / full item
- India: OrbitAID raises $1.5M pre-seed funding for in-space demo of docking and refuelling operations, looking to expand facilities for on-orbit servicing operations / full item
- ICYMI: Last year, the Union Cabinet approved a $119M VC fund focused on the growth of India’s space sector, managed by the Indian Nat’l Space Promotion & Authorization Center, IN-SPACe / full item
- India: Pixxel, a Google-backed space-tech firm, successfully launched 3 of 6 hyperspectral imaging satellites aboard a SpaceX rocket / full item
- India completes Space Docking Experiment, SpaDeX, docking 2 spacecraft in orbit around 475 kilometers above the Earth, becoming the fourth country to achieve this / full item
- India’s Ministry of Electronics & IT has reportedly proposed giving manufacturers of some electronics components near $3BN in new support, alongside reduced tariffs on some / full item
- India’s UPI network ‘processes more than 13BN real-time transactions monthly… 71% of all transactions in [India] and accounts for 36% of all consumer spending in the country…’ / full item
- India: Taiwan’s MSI partners India’s Syrma SGS for laptop manufacturing in move to bring premium MSI laptops closer to end-consumers / full item
- “With significant investments and strategic policies, India appears poised to carve its niche in the global semiconductor landscape. But how realistic is the dream…” / full item
- India: Government publishes consultation draft of proposed Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, outlining compliance requirements and protections / full item
- India: More on the Indian Space Research Organisation Space Docking Experiment, SpaDeX, recently delivered to orbit for testing / full item
- India: Bharat Fintech Summit 2025 is set for February 5-6 in Mumbai / full item
- India: Accel VC firm launched its 8th fund, with $650M to back early-stage Indian startups in enterprise AI and service-as-software, capitalizing on India’s IT services footprint / full item
- Indian Space Research Org’n is planning 10 orbital launches in 2025, potentially taking launch activity to double figures for the first time; and a first crewed flight, H1, possibly in 2026 / full item
- Available now: ‘Indian Tech Startup Funding Report 2024’ from Inc42 Datalabs / full item
- India: In October, Sarla Aviation eVTOL aircraft firm inked agreement with Bengaluru International Airport for city-to-airport ‘flying taxi’ service / full item
- India: SEMI is planning an Indian Semiconductor Academy to further boost the country’s chip ambitions, looking to partner technical institutes and universities for curricula and training / full item
- India successfully launched the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in part to test docking tech needed for future space missions / full item
