Drones for India’s defence; NVIDIA exec on India’s distinctive AI wants

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Ever for the reason that daybreak of the trendy period, people have puzzled how they may lengthen their lives on the planet. Nevertheless, it could be the planet that’s stopping them from hitting 200.

In line with a speculation by Deepinder Goyal’s science initiative Proceed Analysis, an enormous a part of human ageing is likely to be brain-first and gravity-driven, and never body-first.

The answer? Do 10-minute inversions every day, i.e. headstands.

For millionaire Bryan Johnson, it’s all however an experiment. The US tech entrepreneur has given up meat, and now has even pursued magic mushrooms in an try and defy loss of life. However he now believes the ‘complete factor has gotten uncontrolled.”

In the meantime, science is pointing in direction of multilingualism. A global group of neuroscientists have discovered that individuals who communicate two or extra languages seem shielded from accelerated ageing.

Ageing, actually, is a thriller.

In at present’s publication, we’ll speak about 

• From lecture rooms to the battlefield
• NVIDIA exec on India’s distinctive AI wants
• Inside Maharashtra’s single ladies sangathans

Right here’s your trivia for at present: What was the primary general-purpose bank card in India?

Startup

From lecture rooms to the battlefield

Within the dorm rooms of BITS Pilani, the place startups like Pixxel took flight, Ahmad Faraaz, Sashakt Tripathi, and Harshit Awasthi based Kalam Labs in 2018. What started as a gamified edtech platform instructing kids about house has now developed right into a deeptech enterprise redefining India’s defence capabilities. 

“Our transition was in doing the sting of house mission with Hrithik Roshan (as a part of promotions for his movie Fighter) on January 26, 2024, the place we unfurled the Indian flag in house. That made it clear to us that we needed to do greater than educate,” Faraaz tells YourStory. 

Nationwide curiosity:

• The spacetech startup’s first mission was with the India Meteorological Division (IMD) in March 2025. “We assisted them by constructing our UAV that was hooked up to the balloon together with the climate module,” he shares.
• Kalam Labs’ drones are at present deployed at Pokhran and alongside the Indo-China Line of Management. Its key fashions embrace the Stratospheric ISR UAV for surveillance, the Stratospheric Retrievable Radiosonde for climate monitoring, and ⁠the Stratospheric Kamikaze UAV Swarm at present in ultimate testing.
• The corporate is additional engaged on manoeuvrable airships for dynamic surveillance and real-time mapping of terrains. Faraaz says his startup is in discussions with the Indian Navy for potential collaboration. 

TechSparks

NVIDIA exec on India’s distinctive AI wants

India stands at an uncommon intersection within the international AI panorama. Jigar Halani, Director of Resolution Architect and Engineering, NVIDIA, believes the constraints in India’s AI trajectory lie not in a scarcity of expertise or manpower however within the demand for a uniquely Indian method to constructing and deploying AI programs.

“The structure must be sorted out. It ought to be so pervasive that it ought to work all over the place. It ought to be constructed with that resilience in play. The ROI issues, and what the know-how curve that’s futuristically going to come back in, all these items should be catered to it basically,” he mentioned at TechSparks 2025.

A really Indian AI:

• Effectivity is a significant driver. The infrastructure should be sturdy sufficient to assist lots of of hundreds of thousands of concurrent customers, as a result of downtime has an outsized impression in a rustic as massive as India.
• Jigar emphasised that information curation types the true spine of any significant system. Fashions skilled solely on publicly scraped information stay generalists and can’t meet the extent of precision that actual organisations require.
• He additional famous, “See what’s the quickest route I could make it attain. That simply runs on one GPU for the entire of the US for your entire pizza supply all through the day.” This demonstrates not solely effectivity but additionally the maturity of sensible AI deployments.

Social Affect

Inside Maharashtra’s single ladies sangathans

Ekal Mahila Sangathan, a collective of single ladies, helps widowed, abandoned and single ladies entry rights and state assist. The collective additionally permits ladies in Maharashtra affected by farmer suicides to develop into anganwadi employees via regular encouragement, sharing data, and constructing the boldness to navigate troublesome bureaucratic programs.

As one girl from the collective places it: “What’s household—the one you might be born into or the group you reside with? When I’m combating one thing, private or bureaucratic, ten or twelve ladies present up inside minutes. That’s what empowerment appears to be like like.”

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What was the primary general-purpose bank card in India?

Reply: CentralCard, launched by the Central Financial institution in 1981.

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