New cement mortar blocks developed by IIT Guwahati using waste marble and nano iron-slag can block harmful X-ray and gamma radiation more effectively, offering a low-cost material for hospitals and nuclear facilities while recycling industrial waste. #Research #aatmarnirbharbharat #Infra

https://t.co/aIrUub9Rw1

India unlikely to join naval coalition to secure Hormuz: Sources

India to rely on its own efforts to secure oil through Hormuz; officials say Indian Navy will secure only Indian-flagged vessels under Op Sankalp. #Geopolitics

Delhi #Metro : Thieves steal 1 km of Signalling Cable on Magenta line just 4 days after opening

World has 8 Important Choke Points

The Biggest of all "Strait of Malacca"

#InternationalNews

Netanyahu posts a video of himself on his X account, trying to debunk the rumours of his death. But the video appears to be AI-generated.

1. The coffee cup, which was filled to the brim, did not spill when he lifted it.
2. Even after he took a big sip from the coffee, the cup was still full to the brim.
3. Most AI moderation sites call it AI generated. #InternationalNews

https://x.com/i/status/2033190035764232360

Thoothukudi & South TN on the cusp of its biggest transformation!!
🔹 🇰🇷HD Hyundai to go solo for it's $4 Billion shipbuilding plant
🔹To produce 3.5 to 4 million gross tonnage (GT). GOI had planned a total of 4 across 4 clusters in India earlier - Huge Huge cluster in making🤯
🔹4,000 Crs for dredging
🔹SPV with Thoothukudi VoC port & Sipcot formed
🔹GOI funding to come, incentives form GOI and TN Govt
🔹HD Hyundai plans to bring it's complete vendor ecosystem to Thoothukudi
🔹POSCO in talks to setup a dedicated steel plant
🔹HD Hyundai to make cranes here too
🔹To come up over 3,000 acres land.

#Ports #Infra
Detailed Link 🔗 :
https://infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/ports-shipping/hd-hyundais-ambitious-4-billion-shipyard-project-in-tamil-nadu/129586239

#MustWatch video of Gen. Raj Shukla (Retd.) at India Today conclave.

Wars are not won by the lowest bidder. If the national security paradigm has moved to H1 (highest capability), continuing with L1 (lowest cost) is a strategic contradiction. #Defence #Policy #Reforms

"How can you make AMCA when you churn out ads that say AMCA engineers would get 65 thousand rupees?"

Love to see the points being made we pointed out last year 👇

https://t.me/DevelopmentNewsIndia/38811

#Defence #Research #Reforms

#Oil #Energy

🇮🇳🤝🇮🇷 Jaishankar talks with FT, hails talks with Iran to clear Strait of Hormuz. #Geopolitics #ForeignAffairs

https://www.ft.com/content/c8ef2abd-964d-4b8a-8dab-3a7a25055f53

🇮🇶⚡️Fire at US Victoria Base in Baghdad, Iraq, after rockets struck the Camp. Reports of Injury

After France, Japan and Australia have also refused to send Warships to escort Ships in Strait of Hormuz #InternationalNews

SM is full of thorium dumping stories, No one is dumping thorium, As a sensible citizen, let us stop spreading/falling for rumors based on misleading headlines & instead look at the verified facts.

India is currently in the middle of a multi-decade Chemical Chess Match that the rest of the world has largely given up on. While the US & Europe abandoned thorium in the 1970s in favor of uranium (which was easier to weaponize), India has stayed obsessively committed.

India has < 1% of the world's uranium but ~25% of the world's thorium (mostly in the monazite sands of Kerala & Odisha). Thorium is not fissile. We cannot just put it in a reactor & start a fire. It is fertile. It is like wet wood; we need a starter (Uranium/Plutonium) to turn it into U-233, which then provides the energy.

India's 3 Stage Nuclear Power Programme (designed by Homi J. Bhabha) is a slow-burn strategy. We are currently transitioning from Stage 1 (Uranium) to Stage 2 (Plutonium Breeders). We need Stage 2 to build enough starter fuel to finally unlock the thorium in Stage 3.

As of early 2026, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam is the most watched nuclear site in the world. This reactor is the bridge to the Thorium Age. It breeds more fuel than it consumes.

Once the PFBR stabilizes, India will begin loading the Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR), which is specifically designed to use thorium.

#GreenEnergy

🇦🇪⚡Iranian drones attacked a fuel depot at Dubai International Airport in the UAE

Election Commission of India removed West Bengal Chief Secretary and Home Secretary just hours, late night yesterday after Model Code of Conduct (MCC) came into force #Policy

US Commission on International Religious Freedom

"America should sanction RSS and the R&AW."

PS - USCISF is a bipartisan Commission formed under International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), 1998. It works under the State Department of Federal Government.

Members are appointed by President, US House Speaker & Minority Leader.

#Geopolitics

ECI has asked WB DGP to provide a list of Police officers, including Station officers and their Senior officials, who were on duty during the post-poll violence in 2021. #Policy