One Indian Sailor has died due to last night Iranian Attack on 2 UAE Flagged Super Tanker

#ForeignAffairs

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) inaugurated the first Global Orbit Summit 2026 in New Delhi under the theme “From GCCs to Global Leadership”, aiming to strengthen India’s role as a hub for Global Capability Centres (GCCs).

The summit, hosted by ICAI’s Northern Indian Regional Council, brought together leaders to discuss finance innovation, AI, ESG, governance, cybersecurity, taxation, and workforce management, highlighting India’s 2.36 million professionals driving nearly USD 100 billion in GCC business, with future editions planned in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Pune, and Chennai.

#IT

Global Private Equity Debuts in Indian Military Tech

Carlyle, along with co-investors Yali Capital and Florintree’s Mathew Cyriac, is acquiring a 60% stake in Bengaluru-based Micropack, a leading printed circuit boards (PCBs) manufacturers for clients such as ISRO, DRDO, and Data Patterns, serving #Defence, #Avation, avionics, #telecom, and industrial #electronics, with defence and avionics as its core segments, for ₹1,175 crore ($125 million).

HEX20 Technopark-based successfully launched its Kinetic Optical Yaw Observer (KOYO) for Central University of Taiwan via SpaceX Transporter-17 last week.

Six upcoming missions include: NILA III (CubeSat for OhmSpace’s propulsion system); SAISI (ship ID satellite for NCU); COSPAR-1 (space weather satellite with COSPAR); a lander module for the Emirates asteroid belt mission; and HEX20’s own MAYA-V1 and DINK-N1.

#Space

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Iran Deputy Commissioner summoned by India over killing of Indian seafarer off Oman coast. #ForeignAffairs

Is it the DJ's turn to be beaten up now? #IndianSubcontinent

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India commits fresh aid to Palestine, says S Jaishankar

"We have just yesterday committed to setting up a specialty hospital, an artificial limb fitment center and a vocational training institute for Palestine at the Palestine donor group meeting in Brussels." #ForeignAffairs

🚨 CIA just admitted Bitcoin is their surveillance tool!

CIA General Counsel Michael Ellis: “Bitcoin isn’t truly anonymous… it’s a TOOL we use for intel gathering.”

The Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) is examining a reported cyber breach at Tata Electronics, an Apple supplier, but both Tata and Apple, along with Cert-In, confirmed no substantial data was leaked, leaving the companies unconcerned about the issue. #Tech #Cybersecurity

SEMI FINAL SHOWDOWN TONIGHT

🇫🇷 FRANCE vs 🇪🇸 SPAIN

Venue: Dallas Stadium, Arlington, USA 🇺🇸
Time: 12:30 AM (IST)

#FIFAWC2026

Interesting Stats about the Upcoming Semi Final Fixture of the #FIFAWC2026

1. For the first time ever in World Cup History all Top 4 FIFA ranked teams have Qualified for the Semi-Finals.

1. 🇫🇷 2. 🇦🇷 3. 🇪🇸 4. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿


2. 🇫🇷 France which has scored the most Goal in this World Cup, 18 in total who will face 🇪🇸 Spain, the team which has conceded the least Goal in the WC, only ONE

2. Lionel Messi will face 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England for the very first time in his World Cup Career. He has featured in 6 WC since 2006, but surprisingly the last encounter between Argentina and England was in the 2002 WC.

India has invited private defense companies to join an indigenous stratospheric airship program led by the Indian Air Force to develop Airship-based High Altitude Pseudo Satellites-AS-HAPS. These platforms will operate above 20 km to provide long-endurance surveillance and intelligence, bridging the gap between drones and low-Earth orbit satellites, with the government funding up to 70% of costs to boost private sector participation. #Defence

ISRO has successfully conducted three critical tests for the Gaganyaan mission, validating the crew module’s safety systems: the upright float system for stable sea splashdown, the umbilical separation from the service module, and the apex cover separation ensuring parachute deployment. These milestones mark key progress in India’s human spaceflight program. #Space #ISRO

India and Japan held the 8th Defence Policy Dialogue in Tokyo and agreed to deepen cooperation in emerging areas including defence industrial collaboration, technology, cyber security, and space, amid evolving Indo-Pacific security dynamics.

Led by India’s Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh and Japan’s Vice Minister Kano Koji, both sides reviewed military exchanges, maritime cooperation, and equipment collaboration while reaffirming commitment to a free, open, and rules-based Indo-Pacific. #ForeignAffairs

US-based Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE) refuted BARC’s safety concerns over using its thorium-based ANEEL fuel in India’s existing PHWRs, saying it improves safety without needing reactor design changes and is a “plug-and-play” replacement for natural uranium.

CCTE’s paper countered a BARC study that claimed ANEEL would require redesigns and raise accident risks, while also highlighting plans to deploy ANEEL in India’s PHWR fleet, which accounts for most of the country’s operational nuclear reactors, in December 2024, state-owned NTPC and CCTE announced a partnership to explore ANEEL development in India with plans for local manufacturing and uranium supply with sovereign guarantee. #Nuclear

Context

NTPC's 2024 partnership with Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE) to deploy ANEEL fuel in PHWRs faces intense opposition from India’s nuclear establishment, including the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and BARC, who prioritize a protected three-stage homegrown technology pathway. While NTPC seeks immediate economic benefits and higher fuel efficiency to lower LCOE, the DAE argues the imported technology risks safety, leading to a clash between commercial fast-tracking and domestic strategic interests. Following technical pushback in early 2026, CCTE validated its fuel's safety through Idaho National Laboratory testing and an MIT-backed study, challenging the regulatory assumptions of the Indian establishment.

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"PM Modi is well known world statesman..Prez Putin pays attention to what PM Modi says. PM can extert pressure", says Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister W. T. Bartoszewski on India's role in Russia Ukraine war

#geopolitics #internationalnews

53% NDA Voters Against E20, 50% Fear Vehicle Damage: C-Voter Survey #Policy

https://t.co/fV3R2uwQWD

West Bengal government transferred 1,024.75 acres across nine districts to the BSF to secure 172.6 km of the India-Bangladesh border.

Full district-wise breakdown of the fencing initiative includes:

Murshidabad: 45.4 km (337 acres)
North 24 Parganas: 42.07 km (241.03 acres)
Cooch Behar: 39.39 km (135.33 acres)
Malda: 20.15 km (176.78 acres)
Nadia: 14.79 km (95.11 acres)
Dakshin Dinajpur: 7.75 km (26.41 acres)
Darjeeling: 1.45 km (4.31 acres)
Uttar Dinajpur: 1.28 km (6.61 acres)
Jalpaiguri: 0.31 km (2.17 acres)

#NationalSecurity