Author: Sharad Natani
For seventy years, India’s grasslands carried only the whisper of a legend — the cheetah, the world’s fastest land animal, once the silent monarch of the plains. Declared extinct in 1952, its disappearance marked one of India’s deepest ecological wounds. But today, that silence has been replaced with the soft thud of paws. On October 1, 2025, Kuno National Park officially launched India’s first cheetah safari, opening its gates for visitors to witness a moment generations have waited for — the cheetah’s return home. A Story of Science, Patience, and Hope The comeback of the cheetah wasn’t born overnight. It…
India has taken a major leap in digital security with the launch of the “Curbing Cyber Frauds in Digital India” initiative — a nationwide effort to harness Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for detecting and preventing cybercrimes in real time. The programme, announced by the Government of India, comes at a time when cybercrime is rising at an alarming pace. According to official data from CERT-In, cyber fraud complaints have more than doubled — from 1.02 million in 2022 to 2.26 million in 2024. Authorities believe that AI-driven surveillance and early-warning systems could help stop financial frauds before…
In another move towards becoming India’s smartest and most citizen-friendly city, Gurugram has made history by launching the country’s first QR code-based traffic challan payment kiosk. The digital initiative is designed to make paying challans faster, contactless, and fully transparent—marking a bold step toward smarter urban governance. The innovative system, developed jointly by the Gurugram Police and the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) under a CSR initiative, was inaugurated at Ambience Mall by the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic). How the QR-Based Kiosk Works Motorists can easily check and pay their outstanding challans by entering their vehicle registration number on…
In a small hostel room in Bhubaneswar, two college students — Snehadeep Kumar from Durgapur and Mohit Kumar Nayak from Odisha — are quietly building something extraordinary: India’s first gamma-ray detecting CubeSat, a satellite that could one day rival NASA-level space tech. Their mission? To prove that space innovation doesn’t need billion-dollar budgets — just big dreams, local metal, and unstoppable passion. From Classroom Dreams to Space Reality Snehadeep’s fascination with space began when his father gifted him an encyclopedia in Class 1. “I was hooked,” he recalls. “Every science project I did after that revolved around space.” Years later,…
From Bihar’s dusty labour chowks to a digital platform empowering thousands — this is the story of Chandrashekhar Mandal, a man turning dreams into dignity. In 2020, while sipping coffee from his Delhi office balcony, Chandrashekhar Mandal witnessed a heartbreaking scene — daily wage workers huddling under trees and tea stalls to escape the rain, hoping someone would hire them for the day. That moment sparked a question that changed his life: “If white-collar workers have LinkedIn, why can’t daily wage labourers have their own platform?” Turning Empathy Into Innovation Hailing from Ami village in Darbhanga, Bihar, Chandrashekhar knew poverty…
In a landmark step toward technological self-reliance, the Indian government has successfully migrated over 1.2 million official email accounts — including those under the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) — from the National Informatics Centre (NIC) system to an indigenous platform developed by Zoho Corporation, a Tamil Nadu-based software company. A Swadeshi Tech Milestone The Union Ministry of Education announced that the transition marks a major milestone in India’s Digital Sovereignty and Atmanirbhar Bharat mission. “By embracing Zoho’s indigenous office productivity tools, we are taking a bold step in the Swadeshi movement—empowering India to lead with home-grown innovation, strengthen digital sovereignty,…