@manish_bhave GE hiking prices of engines (after considerable delay)
Arming, financing and engaging with our neighbour.
Needling our prominent businessmen.
Tariff hikes.
List is endless, and none of this spells
Friendship, strategic or otherwise.
This is brilliant! 🔥
Inspired by Nitin Gadkari, dairy farmers in Jaipur have introduced M0, M50 and M100 milk.
M100 milk is best for health and can even be consumed by lactose intolerant people. Because it is pure water! 🤣
IIT Bombay Students Build DIY Chip-Making Lab in 10 Months
Starting in August 2025, the team built HackerFab—a lithography system, tube furnace, and plasma sputter—producing their first devices by June 2026. This open-source project addresses India's need for hands-on chip skills amid the government's ₹1.64 lakh crore Semiconductor Mission, which funds fabs but lacks trained technicians. Shared on GitHub and Discord, it invites replications to train thousands of students as the industry grows.
Cost : Rs 30 lakhs
Impact: Invaluable
1870 The Sir Cowasji Jehangir Ophthalmic Hospital, Bombay (Mumbai). This splendid Gothic building was opened for patients on the 21st of July 1866. It originally accommodated 28 male and 12 female patients. The bulk of the operations performed here were cataract operations.
Funded by prominent Parsi philanthropist Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, this facility was designed in the Secular Gothic architectural style and remains an active ophthalmology centre. It was integrated as an independent building within the larger Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals campus located in the Byculla and Mazagon areas of Mumbai.
The hospital laid the foundation for specialized, organized eye care in British India. Prominent ophthalmologists, such as Dr. Jamshedji Duggan, served and studied there before rising to international acclaim. More than 155 years after its founding, the historic architectural structure continues to operate as an active ophthalmic department affiliated with Grant Medical College.
True to Victorian and Gothic healthcare design, the structure features symmetrical layouts, pointed archways, and airy, cross-ventilated wards designed to maximize air circulation in Mumbai's humid climate. While many additions have been made to the campus over the years, the core heritage building retains its graceful, classic British India aesthetic. #Mumbai #hospital #history
Can a Chennai startup build an eVTOL (Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing) for 1/10th the cost of global rivals?
India's electric aviation sector has reached a significant milestone.
IIT Madras-incubated electric aircraft start-up @ePlaneCompany has completed assembly of the e200X, its first full-scale electric aircraft prototype, moving the programme from design and simulation into physical testing.
Why this matters?
🛩️A completed full-scale aircraft is the point where an aviation programme proves it can manufacture, integrate and test an aircraft beyond simulations.
🛩️The e200X will now enter ground testing, followed by flight testing and Type Certification activities.
🛩️The aircraft's major systems, including the airframe, propellers, landing gear and battery pack, have been developed in-house in India.
🛩️The same platform has been designed to serve three markets: air ambulance first, followed by urban cargo and then passenger air taxi.
The company has reached this stage on roughly 21 million US dollars raised to date, a fraction
of what many international eVTOL programmes have consumed. Capital-efficient engineering is
central to ePlane’s strategy.