Carlyle Consortium 🇺🇸 set to take control of 🇮🇳 defence parts supplier Micropack with a ₹1,175 crore bet
Bengaluru-based Micropack is a leading manufacturer of printed circuit boards for defence, space, avionics, telecom, medical and industrial electronics, serving customers such as Isro, DRDO and Data Patterns,
Retd. Gen. Byran Fenton, who previously headed US Special Operations Command, will join the firm as an operating executive, the company said. 🤷🏼♂️
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This could actually be so huge
I hope they're successful but ill still be just as happy if they try and fail to reland successfully
Indian startups need not be afraid of failure, or taking risk.
Build, break, learn and fly again!
Officials say, many mid-level and top-level scientists are quitting ISRO due to "internal issues" and "work-related matters" which are widely known among the ISRO fraternity...
Ideally, Govt of India should find out what's wrong and fix that... Stopping quitters doesn't help!
Not worried about Carlyle's stake in Micropack. India has credible domestic PCB alternatives (Epitome, Fine-Line, Ascent, Sulakshana) if supply needs to shift.
The real question is access:
✅ Does this open a door into other sensitive programs Micropack touches ISRO, DRDO, missile guidance PCBs
✅ What IP/data visibility does a US-controlling stake get on classified-adjacent work
✅ Any FDI/security clearance conditions attached to the deal
In recent times, several mid and senior level scientists have left ISRO, and the response now appears to be tighter restrictions on those seeking to resign.
Retention cannot be built on restrictions. If you want to keep talented scientists, give them meaningful opportunities, greater autonomy, challenging programmes, and clear career prospects. Otherwise, let them move on.
The same principle applies across our strategic R&D ecosystem DRDO, HAL, NAL, and others.
India has an exceptional pool of scientific talent, but too often its potential is constrained by mediocre decision-making.
Technology is sovereignty. The sooner we recognise that, the better.
Semiconductors enthusiasts have rarely heard about this startup.
Meet Multi Nano Sense Technologies
It is one of the startups supported under the government's (DLI) Scheme.
The company is making MEMS-based sensor chips for industrial use cases.
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It's mid of July & still the land acquisition ain't completed yet.
The deadline given is of end of July'2026.
The delay will make things easier for SAIL to handover the Rs.30000cr to Durgapur Steel Plant.
Rourkela will suffer a big time loss for sure😑
ATHER Service support needs urgent attention.
A customer should not be asked to wait for 2 months for a replacement belt.
Is this a manufacturing and supply chain issue, or are we relying on imports even for something as basic as a belt?
#Ather#AtherEnergy#CustomerService #AfterSalesService #EV #ElectricVehicles
Utter rubbish-How can the commuter demand that TC speak with him in Marathi? The TC is doing his job & commuters have to show ticket instead of doing language dadagiri.
TC is a Central Govt employee & is on a transferable job. Commuter is on Rly property
Odisha has factories of all the top business houses in India-
1-TATA Steel
2-Vedanta
3-Aditya Birla-Hindalco
4-Adani Group
5-Jindal
6-Jindal(JSW)
But how many establishments like these e.g Medical, Skill Academy,School & Colleges etc Odisha has till date?
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The @indiannavy set up India’s most complex civil-military technology capture organisation in 1984- the Advanced
Technology Vessel Project (ATVP)- 90% of it driven by IN officers.
Today that orgn is a design hub for at least 5 submarine projects - if you don’t replicate this service-driven model in other services - we will forever be import-dependent. https://t.co/eeABfR1zLW
Fir that to happen you have to create a scenario where you have a shit tonne of satellites wanting to launch soon
Space has starlink and defencd to drive volume, China has defence to drive volume. Our defence forces are not going all in on satellites. Especially smaller ones likes the west have. Even if you make a 100 rockets what are you going to launch
Rockets won't exist without a satellite. Who's making or ordering those in India?
China and us space programs and even russias exist because their defence forces drive the demand.
India's space challenge isn't technology.
We reached Mars on our first attempt.
We landed near the lunar south pole.
We docked satellites in orbit.
The challenge is scale.
The next space race won't be won by the country with the smartest scientists.
It will be won by the country that can launch again next week.
Americans got the capabilities; they killed our market with it, and now the Chinese have achieved that as well.
“One of my friend started a coffee shop in Indiranagar. An MLA was offended when asked to pay the bill. He eventually paid. Later, a health inspector came & shut the shop!” - Mohandas Pai
Reality of a broken system..
Khalistani terrorists warned Hindus in Punjab of dire consequences for watching the Ramayan.
Severed cow heads were thrown outside temples, and Hindus were pulled off buses, identified by name, and shot dead.
Why does Satluj remain silent on the atrocities committed against Hindus by Khalistanis? @Anurragmishra explains.
On the debate sparked by ‘Satluj’, I see many people here asking “why Hindus have never managed to align themselves politically in Punjab?!”.
As a Punjabi Hindu I feel this is because we have never managed to see Sikhs as separate from us. We have never really understood why we have been targeted and killed by Khalistanis.
Disputes over state boundaries, river water sharing, language…were these kind of petty reasons enough to tear the blood bond that Punjabi Hindus and Sikhs shared for centuries and start a lame separatist movement?! Was it not obvious that the country’s only martial community was being weaponised against itself by vested interests?!
Is it fair to blame all Hindus for the heinous crimes of 1984 for which only one political party was responsible?!
Is it fair to bury the thousands of stories of violence and rape by Khalistanis before 1984?!
To me, the widening rift between Hindus and Sikhs is a source of personal anguish.
A Sikh brother once said to me, “Hindus and Sikhs are like a finger and its nail: They are inseparable.”
Praying that all Punjabis can see past their anger, something which they are prone to, to find love and brotherhood again, which they are known for.
🙏🏽🤍