India will build its own Starlink. The main controlling bottleneck is rockets not the satellite itself. That’s what we are solving.

I reiterate this point. Speeds may fluctuate, but they are at par with most Western countries. Remote areas being able to access high speed internet isn't a good enough case for Starlink, when the ability to launch our own LEO satellites at a high cadence is being developed.

Musk’s reference to “oligarchs” re Starlink reminds me of similar statements made by Bessent, Lutnick and Navarro on Indian businesses and “private profits” (on Ru Oil) at the height of trade disagreements last Sept. US cos replicating tactics used by USG in trade negotiations.

There is a low impact, minimal use case for Starlink in India. Quite revealing that Musk is pushing so hard for it.

🚨 𝗚𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗮𝗮𝗻-𝗚𝟭 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝟮 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀! 🚀 ISRO has finally completed the long pending integration work & testing of the Crew Module for the first uncrewed orbital flight of Gaganyaan, and its launch on board the first human-rated LVM3 (HLVM3) rocket is now expected to take place within 1 month after the launch of the GSLV-F18 / NVS-03 mission - which itself is expected in mid-October to early-November!

It's incredibly classy of Modi govt to remember Shinzo Abe and continue to engage his wife long after his death There is no political or material gain from doing this, Abe has been dead for 4 years This tells you the kind of bond Modi-Abe had formed during their tenure

Dixon has signed a 60:40 JV with Gemtek (Taiwan) to manufacture optical connectivity products in India. They will manufacture Optical Transceivers and BOSA (Bidirectional Optical Subassembly) which should cater to data centers and any networking applications that utilize high speed optical modules. manufacturing.economictimes.…

BREAKING: European Parliament significantly toughens China position, adopted by landslide FOR 454 AGAINST 86 ABSTAIN 110 Report says China is “decisive enabler” of Russia & backs a “continuous [European] naval presence and joint exercises” in and around the Taiwan Strait

What hurts is we have been unable to capture a large share of exports for commodities where China's share is declining and will continue to decline.

YIL 155mm shell manufacturing:

Any self respecting country / govt would have given Kalyani forge $5-6 bn in orders, taken a small position in the company, funded it's R&D to a certain extent and champion them in every deal possible with every single country that's on the market for arty systems. What does Modiji do? Buy Korean crap and ignores Kalyani forge. Maybe if Adani acquired Kalyani forge the orders might flow?

I feel Modi largely failed to percolate his policy nous as a CM to the underlings at the state level after he became PM. Rarely see any BJP ruled state replicate his success as a CM. Perhaps because political victories have been deemed more important in the long term.

18 months. 7 GW. One massive factory. From an investment commitment to full-scale production in just 18 months. I’m proud to present glimpses of Premier Energies’ 7 GW solar cell manufacturing facility at Naidupeta - India’s largest. This is how Andhra Pradesh rolls: less talk, more build. Fast approvals. Faster execution. Real factories. Real jobs. Speed of Doing Business - now in production. #ChooseSpeedChooseAP

For anything to do with building a supply chain, PLI isn't the best tool. The government needs to understand this plain fact. They are trying the same thing again with the telecom equipment PLI. An extra 10k crores in capex and power subsidy will get you much more in local supply chain than the 6-7k crore PLI.

Utterly one sided story. Only highlights Japanese complaints about India and none of India's concerns on signaling and rolling stock issues.

'"Within two years, we will be able to have Made-In-India civilian aircraft" through a joint venture, Naidu said. He, however, did not provide details about the proposed venture or the aircraft programme.' Huh? What magical joint venture would this be? manufacturing.economictimes.…

DoT has sent a ₹6,000-7,000 cr telecom-component PLI to the finance ministry as the ₹12,195 cr scheme ends in March. The 5-year plan sets ₹3 tn sales, ₹1.5 tn exports and 9,000 jobs. Under the current scheme, the Centre disbursed ₹1,850 cr, or 15% of the outlay.

This is day dreaming. Don't think people understand how vast the gap between china vs RoW is.