The Modi government licensed a shipment in January 2024, the very month the ICJ ruled that “at least some of the acts and omissions alleged … to have been committed by Israel in Gaza appear to be capable of falling within the provisions of the [Genocide] Convention.”

JV run by businessman close to PM Modi received official clearance for sales 10 times in past five years, claims drones are for ‘non-combat’ but Indian licensing system classifies items as munitions.

Scientists using the GRAPES-3 telescope, which detects and studies cosmic rays coming from space, think they have a new way to anticipate and prepare for geomagnetic storms.

While the real funds crunch at TIFR has not been solved at all, it seems likely that financial pressure from the government extends to all autonomous bodies under all scientific departments.

Scientists' attempts to validate the superconductivity claim in their own labs has gone nowhere because the original researchers have refused to share all their data. This has led some commentators, particularly from the West, to dub their claim a fraud.

A potentially big discovery, close scrutiny by the scientific community, doubts and questions, and validation of original data till the pall of confusion clears…

Theorists think the data is "clean". Experimentalists aren't convinced by the level of detail. Either way, physicists wait with bated breath for some confirmation that a prized jewel of materials science has been found.

Some have admitted that it won't be a full experiment as much as a statement of intent pointed at the Tamil Nadu government, where local political forces used baseless accusations to stall a larger experiment.

GRASP will be important to design better electronics, to understand the tradeoffs of electric propulsion and to ensure the GSAT 20 satellite mission goes off as planned.

One official believes that these pseudoscientific initiatives are only filling a void left behind by the "all-round incompetence" of the Indian scientific community.