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India’s reckoning with deep sea mining and research

At ONGC’s August 2026 AGM, Chairman A.K. Singh said the company will invest about ₹1 lakh crore in cash over five years to drill 87 deepwater wells by March 2031, roughly ₹20,000 crore a year. They’ll start slow with just four wells in FY26, but plan to crank it up to 27 in the final year. Singh didn’t mince words about why they’re in such a mad dash, either: India’s crude output has been sliding downhill for eleven straight years.

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How India’s Strategic Fertiliser Diplomacy and Domestic Resilience Shielded 1.4 Billion Citizens from a Global Supply Chain Crisis

How India’s ‘Fertiliser Diplomacy’ safeguarded food security amid global crisis

When major global agricultural supply centres across Eastern Europe and the Middle East faced severe disruption, India confronted potential supply chain vulnerabilities reminiscent of earlier decades. Disruptions to fertiliser imports could have reduced domestic crop yields, driven up food inflation, and strained national economic stability. Instead, strategic supply management mitigated these risks through deliberate policy execution:

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Not ‘just assembly’: The high-tech reality of India’s semiconductor packaging and testing sector

The recent momentum following Semicon India 2026 has been met with a familiar wave of digital cynicism, with critics dismissing chip packaging as mere “screwdriver technology.” This profound misunderstanding ignores the staggering complexity of modern electronics. From picosecond automated testing to thermal encapsulation, explore why Assembly, Testing, Marking, and Packaging (ATMP) is a deeply complex, non-negotiable pillar of global technology.

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