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Indian Army pushes for indigenous combat drones; no-import UAVs policy

Indian Army pushes for indigenous combat drones by launching project Him Drone-a-thon. Program is vital at this stage as India…

Updated: August 9, 2022 4:20 pm

HAL developing long-endurance drone for vigil over LAC

“The drone is being developed in such a way that it can carry a wide range of vital military systems…

August 7, 2022 5:24 pm

Drone explosion hits Russia’s Black Sea Fleet HQ

The explosion at the headquarters in the city of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in…

July 31, 2022 2:04 pm

Syngenta to scale up spraying by drones

Syngenta is ready with two products (a fungicide and insecticide) for six crops including cotton, rice and soybean for drone…

July 15, 2022 8:05 am

How India’s smart city projects can make the most of drone technology?

Few cities across India had set up Integrated Command and Control Centers (ICCC) to collect data on food and shelter…

Updated: July 14, 2022 3:01 pm

Syngenta India gets approval to use drones to spray fungicide

Syngenta said it is the first private entity to get such an approval for spraying agrochemicals, after submitting safety and…

July 5, 2022 1:10 am

Drone Mahotsav 2022: Need for defence focused technology to achieve indigenisation

The vision of Budget 2022 highlighting the ‘Drones’ as a sunrise sector and ‘Drone Shakti’ through varied applications like Drone-As-A-Service…

June 13, 2022 4:03 pm

Drone segment gets off to a flying start in India

Nearly five of the investments happened this year, with three in May and one in June.

June 13, 2022 6:10 am

MCD to deploy drones to survey landfill sites

The national capital has three landfill sites – Ghazipur, Bhalaswa and Okhla – that have turned into huge garbage mountains.

June 11, 2022 5:19 pm

Delhi-based drone delivery logistics provider unveils long-range UAV

“The biggest USP of the new UAV is that it has the largest wingspan electric vertical take-off and landing in…

May 31, 2022 3:54 pm

IIFL Foundation launches Rajasthan’s first agri drone

This is IIFL Foundation’s second drone initiative after the successful launch of Maharashtra’s first drone-based last-mile vaccine delivery in Palghar…

May 31, 2022 3:48 pm

For first time, India Post delivers mail using drone in Gujarat under pilot project

It was a medical parcel, as per the information shared on Twitter by Union Minister of State for Communications Devusinh…

May 29, 2022 5:52 pm

Drones to be made smarter, more intelligent to reduce dependence on humans: Vipul Singh, CEO, and Co-founder of AUS

Aarav Unmanned Systems (AUS) a Bangalore-based Commercial Drone Technology startup was the first to build and deploy PPK GPS-based Survey…

Updated: May 18, 2022 7:57 pm

BSF troops open fire at Pakistani drone near IB in Jammu, force it to return

“Today in the morning, alert BSF troops observed a blinking light (in the sky) and immediately fired at it in…

May 14, 2022 10:27 am

Counter-drone systems should be part of ‘smart’ air defence network

Notably, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s handing over of Transfer-of-Technology (ToT) documents on April 7 also came close on the heels…

Updated: April 18, 2022 3:57 pm

Indian Army procures ‘mini remotely piloted’ aircraft systems for surveillance

The Army has been significantly focusing on cranking up its surveillance mechanism along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with…

February 23, 2022 10:35 pm

Help from the sky: Drones at rural India’s service

With drones delivering vaccines and medicines in remote areas within minutes, transporting agro-products or monitoring crop health, rural communities have…

February 21, 2022 1:15 am