Amidst rising geopolitical tensions in West Asia and a quickly changing global order, the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting is scheduled to begin in New Delhi in 2026, with India serving as chair. Over the course of two days, foreign ministers and senior representatives from BRICS and partner nations will convene for a ministerial engagement chaired […]
BAE Systems has secured a contract worth $180 million from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for the TRIDON Mk2 anti-aircraft system. The TRIDON Mk2 is a truck-mounted 40 mm anti-aircraft gun system that addresses a gap in today’s air defence. The system has multi-target capability and can engage a wide range of aerial threats, […]
TKMS AG & Co. KGaA (TKMS), a provider of maritime defense solutions including conventional submarines, naval ships and innovative electronics solutions, and Spanish company Navantia S.A., SME (Navantia), one of Europe’s market leaders in the design, construction and through life support of naval ships and submarines as well as combat systems integrator, have signed a […]
Navantia and the Turkish Naval Shipyards General Directorate (TGM) formalized on 8 April, at TGM’s facilities in Ankara, the signing of a framework maintenance agreement for the amphibious ship TCG Anadolu, built in Turkey from a Navantia design based on the LHD Juan Carlos I and on the ALHDs for Australia. The agreement was signed […]
Eight high impact start-ups have been shortlisted in The Liveability Challenge (TLC) – a global crowdsourcing platform presented by Temasek Foundation and organised by Eco-Business. Chosen from a record 1,500 submissions across 100 countries, the finalists represent the cutting-edge innovations addressing urgent sustainable development challenges in the urban tropics. These disruptive and technology-driven solutions in the two […]
Two satellites, part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Celeste in orbit demonstration mission, were launched at 10:14 CET today, atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from New Zealand. The two satellites separated from the launcher about an hour later. This marks the beginning of their early operations phase, during which mission control gets them […]
Belrise Industries Limited (BIL), one of India’s leading integrated automotive component manufacturers with a diverse portfolio of safety-critical systems and engineering solutions announced that its step-down wholly owned subsidiary, Belrise UK Holdings Limited, has signed a definitive Share Purchase Agreement to acquire 100% of the issued share capital of Chester Hall Precision Engineering Holdings Limited […]
Airline Amelia and Thales today announced the successful large-scale deployment of their contrail- avoidance solution. This initiative, launched in 2024 on Amelia flights between Paris and Valladolid (Spain), optimizes flight plans by modifying aircraft altitude rather than lateral trajectory in order to avoid the formation of condensation trails (contrails). This reduces the climate impact of […]
In response to supply disruptions in global oil markets caused by the continuing crisis in West Asia, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday that 400 million barrels of oil would be released from the emergency stockpiles of its 32 member nations. The release of the emergency stockpiles to the market will be determined […]
The environmental cooperation Memorandum of Understanding between India and Finland was renewed on Thursday, strengthening the bilateral cooperation between the two countries in the areas of pollution control, climate action, and sustainable resource management. The Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav and his Finnish counterpart, Sari Multala, formally renewed the 2020 pact in the nation’s capital, […]
