At the India–Estonia Business Forum in Tallinn, India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Estonian leaders mapped plans to deepen trade, investment, innovation and technology partnerships, highlighting India’s rapid economic growth and Estonia’s digital governance strengths as complementary foundations for expanded bilateral cooperation across digital technologies, startups and advanced manufacturing.
Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 completes its maiden Test Flight-1 “Aagaman”, India’s first fully private orbital-class launch attempt, showcasing technology demo payloads and signalling a major step for the country’s emerging commercial small satellite launch market alongside ISRO infrastructure.
Google and Epic Games have ended their six-year antitrust battle over the Android app ecosystem by abandoning a proposed revision to a court-ordered injunction, clearing the way for third-party app stores to appear inside Google Play in the United States from July 22, 2026.
The move stems from a 2024 ruling
The Union Cabinet has approved a ₹62,500 crore Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme to boost production, deepen local value addition and support design-led growth from 2026-27 to 2030-31.
India has launched a ₹15,000 crore AS-HAPS programme to field indigenous stratospheric airships for surveillance, intelligence and long-range communications, leveraging DRDO’s Stratospheric Airship Platform trials and Make-I funding to draw in private-sector aerospace partners.
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At the India–Estonia Business Forum in Tallinn, India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Estonian leaders mapped plans to deepen trade, investment, innovation and technology partnerships, highlighting India’s rapid economic growth and Estonia’s digital governance strengths as complementary foundations for expanded bilateral cooperation across digital technologies, startups and advanced manufacturing.
Steptrade Capital’s Chanakya Opportunities Fund II, a ₹500 crore CAT II AIF, secures over ₹100 crore at first close to back India’s pre-IPO leaders in advanced manufacturing, energy transition and emerging technologies.
India and Spain are holding technical talks to link UPI with Spain’s Bizum platform, aiming to enable seamless cross-border digital payments for Indian travellers, though no launch timeline has been set.
Moonshot AI has paused new Kimi K3 subscriptions after demand maxed out its GPU capacity. The 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model, priced at flagship API rates, will release full weights on July 27, with open deployments expected to ease infrastructure load while extending its reach.
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Moonshot AI has paused new Kimi K3 subscriptions after demand maxed out its GPU capacity. The 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model, priced at flagship API rates, will release full weights on July 27, with open deployments expected to ease infrastructure load while extending its reach.
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Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 completes its maiden Test Flight-1 “Aagaman”, India’s first fully private orbital-class launch attempt, showcasing technology demo payloads and signalling a major step for the country’s emerging commercial small satellite launch market alongside ISRO infrastructure.
