Sanvi Choudhary, Author at Media India Group

Paras Anti-Drone expands global footprint as demand for CUAS solutions grows

September 1, 2026

How has your partnership with Cerbair progressed since the USD 2.2 million order announced last year? The partnership with Cerbair has progressed extremely well and has evolved into a strong example of how complementary capabilities can be combined to address rapidly evolving dro...

Classroom realities may send India’s robotics dreams crashing

August 31, 2026

Even as India supposedly races to prepare its children for an AI and robotics-driven future, the country’s schools continue to struggle with the basic conditions needed for effective learning, mainly due to the amount allocated for education in Union and State budgets each year...

Supreme Court rap on FSSAI for front of pack label flags persistent failures

August 25, 2026

Last week, the Supreme Court took the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the apex food safety regulator of the nation, to task over delays in introducing front-of-pack labelling (FOPL), bringing the spotlight on India’s approach to packaged food. FOPL involve...

83 pc of AI voice scam victims in India suffer financial losses

August 23, 2026

In January this year, Smita, a school teacher working in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, received a desperate call from someone who sounded exactly like her cousin. The caller claimed a friend had suffered a heart attack and urgently needed money for treatment. Trusting the familiar voic...

Haridwar waste crisis returns after Kanwar Yatra

August 22, 2026

The annual Kanwar Yatra that concluded last week in Haridwar left behind approximately 7,000 metric tonnes of waste. Nearly 2,000 metric tonnes were generated during the final two days alone, when around 10 million devotees arrived in the city, taking the total number of pilgri...

Khovar painting: Mithila’s fading wedding tradition

August 19, 2026

As Bihar’s wedding season begins, homes across the state prepare for celebrations filled with rituals, music and family gatherings. Yet, one of Mithila’s oldest wedding traditions is quietly fading away. Khovar painting, a ritual wall art traditionally created by wome...

Kanwar Yatra: Nation bears the cost of impunity

August 17, 2026

The Kanwar Yatra is one of the largest annual religious pilgrimages in northern India. Every year, millions of devotees travel to Haridwar and other points along the Ganga River to collect holy water and carry it back to Shiva temples in their hometowns. Many undertake the journe...

Sarmoli: Uttarakhand’s women-led tourism model empowers communities

August 15, 2026

Nestled at the foothills of the Panchachuli mountain range, Sarmoli was once a village struggling with limited economic opportunities and increasing migration as young people moved to cities in search of employment. Over the past decade, however, the community has transformed tou...

India’s shrinking classrooms expose cracks in school education

August 14, 2026

Even as the Union government claims overall improvement in the education system in India, highlighting the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and claiming increased budgetary allocations and improvements in learning outcomes, its own school database shows that enrollment has c...

Promoting private space companies may undermine national space missions

August 13, 2026

On July 18, Skyroot Aerospace, a private firm successfully launched Vikram-1, a a four-stage small satellite launch vehicle, marking the country’s first space launch by a private firm from Sriharikota, a launch-pad owned and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (I...

Forces face moral dilemma over Artificial Intelligence in defence

August 12, 2026

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed the ways of the human society in thousands of highly visible ways, from shopping and travel to work and health. But away from such applications used openly by hundreds of millions people, AI is increasingly being used in covert operations ...

Kongthong: Meghalaya’s whistling village preserves living heritage through tourism

August 12, 2026

Nestled amid the rolling Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, Kongthong, popularly known as the ‘Whistling Village,’ has emerged as one of India’s most distinctive cultural tourism destinations. Here, every resident is identified not by a spoken name but by a unique melody, a cent...