Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s September 2–4 visit produced 10 announcements focused on trade, technology and talent, including five MoUs, an investment fast-track mechanism, a Business Forum and consular dialogue; the leaders also discussed the India–EU FTA.
Source ↗The Defence PSU and the private aerospace company will jointly design, integrate, test and certify UAV–munition systems. The collaboration includes Drogo’s Delta Wing Kamikaze UAV, reported to have a proposed range of about 1,000 km and a 20–30 kg warhead capacity.
Source ↗Bodhan AI, IIT Madras’s Centre of Excellence for AI in Education, launched open-weight speech-recognition, text-to-speech, machine-translation and OCR models with support for multiple Indian languages as Digital Public Goods, alongside student and teacher assistant tools.
Source ↗The June 2026 FSR reported 7.7% growth in 2025–26, raised the 2026–27 inflation projection to 5.1%, and placed India’s foreign-exchange reserves at $672.6 billion as of June 19, covering more than 10 months of merchandise imports.
Source ↗The Meta-owned platform’s feature enables users to discover and pay electricity, gas, water, FASTag, insurance, credit-card and loan bills within WhatsApp using UPI, debit or credit cards; the network provides access to 22,722 billers in 30 categories.
Source ↗Under a Letter of Association, Bisleri will train SBI employees and housekeeping staff on segregation, collection and recycling of used plastic, supporting circular-economy goals and responsible workplace waste management.
Source ↗The RBI approved LIC’s aggregate holding of up to 9.99% of ICICI Bank’s paid-up share capital or voting rights, subject to regulatory conditions. The approval will lapse if the stake is not acquired within one year of the September 4 letter.
Source ↗President Droupadi Murmu appointed BJP Rajya Sabha MP Dr Dinesh Sharma as the Union Territory’s Lieutenant Governor, succeeding retired Admiral D. K. Joshi. The appointment is relevant to Article 239 and the constitutional administration of Union Territories.
Source ↗The notified appointments followed Supreme Court Collegium recommendations and presidential approval. The appointments span the Patna, Calcutta, Rajasthan, Bombay, Punjab and Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Courts, under the constitutional framework of Article 217.
Source ↗Scientists found the woolly-haired flowering plant in the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve’s shola grasslands across Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The species belongs to the Melastomataceae family and occurs at roughly 1,200–1,500 metres elevation.
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