A 1,000-drone display at the grand finale of the Beating Retreat 

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A 1,000-drone display at the grand finale of the Beating Retreat 

In a never-seen-before display in India’s history, the drone fleets positioned themselves into breathtaking formations to depict the 75th year of India’s Independence, the ‘Make-in-India’ lion, the National War Memorial, Mahatma Gandhi’s contribution, a rotating globe, a map of India and the Tricolour. HT

Indian R&D spend very low

Indian R&D spend as a share of GDP is low at 0.7%. It is far lower than that of Israel (4.6%), South Korea (4.5%), Japan (3.2%), Germany (3%), US (2.8%), France (2.2%), UK (1.7%), and Canada (1.6%). Deccan Herald

Risk consulting firm Alvarez and Marshal to carry out an independent audit of BharatPe

BharatPe, the digital payments firm, has appointed risk consulting firm Alvarez and Marshal to carry out an independent audit of its internal processes and systems as rumours swirled about serious governance issues and questionable transactions involving ousted co-founder Ashneer Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain Grover.. Telegraph

BJP contestants being shown black flags in western UP

Over a dozen incidents of convoys of BJP contestants being shown black flags or having mud thrown at them have been reported from villages in western UP, which goes to polls in the first two phases, on February 10 and 14. In one incident, where BJP Siwalkhas candidate Maninderpal Singh came under attack at Chur village on January 24 evening, an FIR has been lodged naming 20 people, with 65 listed as unidentified. While Singh did not register a complaint, police filed the FIR on its own on Thursday. Indian Express

New York Times: Indian government had purchased Israeli NSO group’s Pegasus

A new political storm erupted over an investigation by the New York Times that said the Indian government had purchased Israeli NSO group’s Pegasus software in July 2017 in order to carry out targeted surveillance on citizens, claiming that high-level visits by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and even a U.N. vote on a Palestinian organisation was part of a larger backroom deal . Hindu

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