NEW DELHI—India is working to develop higher-capability communication satellites to meet the country’s growing requirements, a senior space scientist says. The country’s space agency is in the process of “developing various technologies and finding a suitable foreign industrial alliance to acquire the latest satellite platforms and payload technologies to upgrade its current satellite platforms,” Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman K. Radhakrishnan says.

NEW DELHI – The U.S. has become India’s largest defense supplier in the past three fiscal years in terms of money spent, eclipsing traditional #1 arms supplier Russia, according to statistics revealed by Defense Minister Arun Jaitley on Aug. 12 in parliament. The U.S. has secured 40% of the money spent by India on defense imports in the past three years, followed by Russia with 30% and France with 14%. Israel, which used to be among the top two, has slipped to fourth place with 4%.

NEW DELHI—Tata-SIA Airlines Limited (TSAL), the aviation joint venture of Tata Group and Singapore Airline, has branded its new airline as Vistara, which is expected to start operations by October. The airline will take delivery of its first aircraft, an Airbus A320-200, in September.