Day: April 27, 2025

How DRDO Achieves a Significant Milestone in Scramjet Engine Development

Manish Kumar

Advancing India’s Hypersonic Weapon Capabilities The Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), part of India’s premier Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has achieved a major breakthrough in Hypersonic Weapon Technology. On April 25, 2025, DRDL successfully conducted a long-duration ground test of an Active Cooled Scramjet Subscale Combustor for over 1,000 seconds. This critical test was carried out at the newly inaugurated Scramjet Connect Test Facility in Hyderabad, marking a major stride towards the development of a full-scale flight-ready scramjet engine. This recent success builds on an earlier test…

From Teacher to Terror Mastermind: How Adil Hussain Thoker Orchestrated the Pahalgam Attack

Manish Kumar

Who is Adil Hussain Thoker? Adil Hussain Thoker, the alleged mastermind behind the brutal April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, once led an ordinary life as a teacher in Jammu and Kashmir. According to multiple media reports, Thoker was one of the six gunmen responsible for killing 26 people, many of them innocent civilians. The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed responsibility for the assault that shocked the nation. But the bigger question remains: how did a young man from a small village turn into…