Japan is set to ease its strict arms export rules. This move is attracting significant interest from countries like Poland and the Philippi...

The new Drone Rules 2021, announced in July, will replace the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Rules 2021, which was lauded by stakeholders for si...

Drone systems have wide variety of commercial and industrial applications in healthcare and e-commerce logistics, infrastructure monitoring...

Overall, the new rules put forth promising foundational ground for the drone industry. Institutionalising RIA, addressing privacy concerns ...

The simplification of the licensing regime prescribed is welcome, as also the permission for non-citizens to operate drones. The Digital Sk...

The three key technology components of counter-drone systems — detection, identification and interdiction — individually fall under multipl...

The Draft Drone Rules 2021 will supersede the Unmanned Aircraft System Rules 2021 that came into effect in March this year.

The number of forms to be filled to operate drones in the country have been reduced to six in draft ‘Drone Rules, 2021' in comparison to 25...

It is clearly time for policymakers to focus on benefits drone technology can bring, and not just potential dangers. Here are some ways we ...

The draft rules have been issued at a time when the use of drones has increased due to a coronavirus lockdown, for purposes like surveillan...

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has put out for public consultations the draft requirements for operation of Civil RPAS.

The new drone policy categorizes it into five categories - weight starting from 250 gram to over 150 kilogram. Among the rules prescribed, ...

Civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju expressed hope that the draft norms would encourage genuine and "discourage nefarious activiti...

"I see the market in India is very scalable. But, of course, regulation and other policies have to come into view [for the industry to thri...

A drone was seen flying above Vidhana Soudha and the High Court during a programme organised by the Karnataka Bar Council Bar Council recen...

Officials from Civil Aviation, Defence and Home Ministries as well as those from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and other agencies a...

As per the draft guidelines issued last month, DGCA would register all civil unmanned aircraft and issue an Unmanned Aircraft Operator Perm...