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• Kalpana ChawlaAeronautics to NASA astronaut
• Tessy ThomasEngineer who led India's Agni missiles

• Stanford AI Index 2026: a key coding benchmark jumped from 60% to near 100% in a yearAI coding ability leapt in one year and organisational adoption reached 88%, so expect AI tools in every technical job and learn to direct and check them.
• US student visas for Indians fell 69% in the peak months of 2025Far fewer F-1 visas went to Indian students in June–July 2025 than a year earlier, so keep an India or other-country option alive for a master’s or PhD.
• ₹1,000 crore venture fund for space startups under IN-SPACeAbout 40 space startups are expected to get backing, so private space firms, not just ISRO, will hire engineers and scientists.
• ₹1 lakh crore RDI scheme to fund private R&D in sunrise sectorsLong-term, low-cost money for company R&D in energy, defence, semiconductors, AI, quantum and biotech means more research jobs outside universities.

• Data scientistFind the pattern in the numbers and teach machines to spot it
• Biotech researcherWork on vaccines, crops and medicines in a lab

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   As of 2026-10-15

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