June 2025 Highlights: Tech, Environment, Defense, Real Estate, Culinary Arts & AI Energy

• Agilisium, a Chennai-based IT firm, celebrated its 10th anniversary by gifting 25 Hyundai Creta SUVs to loyal employees and announcing company-wide salary hikes.

• Indian EV startup Ultraviolette Automotive made history as the first Indian company to launch its made-in-India electric motorcycles in 10 European countries.

• The Indian government announced a new FASTag-based annual toll pass for private vehicles priced at ₹3,000, effective August 15, 2025, offering extensive travel benefits on National Highways and Expressways.

• In a major environmental effort, Swedish billionaire Johan Eliasch bought around 400,000 acres of the Amazon rainforest in 2005 to preserve it.

• Infosys founder Narayana Murthy shared how ChatGPT reduced his lecture prep time from 25-30 hours to 5 hours, boosting productivity fivefold.

• Indian-origin professor Eshan Chattopadhyay of Cornell University won the 2025 Gödel Prize for breakthrough research on generating reliable random numbers from weak sources.

• A British Royal Navy F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter remains grounded at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport since an emergency landing on June 14, 2025, due to low fuel, bad weather, and a hydraulic issue needing specialist repairs.

• A Mexican man reportedly pays ₹4 lakh (~$4,800 USD) monthly rent for a luxurious house near Bengaluru’s Nandi Hills, valuing peace and nature despite the city’s distance.

• Indian culinary star Pooja Dhingra became the first Indian and first female chef to win the prestigious La Liste Pastry Game Changer Award 2025 for her impact on the global pastry scene.

• A striking energy efficiency gap was highlighted: the human brain uses about 12 watts to think, whereas an AI system performing similar complex tasks requires an estimated 2.7 billion watts.