New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) India’s AI Governance Guidelines are anchored in seven ‘Sutras’ to ensure that AI serves as an enabler for inclusive development, economic growth, and global competitiveness, while effectively addressing risks to individuals and society through proportionate, evidence-based measures, according to an official explainer issued on Sunday.Through this structured and forward-looking architecture, India aims to realise the vision of “AI for All,” ensuring that the transf…
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New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) India is in the first group of AI-ready nations, with systematic progress across all five layers of the AI architecture applications, models, chips, infrastructure and energy, an official document said on Thursday.India is at the forefront of an AI-led transformation, where technology is driving productivity, innovation, and job creation. “India has one of the youngest workforces in the world, with over 65 per cent of the population under 35. This large, tech savvy tal…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) As India gets prepared to host the mega ‘AI Impact Summit 2026’, the country’s approach to the democratisation of AI shows that scale, inclusion and innovation can progress together, an official statement said on Tuesday.The focus on affordability, openness and trust ensures that benefits of AI reach farmers, students, researchers, startups and public institutions alike.“The path ahead is clear. Democratising AI is not a one-time effort but a continuing commitmen…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Union Minister of Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Tuesday met US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor and said he looks forward to strong participation from the US in the upcoming ‘AI Impact Summit 2026’.The ‘India AI Impact Summit 2026’ from February 16-20 has received a phenomenal response from across the world and is shaping up to be the biggest AI summit so far globally.“Good meeting with Sergio Gor, U.S. Ambassador to India. Discussed strengthening our s…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Homegrown Yotta Data Services on Monday announced the successful deployment of BHASHINI’s end-to-end sovereign AI cloud transformation on Yotta’s Government Community Cloud (GCC) and Shakti Cloud.With this development, BHASHINI now operates entirely on Indian cloud and GPU infrastructure, ensuring that language datasets, models, and citizen interactions remain within India’s jurisdiction.The deployment demonstrates how national digital public goods can be migrated f…
New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) The upcoming ‘India-AI Impact Summit 2026’ is being organised through seven Chakras or Working Groups, structured around seven interconnected thematic areas, and each Chakra focuses on a core area of AI impact, and translates the Sutras into concrete areas of action across policy and real-world applications, an official statement said on Sunday.Each Chakra fosters multilateral collaboration on AI’s societal impacts, from building skills to ensuring ethical deployment….
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The government on Friday said a research symposium on ‘AI and its Impact’ — being organised as part of the ‘India AI Impact Summit 2026’ this month — has received a strong response from both the national and the global research community, with more than 250 submissions.The symposium, designed to bring AI research closer to real-world decision-making, will serve as a bridge between research, policy and practice and bring together diverse perspectives from India and a…
Washington, Jan 22 (IANS) India’s Ambassador to the US, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, said on Thursday that India is advancing an artificial intelligence (AI) vision anchored in an indigenous framework of “three sutras and seven interconnected chakras”, with a focus on inclusivity, affordability, and population-scale impact. Addressing a gathering of policy experts and researchers at the prestigious think-tank Brookings, Ambassador Kwatra said India’s relationship with technology offers a distinct model f…
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) India is ready to adopt a techno-legal approach to AI governance, the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the government, Prof Ajay Kumar Sood, said on Monday.Addressing a high-level roundtable conference here, Prof Sood highlighted the need to embed legal and regulatory principles directly into AI systems to ensure accountability, transparency, data privacy, and cybersecurity by design.He urged participants to evaluate all plausible ways of creating a techno-legal gov…