Amaravati, April 14 (IANS) India’s first quantum reference facilities were unveiled here on Tuesday, opening a new chapter in quantum technology to mark the World Quantum Day. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the ‘1S Open Access Quantum Facility’ at SRM University, as well as the ‘1Q Quantum Facility’ situated at Medha Towers.These two quantum testbeds provide the necessary infrastructure to test quantum computing devices and components, officials said.With the unveiling of …
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Mumbai, March 21 (IANS) Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Union government, on Saturday, inaugurated the two-day Bharat Innovates Deep-Tech Pre-Summit at IIT Bombay, highlighting the importance of deep-tech innovation to India’s technological leadership and global competitiveness. Delivering his inaugural address, Sood, who is the chairperson of the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC), highlighted the role of academic institutions, r…
Mumbai, March 20 (IANS) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will lead discussions among 200-plus startup founders and investors at Bharat Innovates deep-tech pre-summit beginning at IIT Bombay on Saturday, an official said. The two-day event to showcase startups, investor interactions, and industry networking will feature around 137 promising deep-tech startups selected from more than 3,000 applications received from across the country, said an official statement.The Bharat Innovates ini…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) The inaugural edition of the Raisina Science Diplomacy Initiative (SDI) held here on Thursday witnessed global thought leaders, policymakers, and scholars deliberate on the evolving role of science diplomacy in navigating the emerging imperatives of strategic autonomy and the governance challenges posed by disruptive technologies. The initiative jointly launched by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to Union government and the Observer Research Foundation (O…
Washington, Jan 31 (IANS) India is pursuing a trust-based approach to artificial intelligence governance that emphasises inclusion, innovation, and safeguards rather than rigid regulation, the country’s top scientific adviser told the think-tank community.Speaking virtually from New Delhi, Principal Scientific Adviser, Ajay Kumar Sood told a CSIS conference that AI governance has become a core element of national economic and strategic policy.“AI is no longer confined to isolated enterprise …
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The government on Sunday announced a major relaxation of the mandatory three-year existence condition for deep-tech startups to avail recognition under the DSIR’s Industrial Research and Development Promotion Programme.The move, aimed at accelerating India’s startup ecosystem, is expected to provide early momentum to early starters or beginners of StartUp projects as well as promising innovators and entrepreneurs, said Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh at the 42nd Fou…
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) The government has unveiled a new framework to establish a unified, objective yardstick to measure the maturity of technology projects from laboratory conception to commercial deployment.The framework is open for public consultation until January 31, 2026. It aims to serve as the operational backbone for various R&D funds launched under National Missions.By providing a rigorous methodology to assess projects across the nine Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) – ranging…
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…