New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) The Union Education Ministry on Friday dismissed allegations of data breach in Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) results, deprecating attempts to undermine public trust in the examination conducted by IIT Roorkee for more than 1.79 lakh students. In a message on social media platform X, the Ministry said, “There have been several misleading and factually incorrect reports regarding data breach and privacy violations with respect to students who took JEE (Advanced) ex…
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Bengaluru, June 1 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister-designate and State Congress President, D.K. Shivakumar, on Monday extended best wishes to students on commencement of the new academic year. He noted that some of India’s premier institutions, including IISc, NLSIU, ISRO, and HAL, are located in Karnataka and asked students to carry forward their legacy. He refused to be drawn into the hijab-saffron shawl controversy.Responding to questions from reporters about the government’s reported move to …
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) India’s next agricultural revolution will be driven by artificial intelligence, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh said on Sunday, positioning it as the central pillar of farm policy, research, and investment architecture.Addressing the inaugural session of the “Global Conference on AI in Agriculture and Investor Summit 2026” here, he said that AI offers, for the first time, scalable solutions to structural challenges…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) As India moves decisively toward a voice-first digital ecosystem, it is imperative that we build this transition on strong policy foundations and practical implementation frameworks, Amitabh Nag, CEO, Digital India BHASHINI Division, has said.Voice technologies are becoming foundational to digital inclusion in India and against this backdrop, a new Policy Report and Developers’ Toolkit on voice technologies was launched at the ‘India AI Summit Expo 2026’ here.”The …
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Billionaire Mukesh Ambani announced on Thursday that Jio and Reliance Industries will together invest as much as Rs 10 lakh crore in artificial intelligence over the next seven years.”This is not a speculative investment. It is not for chasing valuation. This is patient, disciplined, nation-building capital — designed to create durable economic value and strategic resilience for decades to come,” the Reliance Industries Chairman remarked in his address at the AI I…
Bengaluru, Feb 17 (IANS) Bengaluru-based AI infrastructure company Bharat1.AI on Tuesday announced plans to build a ‘Humanity‑First AI City’ here, “for model training, fine‑tuning and inference” by hosting over 10,000 AI researchers and innovators by year‑end.The company called the initiative, “a city-scale research and infrastructure initiative designed to advance foundational Agentic and Physical AI systems in real-world environments,” according to its statement.”The B1 AI Superpark — a…
New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) Secretary (Defence Production) Sanjeev Kumar on Monday called for aligning academic research with the needs of defence production and evolving structured mechanisms for sustained engagement. He shared his views during a virtual interaction with Directors/Deans of leading academic institutions, including IITs, NITs and IISc, along with DPSUs and other stakeholders in New Delhi.The discussions included fostering long-term student-driven research in academic institutions, s…