Mumbai, March 22 (IANS) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Sunday that in the coming decade young innovators will not only answer deep tech challenges of the country but also that of the world, especially the Global South and emerging economies.Delivering the valedictory address at the concluding session of Bharat Innovates deep-tech pre-summit at IIT Bombay, he said the academia, industry, financial industry and youth are the key players to make the country a bigger innovation …
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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…
Mumbai, March 7 (IANS) In connection with the case involving the recovery of live cartridges from a hostel room at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay campus, the Powai Police on Saturday arrested the second accused. The accused, identified as Prashantraj Yadav (24), was apprehended from Ujjain while he was returning from a religious tour. Yadav, a resident of Bihar, works as a real estate agent. According to the police, he allegedly shared photographs of weapons with the earlier acc…
New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) — the IIT Bombay-backed broad-spectrum technology business incubator — is selling about 4 lakh shares in the SEDEMAC Mechatronics initial public offering (IPO), according to the filings.The company’s red herring prospectus (RHP) has highlighted that SINE will offload 4,08,000 equity shares.On a pre-offer paid-up equity share capital basis, this represents 0.92 per cent, indicating that the incubator is expected to e…
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) Five live 7.65 mm cartridges were recovered from the bag of a student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in Powai during a security check inside the hostel premises, following a minor dispute over money between students, officials said on Sunday.Acting on a complaint filed by a campus security officer, Powai Police have registered an FIR against an accused and launched a detailed investigation.”Preliminary findings suggest that the live cartridges were broug…
Mumbai, Feb 20 (IANS) The Indian Army and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have formalised a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance collaborative research, software innovation and talent development, a Defence Ministry official said on Friday.“The partnership aims to harness Army-Academia synergy to accelerate indigenous technological solutions and strengthen capability development in emerging domains,” said the official in a statement.The MoU also aims to forge the …
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Demand for artificial intelligence (AI), for both consumers and enterprises, is inevitable at population scale, just as seen with mobile data and unified payments interface (UPI), according to Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, CEO and MD, Yotta Data Services.Yotta Data Services has announced to deploy 20,736 liquid-cooled NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, forming one of Asia’s largest AI superclusters. This represents an investment exceeding $2 billion and is expected to go live by …
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) The India Deep Tech Alliance (IDTA) and the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Tuesday announced the launch of the India Deep Tech Accelerator, a 10‑week programme designed to help IIT‑affiliated deep‑tech startups scale internationally.The initiative, led by Polsky Center, is developed in collaboration with leading Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) innovation networks and incubators, including SINE at IIT Bombay, FIT…
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) India is set to take a major step in artificial intelligence with the launch of PARAM-2, a 17-billion-parameter multilingual AI model, at the upcoming India AI Impact Summit 2026. Developed under the BharatGen programme, PARAM-2 represents India’s push to build its own sovereign foundational AI models designed specifically for the country’s languages, governance needs and cultural realities.BharatGen is India’s national generative AI initiative, supported by the De…
Jaipur, Feb 4 (IANS) A 21-year-old student from Rajasthan died after falling from the hostel terrace at the IIT-Bombay campus in the wee hours of Wednesday. The student, identified as Naman Agarwal, was a second-year BTech Civil Engineering student and a resident of Pilani in Jhunjhunu district. According to police officials, Naman allegedly jumped from the roof of the ninth floor of Hostel No. 4 at the Powai campus around 1:30 am. He was rushed to a nearby hospital after being found critically …