Hyderabad, Feb 20 (IANS) Central ministers from Telangana have slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over a shirtless protest allegedly by the Youth Congress at the ongoing India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.Union Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy alleged that Rahul Gandhi’s “cheap politics, despicable actions and shameful behaviour have insulated India’s youth and entrepreneurs.”The protest was organised against Prime Minister Modi and the proposed India-US trade deal, which t…
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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 20 (IANS) Delhi Police declined to give a clear explanation after members of the Indian Youth Congress staged a protest inside Bharat Mandapam during the India AI Impact Summit on Friday.Youth Congress workers raised slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Central government over issues including unemployment, inflation and the India-US trade deal.When asked by IANS how the protesters managed to breach security at the high-profile venue, Additional DCP Anand Mishra di…
New Delhi/Gandhinagar, Feb 20 (IANS) Gujarat has taken a significant step towards becoming a leading hub for artificial intelligence (AI) and digital infrastructure with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a 250 MW green AI-ready data centre campus at Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR).The agreement was signed in New Delhi during the India AI Impact Summit-2026, in the presence of state Science and Technology Minister Arjun Modhwadia.The MoU, concluded between the Gujarat…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday told world leaders that artificial intelligence (AI) is the technology that inspired him the most and represented the “biggest platform shift of our lifetimes”.”No technology has me dreaming bigger than AI. It is the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes. We are on the cusp of hyper progress and new discoveries that can help emerging economies leapfrog legacy gaps,” Pichai said during the opening ceremony of the ‘…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Spotlighting that an ancient Indian mathematician was the first inventor of the Binary number system, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday hailed the AI Impact Summit being hosted by New Delhi, asserting that the digital world has returned to its homeland. The Brazilian leader who sat alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the inauguration ceremony of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam hailed the landmark event being held at a …
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) At the India AI Impact Summit here, Voice AI platform Shunya Labs, a Nasscom GenAI cohort startup, on Thursday announced launch of Vaķ, an open‑weight voice‑AI and a real-time translation system that supports 55 Indian languages and 2,970 language‑pair translations.”Vaķ is accompanied by the world’s number 1-ranked open-weight speech recognition model and a neural text-to-speech engine, all released simultaneously and all free to deploy,” the company said in a st…
Patna, Feb 19 (IANS) Amid the controversy involving Galgotias University over a Chinese robotic dog showcased at the India AI Impact Summit, Union Minister Chirag Paswan on Thursday termed the incident a “major lapse” and said the government would decide on further action after the summit concludes. Interacting with reporters, Paswan said it was completely wrong for a university to display a product and falsely claim ownership of it. “This is a major lapse. A university displaying something inco…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Bharti Group Chairman Sunil Mittal on Thursday said that sectors such as healthcare, education, deep research and medical sciences are set to grow rapidly with the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit here, he said AI is no longer just a technology trend but is becoming a key driver of change across industries.Mittal highlighted how AI is transforming the way companies function and deliver services.“Areas like healthcare and edu…
United Nations, Feb 19 (IANS) Warning about the challenges of Artificial Intelligence, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that AI must not replace human potential, but supplement it. “We must invest in workers, so AI augments human potential – not replaces it,” he said, addressing a major fear about AI. At the inauguration of the India AI Impact Summit at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, he called for tackling the looming social, economic, and ecological problems from the p…