New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) India’s artificial intelligence (AI) roadmap should be built on the principles of affordability and accessibility, Ravi Shankar Prajapati, Joint Director at the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, said on Thursday.He was delivering the keynote address at a policy roundtable titled “Roadmap for AI and Sustainability in India,” organised by Chintan Research Foundation in association with The Dialogue here.Prajapati stressed that India’s AI ambitions are entering a decis…
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New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Tuesday said that the true benefit of artificial intelligence (AI) will come only when it is multilingual, capable of understanding and communicating in many languages, including local and international ones.Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the launch of his book, titled ‘Smarter Than the Storm’, the former G20 Sherpa said that in the future, India aims to be at the forefront of emerging technologies.A key focus of the boo…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) A digital repository, namely India’s AI Impact Startups has been released at the ‘India AI Impact Summit 2026’, that profiles 110 startups and non‑profits deploying artificial intelligence for population‑scale social and economic impact, the government said on Thursday.The repository, published by IndiaAI and Kalpa Impact, marked the first structured mapping of India’s AI‑for‑impact ecosystem and will serve as reference for policymakers seeking integration‑…
Aizawl, Feb 17 (IANS) Mizoram Governor General Vijay Kumar Singh (Retd) on Tuesday said that security and enforcement agencies have seized narcotics valued at over Rs 1,047 crore in the state during 2025-26, along with large quantities of illegal arecanuts, liquor, arms, explosives, and counterfeit currency, leading to numerous arrests. Addressing the opening day of the sixth sitting of the 9th Mizoram Assembly, which is also the budget session, the Governor said that the overall law and orde…
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) IndiaAI, in collaboration with Intel India, will attempt an official Guinness World Records title for the “Most pledges received for an AI responsibility campaign in 24 hours” next week on February 16–17.This nationwide ‘AI Responsibility’ Pledge is envisioned as a large-scale citizen-led movement promoting the responsible, ethical, and human-centric use of Artificial Intelligence, while building awareness, trust, and accountability in emerging technologies, accord…
Washington, Feb 2 (IANS) The union budget sends a clear signal that New Delhi is actively courting global capital, talent, and strategic autonomy, with non-resident Indians placed at the center of that effort, a US-based policy expert said.Khanderao Kand, Chief of Policy and Strategy at the Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies, told IANS in an interview that the budget reflects strategic confidence at a time of global economic and geopolitical uncertainty.Responding to a question, Ka…
New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) The ‘India AI Impact Summit 2026’ next month has received a phenomenal response from across the world and is shaping up to be the biggest AI summit so far globally, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said on Friday.Vaishnaw said that leading IT companies have developed more than 200 focused, sector-specific AI models, which are proposed to be launched during the AI Impact Summit. He further said that investments worth nearly $70 billion are already flo…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) In a bid to create AI-powered solutions that help in monitoring financial reporting quality and speed up internal tasks, the government has announced the ‘IndiaAI Financial Reporting Compliance Challenge’.The National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA), in partnership with IndiaAI, has launched the challenge to solicit AI-driven solutions.Participants will compete for a total prize pool of Rs 1.5 crore, with up to 10 teams receiving Rs 5 lakh each during a virtual …
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) Showcasing Uttar Pradesh’s AI leadership as an official precursor to the ‘IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026,’ IndiaAI and IT Ministry, in collaboration with the Uttar Pradesh government, are set to host the ‘Regional AI Impact Conference 2026’ in Lucknow on January 12-13, it was announced on Sunday.The two-day event will showcase cutting-edge deployments of artificial intelligence in governance and public service delivery, and to align state-level initiatives with the…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The Rajasthan ‘Regional AI Impact Conference 2026’ on January 6 will feature key announcements and the signing of memoranda of understanding (MoUs), aimed at strengthening the state’s AI ecosystem, fostering innovation, and accelerating the adoption of AI across priority sectors, it was announced on Sunday.As part of the country’s build-up to the ‘India AI Impact Summit 2026’, the Rajasthan Regional AI Impact Conference 2026 will be held in Jaipur.The conference wil…