New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) Meta-owned WhatsApp has reportedly submitted its response to the Centre’s notice regarding its proposed ‘username’ feature, and the government is currently examining the reply.The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had issued a notice to WhatsApp last week, expressing concerns that the proposed feature could potentially increase incidents of online fraud, phishing, digital-arrest scams and impersonation attacks.The government had also directed th…
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New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The government will take a view on further action against Meta after examining the company’s formal response to a notice issued over Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material (CSEAM) allegedly promoted through paid advertisements on Instagram, IT Secretary S. Krishnan said on Thursday.Speaking on the sidelines of the CII GCC Business Summit here, Krishnan said the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is awaiting Meta’s formal reply before decidin…
New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) Meta on Sunday said it maintains a zero tolerance policy towards the solicitation or sharing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including through advertisements, asserting that it uses advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology to proactively detect and remove violating content while continuously strengthening its safeguards against offenders.In a statement, a Meta spokesperson said the company is in a constant battle with criminals who attempt to evade its det…
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (I&B) has directed Telegram to take immediate action against pirated films and OTT content and submit a report within 15 days, sources said on Saturday.The move aims to protect India’s creator economy, film industry, broadcasters, OTT platforms, producers, and distributors from the adverse impact of digital piracy.Earlier, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had blocked Telegram in India till J…
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) India and the United States discussed ways to deepen bilateral technological cooperation, with a focus on semiconductor manufacturing, artificial intelligence (AI), trusted supply chains and critical minerals, during a high-level meeting in Washington, it was announced on Thursday.In a post on social media platform X, the Embassy of India in Washington said that Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), S. Krishnan, met US Under Secret…
New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Sunday shared a detailed note on X, describing the nationwide coordination that went into conducting the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination on Sunday (June 21) and thanking the thousands of individuals and institutions involved in the process. In its post titled “Team NTA, Team Bharat: How India Came Together for NEET (UG) 2026,” the agency said that more than 20 lakh candidates appeared for the examination across 5,440 centres in India a…
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) IndiaAI Mission-backed Varya a distilled video‑generation model was launched by Avataar, an AI-native transformation company on Friday “to make frontier video AI affordable, accessible and relevant for India’s next generation of users”.Varya uses a distillation technique that reduces video generation from 50 steps to 4 steps and generates video at Rs 0.48 per second, making it up to 10 times more cost-efficient than several leading global video models, the statement…
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) India is creating a future-ready digital economy driven by innovation, entrepreneurship and technological self-reliance, according to the government.Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Jitin Prasada, said that flagship initiatives such as the India Semiconductor Mission and the IndiaAI Mission are opening new avenues for research, manufacturing and innovation-led growth. “The Government remains committed to fostering an enabling ecosystem thro…
New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) India’s defence production and data centre ambitions are converging on the same constraint — reliable power – and small modular reactors (SMRs) can support precision-oriented power supply for defence manufacturing and their deployment in emerging defence corridors could prove transformative for mission-critical operations, experts said here on Tuesday.“We cannot have energy transition without nuclear”, said Professor R. Srikanth, Dean of the School of Natural Sc…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) India’s design-linked incentive (DLI) scheme is showing good results, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said, hailing the country’s first flagship AI system on chip (SOC) ‘A2000’ at 12nm technology node designed by Thiruvananthapuram-based fabless semiconductor startup Netrasemi.The chip has now achieves successful silicon Bringup and getting ready for commercial production.“Netrasemi has designed India’s first Edge AI System-on-Chip (SoC) ‘NETRA A2000’, at…