New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) Almost 16 per cent of the world’s AI talent is of Indian origin, giving India an edge in the global AI capability talent, a white paper showed on Tuesday, adding that India is projected to contribute nearly 20 per cent of incremental global GDP growth over the next 15 years.The white paper, launched at the ‘India AI Impact Summit 2026’ here, marks a strategic effort to shift the national AI narrative from a narrow focus on automation and displacement to one centred…
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New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) India’s $265 billion technology services sector can scale to $750–850 billion by 2035, while strengthening global competitiveness in the AI era and supporting the Viksit Bharat 2047 vision, according to a 10-year roadmap released by NITI Aayog on Thursday.The roadmap by NITI Aayog’s Frontier Tech Hub spotlights that artificial intelligence marks a structural shift in the industry: value will move from labour-arbitrage services toward IP-led, outcome-oriented, and p…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that the government has cancelled 12 lakh SIM cards for the cyber security, blocked IMEI of 3 lakh mobiles, and arrested 20,853 accused till December 2025. Delivering the keynote address at the National Conference on “Tackling Cyber-Enabled Frauds and Dismantling the Ecosystem”, organised by the CBI and Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), HM Shah said that multiple government agencies are working together in a c…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) Taking cognisance of the spread of AI-based deepfakes online, the IT Ministry on Tuesday issued revised guidelines for social media intermediaries like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, directing them to clearly label all AI-generated content and ensure that such synthetic material carries embedded identifiers.The government has set a three-hour deadline for social media platforms to take down AI-generated or deepfake content once it is flagged by the government or ordere…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Homegrown Yotta Data Services on Monday announced the successful deployment of BHASHINI’s end-to-end sovereign AI cloud transformation on Yotta’s Government Community Cloud (GCC) and Shakti Cloud.With this development, BHASHINI now operates entirely on Indian cloud and GPU infrastructure, ensuring that language datasets, models, and citizen interactions remain within India’s jurisdiction.The deployment demonstrates how national digital public goods can be migrated f…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) As the Union Budget announced tax holiday for data and cloud centre companies, Finance Ministry sources on Wednesday clarified four essential conditions for foreign firms to meet to become applicable for the exemption.The exemption is available from tax year 2026-27 onwards till tax year 2046-47, to “a foreign company which provides cloud services globally including in India,” sources said.Four essential conditions must be satisfied by the foreign company to qualify for t…
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) Industry on Sunday hailed the Union Budget 2026–27 for adopting a steady and largely inclusive approach, reinforcing India’s manufacturing and technology ecosystem through policy continuity, scale, and targeted reforms.The sustained focus on electronics manufacturing, the launch of India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 2.0, and the significant expansion of the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) reaffirm the government’s long-term commitment to building re…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Over one lakh individuals have enrolled in India’s chip design training programmes, with around 67,000 already trained, the government said on Saturday.The initiative, driven by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), aims to make India self-reliant in chip design, a sector crucial for modern electronics, green energy, defence, and emerging technologies.“Over 1 lakh individuals have enrolled in chip design training, with approximately 67,000 t…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Tesla CEO and founder of AI firm xAI, Elon Musk, has said he is unaware of any instances where Grok, xAI’s chatbot, generated sexualised images of underage individuals.Musk posted on X platform that “I not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok. Literally zero. Obviously, Grok does not spontaneously generate images, it does so only according to user requests.”Musk’s comments come after regulatory scrutiny on reports that Grok had complied with requests …
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) National language AI platform BHASHINI has moved from rule-based systems to AI-powered inclusive engines, providing language services to all citizens and advancing towards full societal inclusivity, according to senior government officials.The Digital India BHASHINI Division at IT Ministry organised ‘BHASHINI Samudaye: Strengthening India’s Language AI Ecosystem’ here in collaboration with Wadhwani AI.According to a ministry statement, the event represented a signi…