New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) In a major step towards strengthening indigenous capabilities in advanced power electronics, the government on Monday unveiled a 30 kW Wide Band Gap (WBG)-based Integrated Drive System (IDS) for electric vehicles (EVs) at IIT Madras.The system has been developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Thiruvananthapuram, in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Lucas TVS under the National Mission on Power Electronics Technolo…
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New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Intel India on Monday announced a collaboration with Digital India BHASHINI Division to make the real-time translation and transcription facility BHASHINI’s Vidyalekha available on Intel‑based AI PCs.Digital India BHASHINI Division under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology developed this real-time translation and transcription utility across multiple Indian languages and the collaboration will benefit students, education content creators, schools …
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday said that social media platforms must share revenue in a fair manner with those who create content, including journalists, conventional media houses, influencers, professors and researchers.He said that people who are creating content — whether they are news professionals, creators sitting in far-flung areas, or academicians sharing their research — deserve a fair share of the revenue generated on…
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has granted an ex parte ad interim injunction in favour of Bollywood actress Kajol, restraining multiple entities from misusing her name, image, voice, and other facets of her personality, including through artificial intelligence (AI), deepfakes and online merchandise.A single-judge bench of Justice Jyoti Singh passed the interim order in a suit filed by Kajol Vishal Devgan against Kash Collective and several other defendants, including e-commerce p…
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court is set to hear on Monday the pleas filed by Meta Platforms and WhatsApp challenging a penalty of Rs 213.14 crore imposed on them by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) over their privacy policy.A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, along with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi, is likely to take up the matter.Earlier, on February 3, the court made strong remarks against the two companies, saying they cannot “play with the …
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The Congress, on Thursday, accused the Union government of ordering the removal of nine AI-generated satirical videos from the party’s social media accounts. Accusing the Centre of hypocrisy and double standards, Congress Spokesperson and Chairperson of its social media and digital platforms, Supriya Shrinate, termed it an irony that the government “was resorting to gross abuse of power by misusing the provisions of the Information Technology Act and censoring the AI con…
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) Sovereignty in artificial intelligence will give India control over how systems are designed, deployed and governed and be used to solve healthcare, education, agriculture and financial‑inclusion challenges so citizens can access services in their own languages, senior policy makers said on Tuesday at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.Abhishek Singh, Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC) and Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Tech…
United Nations, Feb 17 (IANS) With India “emerging as a global leader in renewable energy expansion”, the UN is organising a roundtable on the matter, which ranks high among Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ priorities during his visit to New Delhi, according to his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. The meeting of senior leaders from industry, finance, policy, and civil society will “discuss renewable energy and energy transition, with India emerging as a global leader in renewable energ…
Mumbai, Feb 16 (IANS) As the highly-anticipated ‘India AI Impact Summit 2026’ kicked off in New Delhi on Monday, senior policymakers and leaders called for urgent action to use artificial intelligence (AI) to promote inclusive growth.Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V. Anantha Nageswaran warned that every year delaying AI progress narrows economic and technological options.”India needs to act now to use the benefits of AI to promote inclusive growth,” Nageswaran said, adding the country can beco…
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…