New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) India’s massive push to expand optical fibre, 5G and digital public infrastructure has connected more than 2.15 lakh Gram Panchayats through BharatNet, the government said on Sunday.Optical fibre deployment nationwide rose from 19.35 lakh route kilometres in 2019 to 42.36 lakh route kilometres in 2025, and 5G connectivity now covers 99.9 per cent of districts with over 5.18 lakh base transceiver stations as of December 2025, an official statement said.Prime Minister W…
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Mumbai, Jan 9 (IANS) The PARAM Rudra supercomputing facility has been inaugurated at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.The 3 Peta FLOPS high-performance computing (HPC) system has been developed and deployed under the Build Approach of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).PARAM Rudra is based on indigenously designed Rudra servers developed by the C-DAC and manufactured in India, reinforcing the government’s Make in…
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) With large-scale funding for research and innovation, India’s science and technology (S&T) sector made a significant leap in 2025.The sector saw improvement in global rankings and advances in frontier technologies, semiconductor development, and AI-based missions.In 2025, the country rose to the 38th position among 139 economies in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025. India made a big leap from 81st rank in 2015.Four In…