New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha highlighted the critical bottleneck hindering India’s ambitions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, stressing that the primary constraint is not funding, capital, or talent but the availability of computational resources, particularly Graphics Processing Units or GPUs.Chadha pointed out that rising GPU costs and global supply chain disruptions are severely limiting India’s data centre expansion and efforts to tr…
Latest Science and Technology News & Updates
Jammu, Jan 16 (IANS) Union MoS (Ind. Charge) for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh on Friday said that while India had around 400 startups before 2014, the number of recognised startups has now crossed 2 lakhs, with nearly 50 per cent emerging from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities. Speaking to reporters here, Singh said there was once a perception that startups could only be launched in metropolitan cities, but the Narendra Modi-led government has successfully changed that mindset. “Today, nearly …
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) India and Chile are close to concluding a bilateral comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) with four rounds of talks already having been completed on the issue, Chile’s Ambassador, Juan Angulo, said on Monday.The agreement would boost bilateral trade and investments as well as services, the envoy said in an interaction with IANS.”We hope that with the CEPA negotiations, we will increase the presence of more companies and industries from Chile and India in …
Beijing, Dec 31 (IANS) Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday said China is ready to work with all countries to advance world peace and development. In his 2026 New Year message, Xi said over the past year China continued to embrace the world with open arms.To better address climate change, China announced new Nationally Determined Contributions, Xi said, adding that after announcing the three global initiatives on development, security, and civilization, he put forward the Global Governance …
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) India has transformed into a global science and technology leader over the last decade, and the country now sets global benchmarks in space, defence, healthcare, and innovation, said Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, on Friday.Addressing the inaugural session of the Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan 2025 at the National Sanskrit University here, Singh attributed the feat to “decisive policy support from the top political h…