Desi data to get top secret & A-B sovereign cover under new cloud rulesIndia is implementing a new cloud policy for government data. Sensitive information like Aadhaar and UPI will be hosted on secure, governme...
27 Mar, 2026, 12.16 AM IST
Govt amends IT rules, with focus on AI contentThe amendments to the IT Act has the potential to cause convulsions in the social media industry, as the new laws slash the timeline to tak...
11 Feb, 2026, 08.36 AM IST
Global tech reviewing AI-labelling mandate as India curbs deepfakesMajor tech players like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google are scrutinizing India's recent policy that requires clear labeling of AI-generated p...
27 Oct, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Data centre industry wary of proposed certification schemeIndia's data centre industry opposes the government's proposed certification scheme, citing concerns over duplication and misalignment with...
06 Aug, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Small companies can now chase India's giant AI dreamsSunil Gupta, chief executive of Yotta Data Services, which has placed a purchase order of 16,000 H100 GPUs from Nvidia and went live with 4...
28 Sep, 2024, 05.03 PM IST
Zero tolerance for sexual abuse content, committed to removing it: Telegram, YouTubeIn its response to the notice sent by the IT ministry, YouTube said it had removed over 94,000 channels and over 2.5 million videos for vio...
07 Oct, 2023, 09.14 PM IST
As cyber threat escalates, G20 an opportunity to devise security planIn today's world, cyber security has become synonymous with information technology. During Covid-19, the world witnessed an increase in cyb...
16 Jan, 2023, 02.40 PM IST
PEs join late-stage rounds; forex betting apps lure unsuspecting investorsWith large fund houses now nursing bruises to their public tech portfolios in the US, private equity and sovereign wealth funds have sensed...
05 Sep, 2022, 02.02 PM IST
Indian cyber agency gives VPN providers 3-months breatherThe ministry said the extension was provided after MSMEs, data centres, VPS, VPN, and cloud service providers sought time to “build capacit...
28 Jun, 2022, 08.26 PM IST
Servers running, but snags remain: India's data trade faces several pain pointsIndia’s data centre industry, though growing at a fast clip and soon to get infra status, is facing quite a few pain points, including powe...
20 Mar, 2022, 03.12 PM IST
Software, cloud companies seek easier bidding rules for govt contractsThe Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) had in September last year mandated that government departments and min...
12 Aug, 2021, 06.00 AM IST
Govt starts discussions on amending India's Information Technology ActIndia's Information Technology Act may have been rendered irrelevant by the pervasive growth of smartphones and social media, while the adv...
21 Jan, 2021, 05.25 AM IST
Can regulate cloud service companies under Trai Act: RS SharmaThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has claimed complete jurisdiction to regulate cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services...
29 Feb, 2020, 08.33 AM IST
US tech body opposes India's bid for data localisationThe Draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018, which mandates storing of critical personal user data within the territory of India, or data...
13 Nov, 2019, 02.31 PM IST
Govt may soon make it mandatory for Google, Facebook to sell users’ public dataMeitY now says that companies – and not a government repository – should hold and monetise public data.
09 Sep, 2019, 05.51 PM IST
While Indian tech cos support Intermediary Guidelines, US firms stand opposedIndian tech firms support most of the proposals while American players call the rules arbitrary
07 Feb, 2019, 08.34 AM IST
Microsoft to government: Process followed to set up online marketplace is against policiesMicrosoft, which is also a prospective bidder for the Government e-Marketplace (GeM), has written to several government departments includi...
05 Jun, 2017, 07.29 AM IST