PM Modi’s high stakes push for sovereign AI faces reality checkIndia is striving to build its own artificial intelligence capabilities, aiming for self-reliance and global export. However, the nation fa...
03 Jun, 2026, 07.53 PM IST
Data spills at home; Green card limbo deepensHappy Tuesday! Recent data-collection experiments by on-demand platforms have drawn attention to Indian physical AI startups. This and more...
26 May, 2026, 09.21 AM IST
IMD new monsoon forecast system: How AI will allow weather department in predicting rainsThe India Meteorological Department has launched an AI-enabled monsoon advance forecasting system and a high-resolution spatial rainfall fo...
14 May, 2026, 02.00 PM IST
India could see an additional 15-40 unusually hot days each year in the next two decades: CEEWIndia faces a significant rise in extreme weather. Projections show 15 to 40 more hot days each year for the next two decades. Unusually wa...
29 Apr, 2026, 10.19 PM IST
MoSPI to launch new surveys, boost high-frequency economic indicators: Saurabh GargIndia's statistics ministry is set to launch a new Index of Services Production. Plans include state-level data revisions and harmonisation...
06 Mar, 2026, 12.47 AM IST
Redefining Governance Through Geo-AI: The PM GatiShakti NMP transformationIndia is integrating Artificial Intelligence with geospatial technology to drive intelligent governance, moving beyond traditional administ...
15 Feb, 2026, 01.28 PM IST
White paper signals push to build AI on DPI rails, democratise compute accessThe white paper was developed through consultations with domain experts and key stakeholders, including the NITI Aayog, with the aim of pro...
30 Dec, 2025, 06.03 PM IST
Telangana to launch India's first state-led digital public infrastructure for AI on July 2Telangana Data Exchange (TGDeX) plans to create AI solutions by bringing together the state, industry, research institutions, and startups....
30 Jun, 2025, 09.15 PM IST
Wikimedia Just Dropped a Massive Wikipedia Dataset on Kaggle — A Bold Move to Stop AI Bots From ScrapingThe beta dataset is being hosted on Google-owned Kaggle. The dataset features 'structured Wikipedia content in English and French', the Wik...
17 Apr, 2025, 08.20 PM IST
India AI Mission chooses projects of 8 colleges for ethical AI developmentThe Rs 10,372 crore India AI Mission, an initiative of the IT ministry, was launched in July last year and aims to create compute capacity ...
16 Oct, 2024, 11.08 PM IST
IndiaAI Datasets Platform set to go live by January next yearThe IndiaAI Datasets Platform, a key component of the government's IndiaAI Mission, is expected to be launched by January 2025. This platfo...
10 Oct, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
Delhi govt to upgrade geospatial database on land records with high-resolution drone surveysThe original database operational since over a decade includes comprehensive spatial datasets covering drains, sewers, water pipes, power l...
02 Aug, 2024, 12.00 PM IST
Genesys, Survey of India in pact for digital mapping of citiesThe partnership will introduce the India Map Stack initiative, using high-precision 3D data, Digital Terrain Models (DTM), Digital Surface ...
22 Nov, 2023, 07.46 PM IST
North Korea: Two-year-old sent to life imprisonment after Bible found in parents' possessionIt is estimated that between 50,000 and 70,000 North Korean citizens have been imprisoned for ‘being Christians’. An entire family, includi...
27 May, 2023, 05.39 PM IST
Government working groups may submit AI framework in two weeksThe working groups, set up under the aegis of the central programme that has now been christened as INDIAai, have been tasked with creating...
23 May, 2023, 08.00 AM IST
Sebi revises objective, eligibility criteria of innovation sandboxIn addition, a steering committee comprising representatives from the enabling organisations has been formed to drive the innovation sandbo...
02 Feb, 2021, 10.28 PM IST
Govt to crowd source, develop new data sources, deep dive in existing data for official stats“We plan to setup a data innovation lab wherein we will try new things. We will tie up with private institutions and industry to work on of...
09 Sep, 2020, 06.43 AM IST