Union Education Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday chaired a high-level roundtable with founders of 10 emerging Indian startups leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education, signalling the Centre’s push to integrate advanced technologies into the country’s learning ecosystem. The interaction, held at IIT Delhi, brought together policymakers, academic leaders and…
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ISRO Space Tech Boosts Digital India in Bengal
Space technology developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is actively supporting flagship national initiatives such as Digital India, rural broadband expansion, fisheries safety and agricultural monitoring in West Bengal, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Personnel,…
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AI in Indian Courts: Expanding Access to Justice
India’s judiciary is undergoing a calibrated digital transformation, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerging as a key enabler of access to justice. Under the eCourts Phase III initiative, courts are integrating AI tools to improve efficiency, transparency and multilingual access while firmly retaining human judicial decision-making at the core. The eCourts…
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Tackling Proxy Representation in Women-Led Panchayats
New Delhi: The Centre has reiterated that eliminating proxy representation of elected women representatives in Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) remains a priority, even as it underlined that “Panchayat” is a State subject under the Constitution. States Hold Primary Responsibility Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha on February 11,…
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India’s Telecom Subscribers Cross 1.3 Billion in Dec 2025
India’s telecom sector continued its steady expansion in December 2025, with the total number of telephone subscribers crossing the 1.3 billion mark. According to the latest data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the country’s total subscriber base increased to 1,306.14 million by the end of December,…
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Telecom Pensioner Camps: Delhi Feb 2026 Schedule
In a significant move aimed at easing pension-related processes for retired telecom employees, the Principal Controller of Communication Accounts (Pr. CCA), Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has released the schedule for Telecom Pensioner Facilitation Camps in Delhi and NCR for February 2026. These camps are being organized to assist pensioners in…
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Bharat Taxi: India’s Cooperative Ride-Hailing Push
Bharat Taxi, India’s first cooperative-led ride-hailing platform, is emerging as a transformative force in the country’s mobility sector by placing drivers at the centre of ownership, governance, and value creation. The initiative reflects the Government of India’s broader push to strengthen cooperatives as engines of employment, social security, and grassroots…
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Kaushal Rath Launched to Democratise AI Literacy Across India
New Delhi: In a major push to expand Artificial Intelligence literacy across the country, IndiaAI under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has flagged off Kaushal Rath, a mobile AI awareness initiative, as part of the national programme “Yuva AI for All.” The initiative, launched in collaboration with the…
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Amit Shah Unveils Major Push to Combat Cyber-Enabled Frauds
Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah on Tuesday underscored the need for coordinated national action to dismantle cyber-enabled fraud networks, as India rapidly advances toward a digitally empowered society. Addressing the National Conference on “Tackling Cyber-Enabled Frauds & Dismantling the Ecosystem” in New Delhi, he said…
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India’s Sovereign AI Cloud: Yotta-BHASHINI Partnership
India’s journey toward a self-reliant artificial intelligence ecosystem has taken a significant leap with Yotta Data Services successfully deploying BHASHINI’s end-to-end sovereign AI cloud transformation. The initiative ensures that India’s national language AI platform now runs entirely on indigenous cloud and GPU infrastructure, strengthening data sovereignty while supporting population-scale multilingual…