After India officially overtook Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy, Union ministers and BJP leaders hailed the milestone as a moment of national pride and a testament to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership and vision for a rising India. Union Minister for Women and Child Development Annapurna Devi said the achievement reflects a decade […]
New Delhi, June 2 The Union government on Monday ‘Bharat Gen’ — an indigenously developed large language model (LLM) tailored for Indian languages – to create ethical, inclusive, multilingual Artificial Intelligence (AI). The LLM model was launched by Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh, at the BharatGen Summit […]
New Delhi, May 30 India’s national compute capacity has crossed 34,000 GPUs, the government said on Friday, adding that three new startups have been selected to build AI foundation models. Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said that 367 datasets have already been uploaded to ‘AI Kosh’. The minister also underlined IndiaAI Mission’s […]
New Delhi, May 30 India’s economy has maintained a steady growth trajectory, with real GDP expanding by 6.5 per cent in FY 2024-25, largely driven by healthy growth in private consumption and capital formation, industry leaders said on Friday. In nominal terms, GDP grew by 9.8 per cent, highlighting India’s position as one of the […]
New Delhi, May 18 At a time when the global economy is facing what the United Nations calls a “precarious moment”, India has emerged as a rare bright spot. The UN’s mid-year update of the World Economic Situation and Prospects projects India’s growth at 6.3 per cent in the current fiscal year, the highest among […]
Mumbai, May 4 The premier edition of the World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES 2025) ended on a high note in Mumbai on Sunday, registering an overwhelming response from exhibitors, industry leaders, startups, policymakers, academia and the public. ‘WAVES Bazaar’ initiative saw business transactions worth more than Rs 1,328 crore with more than 3,000 […]
New York, April 29 US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has reiterated that India would likely be among the “first” to sign a trade deal with the US following President Donald Trump’s demands for realigning economic relations under the threat of tariffs. “Vice President [JD] Vance was in India last week, talked about substantial progress”, he […]
New Delhi, March 12 Union Minister for Railways, Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Wednesday welcomed Elon Musk’s affordable satellite internet service Starlink to India. India’s leading telecom giants, Airtel and Jio Platforms, have partnered with SpaceX to bring Starlink Internet services to the country. “Starlink, welcome to India! Will be useful for remote area […]
New Delhi, March 10 Elon Musk on Monday said a massive cyber attack has hit his X social media platform, that disabled millions of users across the globe, including in India, from accessing the popular platform. The X platform went down in a massive global outage as users were unable to access the micro-blogging platform. […]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has admitted that one of his biggest mistakes was failing to predict the dominance of search, a market that Google successfully capitalised on. He said Microsoft had initially assumed that the web would remain decentralised, not realising that search would become its most valuable business model. Calling it a valuable lesson, […]