Science & Technology
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What are bio-based chemicals and enzymes? | Explained
India is scaling its bioeconomy with a focus on bio-based chemicals and enzymes — substances produced through biological processes (microbial fermentation, e...
Transitioning to green steel
A detailed analysis argues that India's transition to green steel is now both technically feasible and economically viable, with the "green premium" — the ex...
AI Impact Summit: Government launches SAHI, BODH to strengthen health AI ecosystem
At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on February 17, 2026, Union Health Minister JP Nadda launched two landmark digital health AI initiatives: SAHI and BODH. S...
Could Bill Gates and political tussles overshadow AI safety debate in Delhi?
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 was held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi (16-20 February 2026), organized by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Techno...
India launches ‘Bharat VISTAAR’ to provide single window information to farmers
The Union Agriculture Minister launched Phase-1 of Bharat-VISTAAR (Virtually Integrated System to Access Agricultural Resources) in Jaipur, Rajasthan, coinci...
India aims to build consensus to harness AI for public good, contain harms: Vaishnaw
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, speaking at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 (held February 16–21 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi), stated that India's objecti...
NPCI extends ‘UPI One World’ wallet service to visitors from 40 countries to AI Summit
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) extended its UPI One World wallet service to foreign visitors from 40+ countries attending the India AI Imp...
India AI Summit 2026 Day 1 highlights: PM Modi inaugurates India AI Impact Summit 2026
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 was held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, from 16–21 February 2026, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Delegations fr...
India’s data centre boom raises concerns over power supply and grid capacity
India's data centre capacity reached approximately 1,500 MW by end of 2025 and is projected to expand six-fold to 8–10 GW by 2030, placing enormous and conce...
India needs to embrace new tech, AI can save ₹20,000 cr in cargo handling: EAC-PM member
Gourav Vallabh, a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), stated that adopting artificial intelligence in port cargo handling...
Adani to invest $100 billion in AI data centres by 2035
The Adani Group announced plans to invest $100 billion in AI data centres across India by 2035, with the investment expected to catalyse an additional $150 b...
Sovereign AI models available at summit, huge response to event: Vaishnaw
At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 (Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, February 16–21, 2026), IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that India's sovereign AI model...
Need much stronger regulation on deepfakes, talks on with industry: Vaishnaw
At the AI Impact Summit 2026 (February 16–21, Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi), the Union IT Minister stated that India needs "much stronger regulation on deepfak...
Adani Group commits USD 100 bn to build AI-ready energy-compute backbone
The Adani Group announced a direct investment of USD 100 billion to develop renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centres across India by 2035 —...
AI summit begins today, real-world solutions on table
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 opened on February 16–21, 2026, at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi — the first global AI summit hosted by a developing/Global Sout...
EXCLUSIVE: Announced in Union Budget, AI-powered Bharat-VISTAAR set to be launched today
Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched Bharat-VISTAAR (Virtually Integrated System to Access Agricultural Resources) on February 17, 2026,...
For India, AI a ‘stress test’ of state capacity; must align tech adoption with mass employability: CEA Nageswaran
Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran, speaking at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, described artificial intelligence as a "stress test of our state c...
Future of UPI, RuPay in value-added services, potential ‘far from fully realised’, says new report
A Ministry of Finance report on the decade of UPI finds that while adoption has surged beyond urban areas, the system's potential in value-added services — m...
‘AI could be game changer for distributed RE’
Experts and government officials at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi highlighted artificial intelligence as a potential game-changer for India's ...
We invite world’s data to reside in India: PM Modi ahead of AI Impact Summit 2026
On the eve of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 (Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, February 16–21), PM Narendra Modi stated "We invite the whole world's data to resi...