India’s AI-Driven Foreign Policy: On Monday, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs held a dedicated sitting to hear senior Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) officials brief MPs on India’s tech diplomacy from cyberspace governance and AI norms to outer-space cooperation. Committee chair Shashi Tharoor said 17 members attended and “a number of probing questions…
Please update Arattai: Zoho’s homegrown messaging app Arattai is rolling out what founder Sridhar Vembu calls one of its biggest security upgrades—mandatory end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for one-to-one chats. In a detailed post on X, Vembu urged users to update Arattai from the Play Store/App Store and encourage their contacts to do the same, stating that…
Digital Payments Growth: India’s long-talked-about cashless economy is no longer just a slogan – RBI numbers now show it in hard data. A new Payment System Report (June 2025) from the Reserve Bank of India reveals that in calendar year 2024, digital payment transactions accounted for 99.7% of all payments by volume and 97.5% by…
Supercomputing Centers: NVIDIA is turning its quantum–classical “bridge” from concept into deployed infrastructure. At the SC25 supercomputing conference in St. Louis, the company announced that more than a dozen leading scientific supercomputing centers and national laboratories worldwide are adopting NVIDIA NVQLink™, described as a first-of-its-kind, open, universal interconnect linking quantum processors with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing…
KEO launch: In a first-of-its-kind move by any Indian state, Karnataka has launched KEO, a compact, affordable and AI-ready personal computer designed and developed entirely within the state to bridge the digital access gap. Announced by IT & BT Minister Priyank Kharge at the curtain-raiser for Bengaluru Tech Summit (BTS) 2025, KEO (Knowledge-driven, Economical, Open-source)…
India’s human spaceflight ambitions received a sharper strategic contour at the CSIR-ISRO Space Meet 2025, held on 17 November 2025 at Hotel Radisson Blu Atria, Bengaluru. Delivering a comprehensive address, Dr V. Narayanan, Secretary, Department of Space & Chairman, ISRO, set the overarching direction for India’s journey from Gaganyaan to future crewed missions, stressing that…
Digital Privacy & Data Protection: In 2026, digital privacy has become one of the most contested arenas in global policy. As data flows become more integral to daily life, countries are racing to define who controls it and how it can be used. The European Union continues to enforce one of the world’s strictest data…
Global AI Race 2026: As we move into 2026, the global race for artificial intelligence supremacy has entered a critical phase. This competition is no longer just about breakthroughs in models — it’s about infrastructure, energy supply, and geopolitical strategy. The United States continues to grab headlines for its research leadership and cutting-edge AI labs….
Dual-Use Drones: In less than a decade, India has gone from a blanket ban on civilian drones in 2014 to positioning itself as a “global drone hub.” On the ground, that ambition is visible in: The same airframes and avionics that deliver blood and biopsy samples today can be re-configured for border surveillance, mapping and…
Tele-ICU has moved from pandemic stop-gap to mainstream critical-care strategy. Studies in 2023–25 show that tele-ICU “hub-and-spoke” models—where a central team of intensivists monitors multiple ICUs remotely—can be feasible and beneficial even in resource-limited settings, improving access to specialist care and standardising protocols. At the same time, AI for triage and early warning in critical…