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India should pursue "strategic autonomy" by building enough domestic capability in key parts of the AI ecosystem and avoid overdependence on any single technology source or location, while remaining firmly integrated into trusted and verified global supply chains, IT Secretary S Krishnan said on Tuesday. Krishnan said India has an opportunity to emerge as a global leader in building AI-powered applications and solutions for the world. He said India should leverage inputs from multiple sources while avoiding overdependence on any single country or source, and build sufficient capabilities to become an indispensable part of the global AI value chain. "Sovereign has a particular context. I think in the Indian context, even in a global context today, the appropriate term would be strategic autonomy. So, we need to have autonomy in the way in which we build these structures," Krishnan said. He was speaking at the launch of an independent multimodal AI evaluation platform by AI4Bharat ..
Telecom equipment maker HFCL on Tuesday announced that its board has approved a fresh investment of approximately Rs 400 crore to expand its optical fibre and optical fibre cable manufacturing capacities. The proposed expansion will be funded through a mix of internal accruals and debt, and is expected to be completed by July 2028. "In view of the company's strong order book for optical fiber cable (OFC) and optical connectivity products, a strong pipeline of additional business opportunities expected to materialise over the near to medium term, and the favourable long-term demand outlook globally, the Board of Directorshas approved a further expansion of the Company's Optical Fiber and Optical Fiber Cable manufacturing capacities with a total capital outlay of approximately Rs 400 crore"HFCL stated in a regulatory filing. HFCL noted that the demand is being propelled by several factors, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure, hyperscale data centres, cloud computin
A new digital platform to ensure more transparent and farmer-centric fertiliser distribution has been implemented on a pilot basis in 56 districts across 23 states so far, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. The new platform 'Framework for Fertilizer Sale' has been jointly developed by Fertiliser and Agriculture Ministries with consent from the state governments. It is implemented in a "staggered pilot manner, with the objective of making the fertiliser distribution system more transparent, organised, farmer-centric, land and crop data integrated and demand driven", Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Anupriya Patel said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. Under the proposed arrangement, farmers or their authorised representatives will register through a mobile application and enter land and crop-related details for advance booking (pre-booking) of fertiliser requirements. Upon successful booking of fertilisers, a QR code-based token shall be generated. This QR code
Meta's global team, which has been summoned by the government after the social media company restricted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook post, will be questioned on issues around algorithmic bias and their role in public order, sources said on Friday. Sources further said that Meta's global team is expected sometime in the middle of next week. Sources said Meta's global team will be "categorically" asked to clarify issues around algorithmic bias, how their algorithm operates, and the company's role in public order. The team will also appear before a parliamentary panel. The move assumes significance as the government earlier this week summoned a top Meta executive after Modi's recent post addressing India's youth and promising stringent measures against paper leaks was briefly restricted on Facebook. While the US-headquartered social media giant attributed the incident to a technical glitch and apologised, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) found