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Moral, Accountable, National Sovereignty, Accessible, Valid (MANAV) Framework, MeitY, 2026: Safe and Trusted AI Governance.

In the era of rapid digital transformation, Artificial Intelligence has emerged as a critical driver of economic growth and governance in India. However, its unregulated expansion has raised serious concerns regarding ethical use, data sovereignty, and accountability. To address this regulatory gap, the Government of India launched the MANAV Framework in 2026. The framework was formally unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the India AI Impact Summit, 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. It has been conceptualized by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under the IndiaAI Mission, following the recommendations of a drafting committee constituted in July 2025.

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CyTrain: Building India’s Digital Human-Capacity Infrastructure for Cybercrime Investigation

The rapid expansion of digital payments, online services, social media and connected technologies has created increasingly complex forms of cybercrime. Investigating such offences requires specialised capabilities in digital evidence collection, cyber forensics, electronic device examination, online financial trails and emerging technologies. However, cybercrime investigation also faces capacity-related challenges, including uneven access to specialised training, the need to keep investigative skills aligned with rapidly evolving criminal methods, and the requirement for coordinated capacity-building across State and Union Territory law-enforcement agencies. The Ministry of Home Affairs has recognised these needs through initiatives supporting cyber-forensic laboratories, specialised training and technical assistance to investigating officers (Ministry of Home Affairs, 2022; Ministry of Home Affairs, 2024).

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India–France Innovation Roadmap 2030 (2026): A Technology and Innovation Partnership

Diplomatic relations between India and France date to 1947, and the bilateral Strategic Partnership, India's first with a Western power, was established in 1998, anchored on non-interference in internal affairs, strategic autonomy, and independence from each other's military alliances. Recognising 25 years of that partnership in 2023, both countries adopted the Horizon 2047 Roadmap to guide bilateral cooperation

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Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme 2026

The Make India Initiative has propelled electronics manufacturing to grow 7 times and exports to grow 11 times since FY 2014-15. The electronics manufacturing sector has also emerged as a significant source of employment, with a few plants employing more than 5,000 employees at a single location. (MeitY, 2026)

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IndiaAI Mission (2024): Building Compute Sovereignty for Strategic Autonomy

Samiksha Muskan

Background

The Union Cabinet approved the IndianAI Mission in March 2024 with a budget outlay of Rs. 10,371.92 crore as a national initiative to build an end-to-end artificial intelligence ecosystem in India. Officially, the mission seeks to democratise access to compute, improve data quality, develop indigenous AI capabilities, attract talent, support start ups, encourage socially relevant applications and promote responsible AI. The larger policy vocabulary surrounding the mission is significant: the Cabinet note explicitly links IndiaAI to “tech sovereignty”, indicating that the programme is not merely industrial policy but also a strategic response to concentrated foreign control over advanced AI infrastructure.

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