Policy UpdateArya Gupta 1. Background India’s medical devices industry has been unregulated, fragmented and import dependent. Until 2017, the industry was not subject to any specific regulatory regime. The first steps towards oversight were taken with the Medical Devices Rules,…
AI has become a part of people's everyday lives, especially students'. There is a great deal of debate among educational circles regarding the use of AI in academic work and its implications for the future of education systems.
In light of the India-UK Vision 2035 and the pivotal role of critical technologies in the evolving global order, the Technology Security Initiative (TSI) was launched on 24 July 2024 as a bilateral strategic initiative between India and the United Kingdom. The initiative was officially launched by UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy during his visit to India on behalf of the UK Prime Minister.
In modern times, Air defence has emerged as an important part of the national security of India. Air defence is no longer just about keeping enemy aircraft out of the airspace but has grown in scope in the wake of the evolution of warfare and the widespread adoption of modern missile systems, drone warfare, electronic warfare and cyber warfare.
Space is no longer a purely scientific domain; it has become a strategic theatre of competition. Modern warfare depends heavily on satellites for communication, navigation, intelligence gathering, missile warning, surveillance and precision targeting.
The rise of AI and India's journey towards the flagship process of the IndiaAI mission, which kicked off on March 7, 2024, under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, under the banner of IndiaAI, which is a section of the Division of Business under Digital India Cooperation.
India is preparing for a major technological transformation that could finally solve one of the country’s biggest connectivity problems — poor mobile network coverage in remote areas.
The government and tech industry are actively exploring Direct-to-Device (D2D) satellite communication technology, which would allow smartphones to connect directly with satellites in space instead of relying only on mobile towers.