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16 Dec

Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal launches Krutrim, India’s own AI

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, India, Tech ByteBusiness, India

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal on Friday announced a "made for India" ChatGPT equivalent that he said will support 10 Indian languages. Several enterprises in India are working on similar initiatives, partly based on the government's Bhashini Mission which is creating a database of Indian languages that can be used to train AI models.Called Krutrim, Sanskrit for artificial, Aggarwal's AI company will have a distinct identity from Ola's mobility and EV business. Agarwal says the company was incorporated in April as Krutrim SI Design with teams based in Bengaluru and San Francisco.Krutrim will debut in January with a beta version that…

07 Oct

India is planning to make its own space station in next 25 years

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, India, Tech ByteBusiness, India

After leaving a mark on the Moon with the Chandrayaan-3 mission, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is now gearing up to set up its first space station. The Indian Space Agency is already working on its Mars and Venus missions and chief S Somnath has revealed ISRO's big plans for the space station. In an interview with CGTN, the ISRO chairman said the Indian space agency is exploring various possibilities for future missions, including a space station and long-duration manned spacecraft launches. "We are looking at all possibilities after the success of the Moon mission," Somanath said. "We are…

24 Aug

India’s First AI School Launched In Kerala

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsScience & Tech, Tech Byte

The first AI school in India has been launched at Santhigiri Vidyabhavan, in Kerala's capital city Thiruvananthapuram. The school was inaugurated by the president Ram Nath Kovind. And it was established with a collaboration between iLearning Engines (ILE) USA and Vedhik eSchool. This innovative technology will not replace human teachers with any other websites like ChatGPT instead traditional learning and human interaction will still remain the crucial part of the school. The innovation will help to enhance learning experience of students by offering guidance, resources, machine learning, natural language processing and many more.

21 Aug

German minister uses UPI for payment at vegetable shop in India

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, India, Tech ByteBusiness, India

Germany's Federal Minister for Digital and Transport, Volker Weising, was able to feel the simplicity of UPI (Unified Payment Interface) payments at firsthand and was very "impressed" by the experience. On Sunday, the German Embassy in India took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to praise India's digital infrastructure, hailing it as one of the country's success stories. https://twitter.com/GermanyinIndia/status/1693162556918210966?s=20 The German Embassy in India shared videos and photos of Mr Wissing buying groceries and using UPI for payment. The accompanying caption read, "One of India’s success story is digital infrastructure. UPI enables everybody to make transactions in seconds. Millions of…

18 Aug

Bengaluru gets India’s first 3D Concrete Printing Technology Post Office

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsTech Byte

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw who holds the Railways, Communications, Electronics and IT portfolios inaugurated India's first 3D printed post office built up in an area of 1,021 square feet at Cambridge layout. The work was completed in 45 days. After the inauguration, Vaishnaw said: "The spirit of development, the spirit of developing our own technology, the spirit of doing something which was considered impossible in the earlier times. That's the defining feature of these times." Welcoming the development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted: "Every Indian would be proud to see India's first 3D printed Post Office at Cambridge Layout, Bengaluru.…

13 Aug

President Murmu To Launch Frigate ‘Vindhyagiri’ In Kolkata On August 17

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President Droupadi Murmu will introduce frigate 'Vindhyagiri', the sixth ship of the Project 17A programme at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited, Kolkata, on August 17(Thursday), the Indian Navy said on Sunday. "The newly christened Vindhyagiri stands as a symbol of India's determination to embrace its rich naval heritage while propelling itself towards a future of indigenous defence capabilities," the Navy said in a statement.

10 Feb

PM Narendra Modi flags off 2 Vande Bharat trains from Mumbai

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEconomy, Science & Tech, Tech Byte

On friday two Vande Bharat trains were officially inaugurated by PM Modi, one will operate between Mumbai and Solapur and the other between Mumbai and Shirdi. The event was held in Mumbai, with, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Union Railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. “For the 1st time 2 Vande Bharat trains launched. They'll connect financial centres like Mumbai & Pune to centres of our devotion. It'll benefit college-going & office-going people, farmers & devotees”, the prime minister said.

18 Nov

Skyroot, Digantar: The private firms helping India fly high in space

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsTech ByteISRO

"We started with a leap of faith." That's what Naga Bharath Daka tells when asked about Skyroot Aerospace, the Indian space-tech start-up he co-founded with a partner in 2018. Motivated by the promise give by the space sector, he and associate engineer Pawan Chandana left their secure government jobs at the ISRO- the country's government-run space agency - to set up Skyroot, that designs and make rocket components to send satellites into space. This week, Skyroot is trying to form a history by launching India's first privately developed rocket from ISRO's Sriharikota space centre in east of India. India's funding…

29 May

Mark Zuckerberg Distances Facebook From Twitter.

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Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took pains to distance his company from Twitter and its fight with US President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the White House moved to scrap a law protecting social media companies.Republican Trump, who accuses social media firms of bias against conservatives, without evidence, stepped up his attacks on Twitter after the company put a fact-checking label on two of his tweets about mail-in ballots on Tuesday for the first time.“We have a different policy I think than Twitter on this,” Zuckerberg told Fox News, Trump’s preferred broadcaster.Both sites take down content that violates their terms…

18 May

The National Commission For Women Asked Tik-Tok India To Immediately Remove A Video.

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The National Commission for Women has asked Tik-Tok India to immediately remove a video showing a man committing violence against women and directed the Maharashtra police to take action against the person responsible for making the clip.The NCW in a letter to Grievance Officer of Tik-Tok India Anuj Bhatia, said it has come across a Twitter post in which a Tik-Tok video shows a man committing violence against women.It also asked the Maharashtra police, in a letter, to immediately take action against the person responsible for making the video.