FM Nirmala Sitharaman announced an array of steps aimed at getting technology and Al firms to invest billions of dollars in establishing data centres and global capability centres as well as electronics and chip manufacturing plants.

During the last 12 years of governance by Prime Minister Modi, many things have changed. Society has become aspirational, performance has become a necessity, goals are set to be met, delivery has priority over rhetoric, and so on.

As India debates how to regulate AI without slowing innovation, Karnataka positions itself as a state where policy is designed to enable deployment, not just experimentation. During an interaction at the India Digital Summit 2026 in Bengaluru, Dr Manjula N, Secretary to the Government, Department of Electronics, IT, Biotechnology, and Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka, outlines how the state is strengthening itself as an active innovation enabler as technology paradigms rapidly evolve

Research on human–machine interface must move from the laboratory to real-world rehabilitation, said Ramana Vinjamuri, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, at a workshop on “Introduction to human–machine interfaces and their applications in rehabilitation engineering” at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi, on Monday.