The new AI tool was announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Union Budget 2026-27, and allocated Rs 150 crore.

No nation can afford to treat AI as only a public good. The calls for international cooperation at the summit then coexist uneasily with pursuit of national interest.

While all three petitions focus on the amendment to RTI laws, they also raise questions about the new Act’s impact on investigative journalism and the independence of the statutory body enforcing it

The gangster contends that his continued incarceration is an ‘arithmetical error’ by the Maharashtra prison department. India had promised Portugal at the time of the gangster’s extradition in 2005 that he would not be sentenced for longer than 25 years

Ankush Sabharwal, creator of BharatGPT, which was selected under the Centre’s IndiaAI Mission to build sovereign AI models, discusses India’s AI capabilities.

The data from the recorders, along with the wreckage, are expected to help reconstruct the events leading up to the crash, which killed former Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and four others

The world’s most consequential artificial intelligence research is being conducted by a strikingly small circle of scientists who studied mostly under the same mentors, taught in the same rooms and kept recruiting from each other’s labs.

While AI runs on algorithms, it also requires electricity, and in large volumes. This rapid expansion could reshape the country’s power landscape as data centres are emerging as large, complex and highly dynamic loads on modern grids

Kerala has become the country's first state to frame an Urban Policy. The roadmap for the next 25 years is crucial for a state that expects 80% of its population to be urban by 2050.

Stocks of both Indian and US companies crashed earlier this month following Anthropic and OpenAI’s releases of AI tools that promise to take over several tasks they currently perform. But Nilekani, and several others, still see opportunities for Indian IT…

Enacted by the P V Narasimha Rao government in September 1991, during the peak of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, the Act freezes the status of all religious places as they existed at Independence on August 15, 1947

As Maharashtra scraps the last trace of the 2014 policy, here’s how the Bombay High Court found 'extraordinary circumstances' to justify the 5% reservation in education for Muslims.

The state government is weighing its prospects in the apex court, even as it maintains its position as established in its 2017 affidavit permitting entry to women of all ages

Great Nicobar is an ecologically rich, remote and sparsely populated island. The mega project will severely affect its forests, wildlife and indigenous communities.

What is the case against Kamra and Andhare, and why is a privileges committee hearing this? We explain.

Gold ETF inflows in January accounted for 22% of gold imports during the month, while investments in silver ETFs were equal to 52% of silver imports.

The Bihar government has framed the decision, announced by Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha in the Legislative Council, as a step towards cleaner cities. But it raises questions about its impact on livelihood and communities.

Altman and Amodei were the only tech leaders who did not join hands while on stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Google’s Sundar Pichai. It was not accidental.

In a leave-to-appeal regime, the court first decides whether the case deserves to be reopened. In a statutory appeal as of right, the matter is admitted and the court re-examines facts and law.

This edition of ExplainSpeaking examines India’s Budget data and allocations to several key ministries — and their relative shares in the total government spending — to understand the policy priorities of the incumbent government and how they align with the…