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We need an innovative India Cloud that caters to our people: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

We need an innovative India Cloud that caters to our people: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

🕔13:38, 22.Mar 2023

New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) As data centre business surges in India amid the demand from various industry stakeholders to store citizens’ data locally, the government is planning to create more innovations around the India Cloud just like India Stack,

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We’re building AI for governance, commercial use, deep capabilities: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

We’re building AI for governance, commercial use, deep capabilities: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

🕔07:30, 14.Mar 2023

New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Monday broadly outlined the IndiaAI programme and how it will help the country build world-class platforms, solutions and tools to not only solve local issues

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SVB collapse: Minister Chandrasekhar to meet Indian startups to see how govt can help them

SVB collapse: Minister Chandrasekhar to meet Indian startups to see how govt can help them

🕔13:48, 12.Mar 2023

New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) As the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the US left the Indian startup ecosystem worried, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Sunday said he will hold a meeting with

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Bill Gates meets Rajeev Chandrasekhar, discusses India Stack, AI innovations

Bill Gates meets Rajeev Chandrasekhar, discusses India Stack, AI innovations

🕔19:07, 1.Mar 2023

New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Wednesday met Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and had a “good, interesting conversation about India Stack and Artificial Intelligence (AI)”. During the meeting at the office

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MoS IT Chandrasekhar launches Grievance Appellate Committee for safe internet

MoS IT Chandrasekhar launches Grievance Appellate Committee for safe internet

🕔15:28, 28.Feb 2023

New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) In a bid to empower millions of Indian social media users, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Tuesday launched the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) that will look into their concerns regarding content

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‘India Stack’ conference to showcase our innovations to the world: MoS IT

‘India Stack’ conference to showcase our innovations to the world: MoS IT

🕔17:21, 24.Jan 2023

New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) The country will showcase its various innovations at the first ‘India Stack Developers’ conference, expanding its reach to other countries as well which aim to build digital public platforms, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State of Electronics

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Govt to put in place principle-based legal framework to catalyse India’s Techade: MoS IT

Govt to put in place principle-based legal framework to catalyse India’s Techade: MoS IT

🕔11:06, 20.Jan 2023

New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) The government will put in place a less prescriptive and more principle-based and comprehensive legal framework for catalysing India’s Techade and to build a trillion-dollar economy, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said

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MeitY invites comments from stakeholders and general public on amendment proposed to ‘IT Rules’

MeitY invites comments from stakeholders and general public on amendment proposed to ‘IT Rules’

🕔07:21, 20.Jan 2023

New Delhi, Jan 20: Government to hold public consultation on proposed amendment of IT rules with respect to fact checking misinformation or patently false and untrue or misleading information on social media and other intermediary platforms In pursuance of the

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Online gaming companies can’t bet on outcome of games: MoS IT

Online gaming companies can’t bet on outcome of games: MoS IT

🕔07:45, 3.Jan 2023

New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) Betting on the outcome of games won’t be allowed by online gaming companies under the draft rules, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said on Monday. “As per the principles laid under the

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Number of cyber attacks steadily rising, 12.67 lakh during Nov 2022

Number of cyber attacks steadily rising, 12.67 lakh during Nov 2022

🕔20:28, 14.Dec 2022

New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) The number of cyber attacks in India has recorded a steady growth over the past few years, and the total number as reported to and tracked by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) in the

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India largest ‘connected’ nation with over 800 mn broadband users: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

India largest ‘connected’ nation with over 800 mn broadband users: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

🕔12:03, 12.Dec 2022

New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) India has become the largest ‘connected’ nation in the world with 800 million users, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said. Speaking at the India Internet Governance Forum 2022 (IIGF2022), the

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India to take over as chair of Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence

India to take over as chair of Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence

🕔06:22, 21.Nov 2022

New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) India will take over as the chair of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), an international initiative to support responsible and human-centric development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), once it assumes G20 presidency on

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Protection of citizens’ Constitutional rights a must: Chandrasekhar

Protection of citizens’ Constitutional rights a must: Chandrasekhar

🕔11:05, 30.Oct 2022

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday while speaking on the amendments to the IT intermediary Rules 2021 said protection of Constitutional rights of Indian citizens is a must, adding India is a trustee of rights of

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Time to skill more rural Indian youth for new-age jobs: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Time to skill more rural Indian youth for new-age jobs: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

🕔18:25, 22.Sep 2022

New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) As India progresses on the path to skill millions of youth for emerging technologies, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Thursday said that digital opportunities should be equitably available to each and

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India creating massive AI database to boost startup ecosystem: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

India creating massive AI database to boost startup ecosystem: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

🕔19:40, 21.Sep 2022

Mumbai, Sep 21 (IANS) Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said on Wednesday that the country is creating one of the largest datasets programmes where anonymised non-personal data will be available for the entire AI ecosystem to boost

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India aims to leapfrog in quantum technology with industry’s help: Minister

India aims to leapfrog in quantum technology with industry’s help: Minister

🕔17:25, 14.Sep 2022

Mumbai, Sep 14 (IANS) As India embarks on its Techade journey, the government aims to build capabilities in quantum and high performance computing with the help from industry leaders like IBM, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said

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MeitY, Meta join hands to nurture 40 Indian startups in extended reality

MeitY, Meta join hands to nurture 40 Indian startups in extended reality

🕔19:24, 13.Sep 2022

New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The IT Ministry’s MeitY Startup Hub (MSH) and Meta (formerly Facebook) on Tuesday launched a startup Programme to help 40 early-stage startups in India — with a grant of Rs 20 lakh each — create products

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348 apps blocked for collecting, transmitting users’ info: Govt

348 apps blocked for collecting, transmitting users’ info: Govt

🕔19:04, 3.Aug 2022

New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Amid rising complaints against mobile apps, the Centre has identified and blocked 348 apps developed by various countries, including China, for allegedly collecting user information for profiling citizens and transmitting it overseas in an unauthorised manner,

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Startups, unicorns new drivers of India’s digital economy: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Startups, unicorns new drivers of India’s digital economy: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

🕔21:48, 5.Jul 2022

Ahmedabad, July 5 (IANS) Digital India is catalysing India’s ‘Techade’ and startups and unicorns are the new drivers of the digital economy, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Tuesday. The ‘Digital India’ initiatives have brought in

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India, UK need to work on data security, secure internet: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

India, UK need to work on data security, secure internet: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

🕔21:09, 2.Jul 2022

India’s Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar, along with CEOs of some Indian startups and unicorns, met British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss future collaborations and partnerships between India and the UK in the innovation and

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