AI Summit: ‘India should be among the top three AI superpowers globally’ says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (February 17, 2026) said that artificial intelligence (AI) now stood at “a civilisational inflection point” of expanding human capability but would test social foundations if left unguided. He said the technology must be used to accelerate global development while remaining deeply human-centric. The Prime Minister made this observation in … Read more

‘India’s AI edge will come from our deep understanding of language’: Mission Bhashini architect | Technology News

When Mission Bhashini was first conceived under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in 2018-19, it promised to bridge India’s language divide by developing speech-to-text AI models and multilingual translation tools. The timing proved prescient, coming four years before OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022 which set off the global AI arms race. Today, … Read more