India’s Minister of State (MoS) for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, highlighted the rapid digitization of India’s economy during the Global AI Summit hosted by Britain. He emphasized India’s goal to achieve 20% of its GDP from the digital economy by 2025-26, an ambitious target that reflects the country’s substantial progress in recent years. … Read more
Social media intermediaries X, Youtube, and Teleram have received notifications from the Ministry of Electronics and IT advising them to remove Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) from their platforms on the Indian internet. The notices sent to these platforms emphasise how crucial it is to immediately remove or disable any CSAM from their platforms. In … Read more
Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & IT, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, participated in a virtual conference on Monday organized by the World Bank known as the “South-South Knowledge Sharing Series.” This event centered around India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and its potential to serve as an inspiring model for African … Read more
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & IT, stated to the media yesterday that the government’s attempts to persuade major IT businesses to manufacture their products in India have been effective. Under the PLI 2.0 programme, about 40 applications were filed, many of them from important domestic … Read more
Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & IT, delivered a virtual address at the Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) Symposium hosted by IIT Madras in Chennai. In his speech, he emphasized the government’s ambition for DIR-V, which currently intends to establish a viable RISC-V ecosystem through successful public-private … Read more