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Time of India
11-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Centre approves third electronics cluster for Tamil Nadu, Manufacturing News, ET Manufacturing
Advt By , ETManufacturing The central government has approved the establishment of a third electronics manufacturing cluster in Tamil Nadu , taking the total number of such planned facilities in the state to was confirmed by Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Electronics and Information Technology, and Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw , during a virtual address at an event held at IIT Union government has been promoting electronics manufacturing in Tamil Nadu, with projects in mobile phones, laptops, and servers already underway. In March 2025, two electronics manufacturing clusters worth ₹1,112 crore were approved in the state. These facilities are expected to produce components for consumer durables and IT hardware, catering to both domestic and international did not disclose the investment amount or timeline for the third the railways front, Tamil Nadu is also being developed as a hub for manufacturing train wheels and Vande Bharat trains. High-strength wheels for locomotives and high-speed trains are now being produced at a factory near Chennai, supported by the Indian Railways Source: PTI
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Business Standard
08-06-2025
- Science
- Business Standard
The four key startups leading the race to build India's first LLM
With the government's support, work begins on foundational models for AI services Aashish Aryan Avik Das New Delhi/Bengaluru Listen to This Article India will be ready with its first indigenously developed artificial intelligence large language model (LLM) in six to eight months, said Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, on January 30 this year. The move was seen as India's response to DeepSeek, an open-source LLM developed in China, reportedly at a fraction of the cost it took to create other models globally. (LLMs are AI programmes trained on vast amounts of text data to understand, generate, and process human language.) But Indian government officials say they are not merely reacting to events elsewhere. A plan to develop indigenous
India Gazette
03-06-2025
- Business
- India Gazette
Paraguay interested in importing Made in India 'Vande Bharat' trains: Ashwini Vaishnaw
ANI 03 Jun 2025, 11:35 GMT+10 New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw met the president of Paraguay, Santiago Pena and discussed opportunities regarding the growth of Indian his meeting with Vaishnaw on Monday, Paraguay's president showed interest in importing India's Vande Bharat trains. On the other hand, he also invited India to join the Central Bi-Oceanic Railway Corridor project (connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans). Ashwini Vaishnaw said on social media platform 'X' 'Called on President H.E. Mr. @SantiPenap of Paraguay. Paraguay has expressed keen interest in importing India's Vande Bharat trains and has invited India to join the Central Bi-Oceanic Railway Corridor project (connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans).' Vande Bharat is a reflection of the Government of India's efforts towards strengthening the 'Make in India' campaign. The first Vande Bharat Express train was flagged off on February 15, 2019, on the New Delhi-Kanpur-Allahabad-Varanasi train has a capability to run up to a maximum speed of 160 kmph and has travel classes like Shatabdi Train but with better Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai, a Railways Production unit, has been the force behind a completely in-house design and manufacture, computer modelling and working with a large number of suppliers for system integration in just 18 objective behind the train is to upgrade maintenance technologies and methodologies and achieve improvement in productivity and performance of all Railway assets and manpower, which inter alia would cover reliability, availability, utilisation and Vande Bharat comes with different features such as intelligent braking system which enables better acceleration and deceleration. All coaches in the train are equipped with automatic doors; a GPS-based audio-visual passenger information system, on-board hotspot Wi-Fi for entertainment purposes, and very comfortable seating. The executive class also has rotating chairs. (ANI)
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Business Standard
30-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
India likely to possess 46K graphics processing units in a fortnight
Results for the second round of GPU bidding were announced on Friday by Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw New Delhi Listen to This Article India is expected to have around 46,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) in place by June 10, upon conclusion of the third round of bidding under the IndiaAI Mission, government officials said. After the third round of the bidding, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) will shift to a continuous empanelment process. Under this system, any company willing to match the lowest bid or per-hour cost for GPUs discovered during the first round of bidding will be eligible to supply these high-performance computing machines to participants in the ₹10,372 crore IndiaAI Mission, the officials said.
India Gazette
30-05-2025
- Business
- India Gazette
Ministry working on PhD programme for fundamental research on AI: Ashwini Vaishnaw
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday that the government is working on a PhD programme so that the Artificial Intelligence mission could fund the basic fundamental research in AI. 'It will really bring new opportunities for us and for the IT industry, which will go through a major transition period,' the minister told an AI-focused event. 'We should be able to capture this transition as an opportunity rather than getting disrupted by it, because whenever such a large technological change happens, it's very important that the industry and the government and the talent development ecosystem, they should all work together to make sure that we get prepared for the changing times,' he supplemented. Speaking about the potential of AI, he said AI in itself may not mean much, but when it is applied to various sectors, it can really make a big difference in solving problems at the population level and on a large scale. The focus of his government is very clear - a vision of democratising technology, he said. 'It's very important that technology should not be left in the hands of a few,' he supplemented. 'It's very important that a larger section of the society should have access to technology, should be able to develop new solutions, have better opportunities.' Supplementing the democratisation of technology, he said about 19,000 GPUs have already been deployed. The second round of empanelment may create another 16,000 GPUs, taking the total to 34,000 GPUs. 'It's a very big, large, significantly large number of compute. And this is a continuous process,' Minister Vaishnaw said. 'The 3rd round will also be completed very soon. That will bring another round of GPUs. In a sense, what we were some time back worried about whether India will be able to get that kind of compute facility or not. It was a big worry in the minds of many now practically those worries are over, with 34,000 GPUs, the compute facility is very significant,' the minister said. On the AI front, India will soon have its first foundational Artificial Intelligence model, the minister has indicated on several occasions recently. The government is going to host an open-source model on Indian servers. This comes as Chinese startup DeepSeek has challenged the AI world. India is rapidly building a strong AI computing and semiconductor infrastructure to support its growing digital economy. With the approval of the IndiaAI Mission in 2024, the government allocated Rs 10,300 crore over five years to strengthen AI capabilities. A key focus of this mission is the development of a high-end common computing facility AI as a technology has just begun, and the number of innovations that one can see going forward is going to be phenomenal. (ANI)
