Current Affairs - Technology

To Boost Digital Governance is the central objective behind the launch of the ‘Blockchain India Challenge’ by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The initiative encourages Indian startups to build secure, permissioned blockchain solutions tailored for government use cases. It focuses on enhancing regulatory control, transparency, auditability, and tamper-proof record management across sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, education, land records, and public distribution systems. Implemented with support from C-DAC, the programme provides stage-wise funding to selected startups, aiming to create scalable, field-ready solutions that strengthen efficiency and trust in public service delivery systems across India.

Lucknow is the city where IBM’s AI GovTech Innovation Centre was inaugurated by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The centre aims to promote AI-driven governance, enhance transparency, and improve public service delivery across the state. It focuses on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, deep tech, robotics, drone technology, medical technology, and quantum computing. The initiative includes collaborations with IIT Kanpur and the signing of MoUs with state departments to develop AI-based applications and introduce AI literacy in schools, supporting the vision of developing the city as an “AI City.”

AIIMS Delhi hosted the Indo-French Centre for AI in Health (IF-CAIH), inaugurated jointly by India and France during the RUSH 2026 meetings. The centre serves as a dedicated hub for advancing artificial intelligence applications in healthcare, brain health, neuroscience, and clinical decision-support systems. It reflects a strong collaboration between leading Indian and French institutions to promote interdisciplinary research, academic exchange, and innovation in digital health. The initiative strengthens sovereign AI capabilities, supports responsible health data usage, and enhances global cooperation in medical research, education, and technology-driven healthcare solutions.

NVIDIA partnered with Larsen & Toubro (L&T) to develop India’s first sovereign gigawatt-scale AI factory infrastructure. The collaboration focuses on building production-grade AI capacity within the country by expanding high-density GPU clusters and deploying accelerated computing systems. Planned data centre expansions in Chennai and Mumbai will support large-scale AI model training and enterprise-level AI workloads. By integrating NVIDIA’s GPUs, CPUs, networking solutions, and AI Enterprise software with L&T’s engineering expertise, the initiative strengthens India’s digital infrastructure, aligns with the IndiaAI Mission, and promotes secure, scalable, and domestically anchored AI development.

Space startup GalaxEye entered into a strategic agreement with NewSpace India Limited, commonly known as NSIL, which functions as the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation. This partnership makes GalaxEye the first private Indian satellite operator to establish a data reseller collaboration of this kind. Under the agreement, NSIL will globally market and distribute GalaxEye’s SyncFused OptoSAR satellite imagery. The collaboration aims to provide high-precision data solutions for sectors such as agriculture, disaster management, environmental monitoring, and other critical applications, enhancing India’s presence in the global space-based data market.