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‘No impact on India’s semiconductor goals’, says govt as Foxconn pulls out of joint venture with Vedanta

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar tweets that it is not for govt 'to get into why or how two private companies choose to partner or not'.

‘Not an endorsement’: IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on YouTube ad using govt logo

In an ad campaign by YouTube, the platform asks consumers to 'trust only the real experts', along with names of individual social media influencers and the logo for MeitY.

Tesla ‘seriously looking’ at India as production, innovation base: IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

The Elon Musk-led US automaker held talks with Indian officials this week on various topics, including incentives for car and battery manufacturing.

WhatsApp responds to international spam call reports by users, ‘implements AI, machine learning-based systems’

According to a statement issued by the company Thursday, the 'new enforcement will reduce current calling rate by at least 50% & control current incidence effectively'.

Govt to probe WhatsApp’s ‘privacy breach’ but Meta-owned firm blames bug on Android devices

A Twitter user has accused WhatsApp of 'illegally' accessing microphones in smartphones.

Siddaramaiah & Shivakumar are poster boys of corruption, says IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

As curtains fall on Karnataka campaign, the BJP leader talks about his party’s chances in Karnataka, corruption allegations against Bommai govt, and ‘The Kerala Story’.

To offset Azure-Amazon-Google monopoly in Indian cloud space, govt to incentivise domestic players

According to Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, govt plans to introduce incentive scheme so consumers 'have more choice', and is also working on program for a secure govt cloud.

Silicon Valley Bank crisis: Minister Chandrasekhar meets Indian startups, pledges govt support

Minister interacts with more than 450 SVB-crisis hit startups, promises to share suggestions with finance minister. Attendees raise concerns about their US dollar deposits.

‘Mobile phones will be among top 10 exports from India from 2024,’ says MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Stating Modi has laid out clear vision of India becoming significant player in global electronics supply chain, he added country will do $300 billion of electronic manufacturing by 2026.

UPI to Aadhaar, Modi govt showcases ‘India Stack’ of digital goodies for global adoption

Govt says digital public services will be offered to other countries & startups during first annual stack developers’ conference to be held in Delhi Wednesday.

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What Trump-Harris result could mean for India in key areas, from geopolitics to trade & immigration

India cannot be blasé about change in any important capital in the world. Let's look at five key areas where US policy matters for India and how it may vary between Harris and Trump.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Rifles slung upside down, on ponies. Indian troops go on their 1st patrol in Depsang since 2020

Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.