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The government has sought proposals for research and development in the cybersecurity space in “thrust areas” like digital forensics, IoT security, mobile security, data security as well as network and system security.The proposals were called by the Cyber Security Research and Development (CSRD) Group of the ministry of electronics & information technology (MeitY) on Wednesday.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIIM…

The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has issued a second advisory to platforms or intermediaries, asking them to seek explicit permission from the Centre before launching Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, under testing, in the country. The advisory was issued on Friday evening, more than two months after the ministry issued an advisory in December last year to social media platforms, directing them to follow existing IT rules to deal with the issue of deepfakes. "The use of…

"We expect the digital economy to really grow at an increasing pace in the next few years. A USD 2 billion digital economy is what India seriously needs," Krishnan said.Domestic manufacturing of semiconductors is the next big space and many companies are expected to venture into this segment, a senior MeitY official said on Wednesday adding that a USD 2 billion digital economy is what India seriously needs. S Krishnan, Secretary of Ministry of Electronics &…

Byju’s and a group of its investors have been given three days by the National Company Law Tribunal to file written submissions on a plea about the edtech firm’s rights issue. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch. Also in the letter:■ All about ‘Startup Mahakumbh’■ ETtech Done Deals■ India’s internet usage NCLT reserves order on Byju’s investors’ pleaThe National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Tuesday provided three days to Byju’s and a group of its investors to file written submissions and reserved its orders…

The government has amended the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Interception, Monitoring and Decryption of Information) Rules to give the Union and the state home secretary the power to order deletion of the order for interception, monitoring or decryption and the actual information of a person under surveillance after six months. Until now, the power to delete was with the security agency which had requested the surveillance either from the home ministry or a competent court.What do the amended rules…

Image Source : PIXABAY Tablet EPIC Foundation (Not-for-profit) has launched the first Indian-designed tablet for education which is AI-enabled. The indigenously manufactured education tablet has been designed by VVDN Technologies in collaboration with MediaTek India and CoRover.ai, the tablets come embedded with unique features of repairability and come with the…

: There should not be a one-size-fits-all approach to government’s upcoming regulation on deepfakes, a software industry group which counts enterprise firms like Microsoft as its clients said in its representation to the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY). Washington DC-headquartered software industry group BSA The Software Alliance said that business-to-business and enterprise software services may not pose the same risk to user safety and public order and that the government should consider…

The government is likely to prescribe a regulatory sandbox for the “functional security and validation” of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and work towards developing an “indigenous security ecosystem” for the cybersecurity of such devices.Additionally, it is also likely to push for the development of “indigenous tools for protecting and securing mobile apps”. For IoT devices, the IT ministry will also work with working groups to continuously update policies regarding the security of such devices.Elevate Your Tech…

While India has a design talent pool for semiconductors, it needs a talent pool for manufacturing, and a supply chain, said S Krishnan, secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY). He was speaking at an event by the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) on Wednesday in Bengaluru. "Do we have significant parts of the value chain that brings manufacturing into India? The chief executive of Micron said we have a huge talent pool as far as design is concerned but as it is setting up a manufacturing…

The Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) will seek cabinet approval for the India AI programme, which includes the setting up of GPU-based servers in public-private partnership mode with an outlay of over Rs 10,000 crore, Minister of Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Tuesday. Working groups formed by the government on Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Friday recommended setting up a three-tier compute infrastructure comprising 24,500 Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). "India AI program is worth over Rs 10,000…