At the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, the Prime Minister set out the M.A.N.A.V. vision, a five-pillar framework to guide how AI is built and used in India. The acronym stands for Moral and Ethical Systems, Accountable Governance, National Sovereignty, Accessible and Inclusive AI, and Valid and Legitimate Systems.
In a public poll conducted by the Forest Department, the Indian Grey Hornbill was selected as the 'Bird of Tirupattur' district. The exercise aimed to make students and young people more aware of biodiversity and forest conservation. The district has a sizeable population of the bird in the Ambur and Singarapettai forest ranges and the Yelagiri Hills.
Several home-grown AI models were presented at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. Bengaluru start-up Sarvam AI released two language models for multilingual and voice use across 22 Indian languages, one demonstrated as 'Vikram'. Gnani.ai launched Vachana text-to-speech and speech-to-text models trained on over one million hours of Indian voice data.
Google launched the America-India Connect project to strengthen digital and AI infrastructure links between the US and India, backed by its five-year US$15 billion AI infrastructure investment in India. It includes a new international subsea cable gateway at Visakhapatnam and new cable routes linking India with Singapore, South Africa and Australia, plus four fibre-optic routes connecting the US, India and…
Bihar displayed an AI-enabled remote e-voting system at the India AI Impact Summit. Built by C-DAC with the Bihar State Election Commission, the 'e-Voting SECBHR' Android app lets voters cast ballots remotely. Verification combines OTP, AI-based facial recognition and matching against the EPIC database, while security features include dual encryption, liveness detection, blockchain storage and VVPAT-like audit trails.
The Tamil Nadu government signed Memoranda of Understanding worth ₹5,980 crore to boost semiconductor and aerospace manufacturing in the State. Under one agreement, Japan's MinebeaMitsumi will put ₹1,980 crore into a manufacturing and R&D centre at Mahindra Origins Industrial Park in Tiruvallur district, producing Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBT), integrated circuits, motors and sensors.
Tamil Nadu notified new rules for granting furlough to convicts. Those convicted of sedition or acts against India's sovereignty, rape, POCSO offences, specified NDPS Act offences, foreign convicts, and those involved in prison offences in the last five years are ineligible.
Part I of the report of the High-Level Committee on Union-State Relations, headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph, was placed in the Tamil Nadu Assembly. K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty and Dr. M. Naganathan were its other members.
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