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38 stories for “Data” · February 2026
Clear filtersIndia set up its first government-supported National Biobank devoted to Lysosomal Storage Disorders. These are inherited metabolic diseases caused by the lack of particular enzymes, leading to harmful build-up of substan...
On its 40th Foundation Day, 25 February 2026, the Department of Biotechnology launched SUJVIKA, an AI-powered portal offering structured trade data on biotech imports. By flagging high-value and high-volume imports, it a...
OVERVIEW As part of IndiaAI Mission 2.0 in February 2026, the scientific community marked a major breakthrough with the launch of the ‘Kaveri’ 64-qubit quantum processor by Bengaluru-based startup QpiAI. This follows the...
OVERVIEWNational Science Day 2026 was celebrated across India on February 28, marking the discovery of the Raman Effect by C. V. Raman. The theme for this year, “Indigenous Technologies for Viksit Bharat,” emphasized Ind...
Using data from the Juno spacecraft, which has orbited Jupiter since 2016, NASA refined the planet's dimensions. Its equatorial diameter is now put at 142,976 km (88,841 miles), about 5 miles less than earlier, and its p...
The Union Health Minister launched the Secure AI for Health Initiative (SAHI) and the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH) at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. SAHI is a national governance framework for r...
RBI data showed India's foreign exchange reserves climbing to a record US$725.727 billion in the week ended 13 February 2026, a weekly jump of US$8.663 billion. Foreign Currency Assets, held in dollars, euros, yen and po...
Eighty-eight countries and international bodies endorsed the New Delhi Declaration at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. The voluntary, non-binding declaration backs democratic diffusion of AI and proposes a Global AI Impa...
The Global AI Brain Race Report 2026 placed the United States first in artificial intelligence, with China second and Singapore third. India came sixth with a score of 32 out of 100, performing well on talent readiness b...
Delegates at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi formally adopted the Delhi Declaration. The document sets out seven principles for governing AI, addressing accountability, trust, fairness, transparency, safety,...
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, Accounta...
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 'Vi...
