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Krutrim Deploys Kannada Voice Bot for Karnataka Gram Panchayat Helplines
Ola Krutrim rolled out a Kannada voice bot on Karnataka gram panchayat helplines to triage land-record and pension queries before routing callers to clerks.
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NITI Aayog Pilot Routes District Block Complaints Through Vernacular LLM Triage in Six States
Six states will route block-level grievances through a vernacular large-language-model triage layer before files reach district collectors.
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C-DAC Tests Air-Gapped LLM Gateway for State Data Centres Under IndiaAI Compute Mission
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing engineers began piloting an air-gapped large-language-model gateway for state data centres, routing IndiaAI Mission compute through on-prem inference after MeitY security auditors barred direct cloud API calls for classified workflows.
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MeitY Prepares Regulation-Focused AI Consultation Paper After Vaishnaw Flags Deepfake Harms
Electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said MeitY will publish a regulation-focused AI consultation paper within a month, stressing safety, deepfake harms and industry-led compliance alongside a 5,000-GPU tender tranche.
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MeitY Shortlists Hyperscale Bidders for Indraprastha AI Compute Campus
MeitY named three hyperscale bidders for a sovereign AI compute campus near Delhi, with rack-density rules and domestic water-recycling targets attached to the lease.
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Electronics Ministry Plans SGI Labeling Clinics for Citizen Cyber Drill Week
MeitY is rolling out citizen-facing briefings on synthetically generated information labeling duties under amended IT Rules, aligning with Cyber Security Awareness Month outreach across ministries.
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CERT-In Demands Faster CVE Disclosures From OEMs After AI-Assisted Exploit Wave
CERT-In told global OEMs and software vendors to accelerate vulnerability disclosures and patch validation as AI-assisted exploit tools shorten attack windows on Indian enterprise networks.
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Infosys Topaz Agents Roll Out for Rural Bank Branches Under NPCI Sandbox Extension
Infosys Ltd. deployed Topaz agent workflows at two regional rural banks under a National Payments Corporation of India sandbox extension, automating KYC follow-ups and grievance triage without touching core payment switches.
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Malhotra Kautilya Address Warned NBFCs on Autonomous AI and Third-Party Reliance
RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra told the Kautilya Economic Conclave that AI amplifies cyber risk across borders, citing new 2026 directions for banks and draft model-risk rules for NBFCs.
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Yotta Activates First Blackwell B300 Tranche at Greater Noida Hyperscale Hall
Yotta Data Services switched on the first production tranche of NVIDIA Blackwell B300 GPUs at its Greater Noida hyperscale hall, part of a $2 billion supercluster pledge.
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IIT Madras and Google DeepMind Ship Tamil Fisheries Weather Radio Speech Model
IIT Madras and Google DeepMind released a compact Tamil speech model that reads cyclone and fish-landing advisories for coastal radio networks.
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Anthropic Opens Mumbai API Gateway for BFSI Clients Under RBI Outsourcing Rules
Anthropic began routing Mumbai-region API traffic through a local gateway partner so Indian banks and insurers can call Claude models under Reserve Bank outsourcing and data-localisation checklists.
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CAIK Launches in Thiruvananthapuram With Fifteen-Company IndiaAI Mission Cohort
Kerala's CAIK hub opens Wednesday with Digital University Kerala as implementer and a first IndiaAI Mission cohort of 15 start-ups.
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IndiaAI Lists Gujarat Municipal Grievance Bot Under Open-Weights Pilot Terms
IndiaAI’s portal listed a Gujarat municipal grievance assistant built on open-weight Indic models, with inference restricted to state-owned cloud regions.
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IIT Madras Computer Vision Flags Bridge Damage Along Mandakini Valley Access Routes
IIT Madras researchers fed drone imagery into computer-vision models that flagged cracked deck segments on Mandakini valley access routes, giving Uttarakhand engineers a priority list after army teams reopened cloudburst-hit roads.
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NeGD Evaluators Weigh Domestic Model Grants After Vaishnaw's September Committee Meeting
The September review of domestic model grants has entered its final stage. The CoRover agentic AI shortlist is a separate procurement, and the public record still does not show the scorecards.
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MeitY Shortlists CoRover and Kyndryl for Government Agentic AI Platform With DigiLocker MVP
MeitY's NeGD has shortlisted CoRover and Kyndryl to build a government agentic AI platform, with DigiLocker as the first MVP. The reported four-month build and twelve-month O&M timeline now meets the harder question: who audits ask, do, and escalate?
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ESET Survey Finds 85% of Indian Enterprises Faced AI-Related Cyber Threats in Past Year
An ESET survey of 400 Indian IT and security decision-makers found 85% faced at least one AI-related cyber threat in the past 12 months, from deepfake-enabled fraud to poisoned model plugins.
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MeitY Shortlists CoRover and Kyndryl for Agentic DigiLocker Bot Framework
NeGD’s 18 September evaluation qualified CoRover and Kyndryl for MeitY’s agentic AI framework, with DigiLocker as the four-month MVP plus 12 months of O&M; Cactus and NEC were disqualified, Moneycontrol reported on 23 September.
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Sarvam AI Releases Indic Voice API for Regional Call-Centre Pilots in Bengaluru
Sarvam AI opened an Indic voice API for Bengaluru call-centre pilots, targeting Kannada-Telugu-Hindi code-switching on outbound collections and utility bots with on-device latency budgets.
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HCLTech Ships On-Prem GenAI Stack for Public-Sector Data Centres in Noida
HCLTech deployed an on-premises generative AI stack for public-sector data centres in Noida, giving ministries retrieval-augmented assistants that keep citizen records inside sovereign racks rather than public cloud APIs.
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Nasscom Publishes Hindi–English LLM Benchmarks Ahead of MeitY GenAI Sandbox
Nasscom published Hindi–English LLM benchmarks timed to MeitY’s GenAI sandbox, scoring retrieval, summarisation, and code-switch handling so vendors cannot hide weak Indic performance behind English-only demos.
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MeitY Opens GenAI Sandbox for Indian Language Datasets on BHASHINI
MeitY opened a GenAI sandbox that lets startups train and evaluate models on curated Indian-language datasets surfaced through BHASHINI, with audit logs aimed at government procurement.
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Freshworks India Ships Tamil Helpdesk Macros for Coimbatore Textile Exporter Support Queues
Freshworks rolled Tamil-language helpdesk macros and SLA timers tuned for Coimbatore textile exporters who field buyer complaints across US and EU waking hours from shared support queues.
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Persistent Systems Embeds Yield-Prediction Copilots in Tata Steel Jamshedpur Blast Furnace Telemetry
Persistent Systems wired yield-prediction copilots into blast-furnace telemetry at Tata Steel’s Jamshedpur works, with human operators retaining veto power over any set-point recommendations the models emit.