Nepal does not need to become Silicon Valley. It does not need to copy India, China, Singapore or Canada. Nepal needs an AI strategy rooted in its own realities: young talent, hydropower potential, local problems, growing IT services, tourism, agriculture, small businesses and a global diaspora.
The core data architecture — a national road safety data lake, AI-powered enforcement, multilingual public awareness — is replicable at any scale, in any South Asian language, in any South Asian urban or rural road environment. The technology does not need to be reinvented for Dhaka, Kathmandu or Karachi. It needs to be validated in Colombo and Delhi first.
However, 118 countries, mostly developing ones, do not participate in international discussions on AI governance, according to UNCTAD. This means that billions of people may live within rules they were not involved in making.
What we are witnessing today may only be the opening chapter. The next breakthroughs in AI may not emerge from software laboratories alone, but from nuclear reactors, cooling technologies, offshore infrastructure, advanced materials, and energy networks. The race to build intelligence has quietly become a race to master power and heat.
India-Bangladesh joint venture company Khyaati Leather Innovations BD Limited has signed an agreement with Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) to establish a garments accessories and bags manufacturing unit in Ishwardi EPZ, at Pakshay in Pabna district of Bangladesh, with an investment of USD 2.95 million, reports BSS
The United Arab Emirates has sought Indian investment in the pharmaceutical sector and promised to support any such venture
A Dubai-based Indian origin businessman, who got stranded on a trip to his village in Assam state after UAE banned flights from Covid 19 battered India, spent Dh 277,000 (USD 75,415.91) to charter a flight for his eight-member family to Dubai to save his business, his son has revealed
Messaging application WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against the Modi government's new digital rules effecting from Wednesday
Moderna, the American pharma and biotech giant, is planning to launch a single-dose vaccine for the Indian market only in 2022 as it has no surplus vaccines in 2021, media reports said
Hours before the expiry of the three-month deadline for compliance with itsIntermediary Guidelines, announced by the Indian government in February, global social media giant Facebook said it will comply with the new rules, media reports said
Amid travel fears that students receiving Covaxin may not be allowed in many countries as the vaccine is not listed, Hyderabad-based pharma major Bharat Biotech on Tuesday said regulatory approvals for its indigenously developed Covid-19 vaccine are in process in more than 60 countries including the US, Brazil and Hungary
Pakistan has approved ten agro and non-agro products for Geographical Indication (GI) tag in an effort to claim them as its brands in the international market
Seventy percent of cement factories in Nepal are operating on just 40 percent of its total production capacity, and the rest have closed their operations at all, reported The Kathmandu Post
Delectable mangoes from Bangladesh's Satkhira district will soon tickle the taste buds of people in three European countries – Italy, France UK
US drug major Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine is facing hurdles in entering the Indian market over demand for legal protection from any adverse effects that may follow after the use of its jabs, Indian media reports said
In a massive incidence of cyber attack, the data processor of Air India's passenger service system containing personal information of around 4.5 million customers have been leaked
Pakistani internet sensation Arshad Khan alias ‘Chaiwala’ (tea-seller) has announced he would open ten outlets of Café Chaiwala as part of a master franchise agreement with United Kingdom business investors
Ozonetel, a leading provider of on-demand cloud communication/telephony solutions catering to1000 enterprise clients across India, the US, and UAE, has integrated with Google to launch the US technology giant’s business message on its Cloud Agent platform
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), in a fresh notice, has asked WhatsApp to remove its updated privacy policy, asserting that it undermines the values of informational privacy and data security
