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.
The total number of start-ups in India recognised by the commerce and industry ministry under its flagship initiative for fostering entrepreneurship and promoting innovation has gone up to an impressive 44,766 as of March 14 this year, according to official figures tabled in Parliament on Friday
India may buy natural gas from Guyana, if it produces it in excess, said Indian High Commissioner to Guyana K J Srinivasa
The Lulu Group International, owned by multi-billionaire Keralite businessman M.A. Yusuf Ali has, heeding the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to support the Kashmiri apple farmers, imported around 400 tons of Kashmiri apples to the Middle East
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Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems Pvt Ltd. (KRAS), a joint venture between India's Kalyani Group, and Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, on Tuesday rolled out its first batch of Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM) for the Indian Army and the Air Force
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZ), a subsidiary of India’s Adani group that operates more than a dozen ports in India, is set to acquire 51 percent stakes in the West Container Terminal (WCT) port of the Colombo Port
RemoteBase, a technology start-up based in Islamabad, has raised $1.4 million in investments from Silicon Valley investors, reflecting, what some feel, the growing tech ecosystem of Pakistan
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) on Saturday unveiled 'India FinTech: A USD 100 Billion Opportunity' report
Apple's iPhone contract manufacturer Wistron Corporation of Taiwan resumed operations at its mobile plant in Karnataka's Kolar town, state Industries Minister Jagadish Shettar said
The brand value of the Indian Premier League (IPL) went down for the first time in six years - by 3.6 per cent over one year
Bangladesh will procure 1.50 lakh tonnes of rice under direct procurement method (DPM) from India
A large number of Indian industrialists in Bangladesh turned their eyes to Tripura, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the Maitri Setu, a 1.9 km-long double-lane Maitri Setu (friendship bridge) over River Feni, connecting Tripura with Chattogram (Chittagong) seaport on Tuesday
In a major fillip to Cairn Energy, courts in five countries, including the US and the UK, have given recognition to an arbitration award that asked India to return $1.4 billion.
Sri Lankan authorities denied reports of delay in procurement of one million Covishield vaccines from Serum Institute of India and said the vaccines will arrive in the country by March and April
Trinidad conglomerate ANSA Merchant Bank has finally taken over Bank of Baroda (Trinidad and Tobago) Limited on March 1. The bank will continue to function as Bank of Baroda until month-end
