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's indigenously manufactured Covid vaccine Covaxin, developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech (BB), will be delayed in its launch in the US market as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked Ocugen Inc, the US partner of BB, to pursue a biological Applications (BLA) path that would require additional clinical trials for the vaccine
Pakistan’s parliamentary committee on Kashmir chairman Shehryar Khan Afridi has directed the chief of Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to take legal action against Facebook over its "selective steps" against Pakistani and Kashmiri social media activists
Three Indian S&T-led small-to-medium enterprises/ start-ups have been selected to undertake joint R&D and technology transfer projects under the India-Russia Joint Technology Assessment and Accelerated Commercialization Program
Lifting its ban, Russia has allowed the import of rice from four Pakistani enterprises from Friday
Ride-hailing major Uber has announced to hire nearly 250 engineers for its Bengaluru and Hyderabad-based teams, as the company expands operations for its engineering and product work in the country
Samsung has unveiled its much-anticipated "The Frame TV 2021" with stunning and customisable bezel options starting at Rs 61,990 in India
Xiaomi India, the Indian subsidiary of the Chinese internet and smartphone major, has announced that its Mi 11X series of devices has witnessed a record sales worth over Rs 300 crore in just 45 days of its launch
Global medtech company Meril, based in Vapi, Gujarat, on Thursday announced its self-use Rapid Antigen Test for Covid 19, CoviFind, has received approval from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
Social media giant Twitter has written to the Indian government that it is making "every effort" to implement the new digital rules and it has appointed Indian officers residing in the country as required and informed that an update on compliance will be provided shortly
Oxfam India and Microsoft have joined hands to help strengthen the healthcare ecosystem to address the challenges that have come up with the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India and also to prepare for a possible third wave
An indigenously designed oxygen concentrator, which ensures high-purity oxygen supply, is now out in the market
In a major boost to mango exports from the eastern region, as many as 16 varieties of mangoes - including three GI certified Khirsapati and Lakshmanbhog (West Bengal), Zardalu (Bihar) - are being exported to Bahrain commencing Wednesday
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has invited Swedish firms to invest in defence corridors in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, saying that they can benefit from the unique incentives being offered by the state governments and the availability of a highly skilled workforce in India
Nokia has announced that CG NET will deploy its Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) solution as part of an extensive Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) rollout across the Kathmandu Valley
Opening a window of possibilities of boosting groundnut exports from India's eastern region, a consignment of 24 metric tonnes (MT) of groundnuts was exported to Nepal from West Bengal state
