Is India ready for the AI revolution? The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, from generative AI tools to sophisticated machine learning algorithms, are transforming industries across the nation. From fintech's burgeoning use of AI-powered fraud detection to the agricultural sector's embrace of precision farming technologies, the impact is undeniable. This week saw a major breakthrough in indigenous 5G technology development, signaling India's growing prowess in the global tech landscape. But alongside this progress comes the crucial discussion surrounding data privacy, cybersecurity, and the ethical implications of AI deployment. How will India navigate these challenges and harness the transformative power of technology for inclusive growth? Explore the latest developments in Indian tech, from the rise of digital payments to the burgeoning startup ecosystem, and discover how innovation is shaping the nation's future. Stay informed with Abtak.com – your gateway to understanding the tech revolution reshaping India.
Over a billion Google Maps users use this powerful navigation tool every month. However, some individuals may not prefer using the map because they want to avoid leaving a digital footprint. A surprise or privacy issue might motivate such people to know how to use private Google Maps quietly. Here are some useful Google Maps privacy tips in detail: Google Map Incognito Mode is straightforward: It prevents an account from storing all the activities and places searched. Like private browsing in , the app doesn't store history or personalize recommendations. Activating this feature involves opening the app, selecting the profile picture, and turning on Incognito Mode. It also allows location sharing, thus ensuring that no one else can see real-time movements. This feature was introduced in 2019 and remains a topmost tool for those who value anonymity.
Guwahati, Jun 5 (PTI) The Assam Congress on Thursday demanded a CBI inquiry into alleged illegal stone mining in Karbi Anglong district in violation of a Supreme Court order. Addressing a press conference here, former Rajya Sabha member Ripun Bora also alleged that Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council Chief Executive Member Tuliram Ronghang was allowing illegal activities in the district in nexus with Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. "Large-scale illegal stone mining is taking place in the hills of Karbi Anglong in violation of the Supreme Court order. The SC had banned mining in and around K ...Read More >
New Delhi: Former Indian cricketer Suresh Raina was on Wednesday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in an alleged illegal online betting app-linked money laundering case, official sources said. Rains (38) was seen interacting with CISF personnel and Enforcement Directorate (ED) staff outside the agency's office in central Delhi before he marked his attendance at around 11 am. The federal probe agency recorded his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) as part of the investigation linked to a sports betting app (application) named 1xBet, the sources said. The fo ...Read More >
Driven by a young and tech-savvy population, India is rapidly embracing IoT-based connected devices, with adoption rates soaring by an estimated 30%. Samsung India highlights this surge, noting India's strong position globally in smart system adoption, contributing significantly to innovations like the 'AI Home' concept through its extensive R&D presence in the country. India is experiencing a rapid uptake of IoT-based connected devices with adoption levels rising at an estimated 30 per cent for ...Read More >
Mumbai (India), October 30, 2025: Mumbai (India), October 30, 2025: Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), through its subsidiary Reliance Intelligence Limited, has entered into a broad strategic partnership with Google to fast-track the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across India. The collaboration aims to empower consumers, enterprises, and developers by aligning with Reliance's AI for All mission -- a vision to make advanced intelligence tools accessible to every Indian. This alliance combines Reliance's vast digital infrastructure, customer reach, and technological ecosystem with Go ...Read More >
Speaking at IIT Bombay's Techfest 2024, Mr Adani, the 27-year old younger son of infrastructure magnate Gautam Adani, said the future of technology is both scary and exciting. India cannot stay out of global technological race, said Jeet Adani. Mumbai: India cannot stay out of global technological race and should build capabilities that will keep it at the top while remaining vigilant against its misuse, said Jeet Adani, Director, Adani Airport Holdings Ltd. Speaking at IIT Bombay's Techfest ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Google has introduced Doppl, a new experimental app from Google Labs that helps users visualise how an outfit might look on them. The application builds upon the virtual try-on feature of Google Shopping, announced in May 2025, and makes it easy for users to explore their style by making it easy to see any outfit on a digital, animated version of themselves. In addition to letting users try on outfits by uploading a photo or screenshot, just like Google Shopping, the new Doppl app comes with additional experimental features, including the ability to convert static images into dynam ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Sunday arrested Aaryan Singh alias Aaryan Singh Chhabra, a key accused in the Falcon invoice discounting scam, which defrauded 4,065 victims of over Rs 792 crore. CID chief Charu Sinha said Aaryan, the COO of Falcon Invoicing, was closely involved with the company's MD, Amar Deep Kumar, and other accused in luring depositors and issuing fake receipts. He is believed to have collected Rs 14.35 lakh in "strategic deposits" and diverted Rs 1.62 crore from Falcon's funds into his personal account. After the scam came to light, Aaryan fled to ...Read More >
Mumbai, Oct 8 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched the 'Mumbai One' mobile app which enables commuters to book a single QR-based digital ticket usable across Metro, Monorail, buses and local trains in the city and surrounding regions. Described as India's first integrated common mobility app, it will do away with the need for multiple paper tickets or separate bookings, officials said. The app, developed for the entire Mumbai Metropolitan Region, will be available for downloading from 5 am on Thursday, they added. Commuters, however, will not be able to book 'season' or ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 30 (ANI): Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), through Reliance Intelligence Limited, and Google today announced an expansive strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across India , "empowering consumers, enterprises, and developers in line with Reliance's AI for All vision". This collaboration brings together Reliance's "unmatched scale, connectivity, and ecosystem reach with Google's world-class AI technology", a release said. Together, these initiatives are aimed at democratising AI access and strengthening the dig ...Read More >
India is the second-biggest smartphone market with 730 million devices. On average, Indians consume 21 gigabytes of data each month, paying 9.2 cents per gigabyte, one of the world's lowest mobile data rates.OpenAI, Google and Perplexity have begun an unprecedented fight for artificial intelligence users in India, rolling out freebies in a strategy seen as a way to harvest troves of multilingual training data in the world's most populous nation. India is the second-biggest smartphone market with ...Read More >
MUMBAI: It looked like a message, but it behaved like a mole. Meta has warned around 200 users most of them in Italy after uncovering a targeted spyware campaign that weaponised a fake version of WhatsApp to infiltrate devices. The attack, first reported by Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, relied on classic social engineering with a modern twist: persuading users to download an unofficial WhatsApp clone embedded with surveillance software. The malicious application, believed to be developed by Italian firm SIO through its subsidiary ASIGINT, was designed to mimic the real app closely enough ...Read More >
Pune: The Indian Gig Workers' Front on Saturday evening suspended the ongoing strike of cabs and autorickshaws operating on applications till Tuesday, after leaving many commuters, including those arriving at the airport on Saturday morning, hassled. Keshav Kshirsagar, the president of the front, said, "We have a meeting on Tuesday with senior officials of the state transport department. If its decisions don't meet our expectations, the strike will resume." Several commuters had a harrowing experience on roads on Friday and in the early hours of Saturday. Cabs and autos were hard to come by. T ...Read More >
New Delhi: An individual who is in politics must be thick-skinned, but a distinction has to be made between satire and defamation, Delhi High Court said on Tuesday.Justice Amit Bansal made the observation while hearing an application by BJP functionary Gaurav Bhatia. The petitioner had sought the removal of "defamatory" content from social media over his appearance on a TV news show earlier this month, where he was reportedly seen wearing a kurta "without any pants/pyjama."Bhatia told the court t ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Dec 12 (PTI) Ride-hailing app Uber on Thursday launched 'Uber Moto Women,' a first-of-its-kind service in Bengaluru offering women-only bike rides, the company said. In a statement, Uber said that this on-demand two-wheeler service connects female riders with female drivers and is designed to address women's safety and mobility needs while "empowering female drivers with flexible earning opportunities". "Developed based on feedback from women riders and drivers, Uber Moto Women offers a safe, affordable, and convenient commute option for women who prefer to ride with female driver ...Read More >
Lucknow: Pocket knife, hair clips, and dhoti. These were the 'surgical tools' with which an army doctor helped a woman deliver a baby at the Virangana Laxmibai Jhansi railway station on Saturday afternoon. Major Rohit Bachwala, 31, posted at Jhansi Military Hospital, was heading to Hyderabad via Bengaluru on a month-long leave to reunite with his family.While waiting for his train at the railway station, he saw a pregnant woman in severe pain on the footover bridge. Acting quickly, Rohit used his pocket knife and improvised materials like hair clips and dhoti to assist in her delivery. Railway ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued notices to Google and Meta in connection with its investigation in online betting app cases. The tech giants have been summoned for questioning on July 21, as per the notices served on Saturday. This indicates that the agency is expanding the scope of its investigation in the matter that has already seen numerous celebrities and influencers come under the scanner for promoting alleged illegal gambling platforms. "Both Google and Meta have allegedly actively facilitated the promotion of betting applications that are currently under invest ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking people in Odisha, Assam and Delhi after being branded as illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators, the Special Intensive Review (SIR) and the necessity of Opposition unity on these issue are likely to be the important matters that would be raised by the Trinamool Congress in the meeting of the INDIA Bloc this evening. The meeting will be attended virtually by the Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party's Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, as decided by the party leadership at the last moment. "The harassment of Ben ...Read More >
Airbnb is enhancing travel experiences with new social features for its Experiences. Travellers can now see who else is joining, message them, and reconnect with past contacts. Smarter search options and flexible payment plans, including a "Reserve Now, Pay Later" facility, are also being rolled out. These updates aim to make travel more personal and convenient for everyone. Global travel platform Airbnb on Wednesday announced a host of new consumer-centric updates aimed at enhancing traveller e ...Read More >
New Delhi: Appellate tribunal NCLAT on Monday clarified that its order in the WhatsApp matter on privacy and consent safeguards also applies to user data collection and sharing for non-WhatsApp purposes, including non-advertising and advertising.Passing an order over an application moved by CCI seeking clarification over the previous order passed by NCLAT, the appellate tribunal said, "Appellant (WhatsApp and Meta) cannot assert unilateral or open-ended rights over user data."We had clearly held that 'users must retain the right to decide what data is collected, for which purposes and for how ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has extended the deadline for implementing SIM-binding by over-the-top (OTT) platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat, Signal and Arattai to December 31 following industry pushback. It has also rolled back the mandate requiring web and desktop sessions of OTT platforms to automatically log out within six hours and require re-authentication through QR code pairing. Instead, it has adopted a risk-based approach, where sessions must be terminated immediately only in cases of suspected fraud, officials told ET. Platform players said enabli ...Read More >
Kochi: A quiet techie from Muvattupuzha, who once worked with top engineering firms, has turned out to be the mastermind behind India's most prolific darknet drug syndicate. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) unmasked him after months of surveillance and a well-timed raid. Though involved in drug trafficking for over six years, the 35-year-old was active in darknet operations only for the past two. The NCB had identified his role in operating 'Ketamelon', which the agency has dubbed as India's most prolific darknet syndicate, a month and a half ago. The agency waited for strong evidence evide ...Read More >
Nizamabad: Residents along the Nizamabad and Rajanna Sircilla district border are on edge after repeated sightings of a tiger, identified by its pugmarks as "S12." The forest department has stepped up efforts to track the animal's movements, deploying additional camera traps deep inside the reserve forests. On Thursday, a calf was found dead in Pakala village of Sirikonda mandal, prompting fears of another tiger attack. However, following an onsite inspection, district forest officer B. Nikitha and divisional forest officers Bhavani Shanker and Ramakrishna confirmed the kill was made by a leo ...Read More >
New Delhi, August 29: Financial services major Paytm on Friday clarified that Google Play's recent notification on unified payments interface (UPI) handle changes was incomplete and may have created confusion. The company emphasised that there is no disruption to UPI payments on Paytm and both consumer and merchant transactions remain seamless. The update is relevant only for recurring payments such as subscription billing. "This means that if a user was paying for YouTube Premium or Google One storage or to any recurring platform through Paytm UPI, they will simply need to change their old @ ...Read More >
A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran took note of the submissions of lawyer Virag Gupta, appearing for the CASC, on Thursday and agreed to hear the PIL on October 17. The plea has sought a direction to union ministries of Electronics and Information Technology, Information and Broadcasting, Finance and Youth Affairs and Sports "to do a harmonious interpretation of provisions of Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 and laws made by State Legislatu ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 3: For millions of Indians travelling abroad each year, one of the first challenges after landing has nothing to do with immigration queues or luggage belts. It is the scramble for mobile connectivity -- navigating unfamiliar telecom stores, paying steep roaming charges, or going without data until hotel Wi-Fi becomes available. A rapidly maturing technology is now poised to make that experience obsolete. Also Read | Airline Seat Policy Rollback: Govt Suspends 60% Free Seat Selection on Flights After FIA and Akasa Air Raise Concerns. The travel eSIM -- a digital SIM ...Read More >
India's next space hero is here. It's Shubhanshu Shukla.In a historic leap for India's space exploration, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is set to become the first Indian astronaut to travel to the International Space Station (ISS). Scheduled for launch on June 10, aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket as part of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), Shukla's journey will make history as he becomes the first Indian astronaut to travel to the ISS.Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) is a pioneering private spaceflight mission that will not only send India's first private astronaut to space but also mark the return to human spa ...Read More >
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 10: NimbleEdge, the on-device AI platform built for performance, privacy, and portability, today announced the global launch of its on-device agentic AI platform 'DeliteAI'. It is the first open-source infrastructure that enables developers to build, deploy, and run fully customized AI-native experiences directly on smartphones without relying on the cloud. Also Read | Sex Racket Busted in Pune: Police Raid 3 Spas in Baner, Viman Nagar and Dhanori; 23 Women Rescued Including Foreign Nationals and Minors (Watch Video). With the launch of DeliteAI, NimbleEdg ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a significant development in the global AI race, Aravind Srinivas-led Perplexity AI has surpassed OpenAI's ChatGPT to take the top spot among free apps on the Apple App Store. The abrupt surge follows a strategic alliance with telecom operator Airtel, which now provides its customers with free access to the premium Perplexity Pro subscription, which costs Rs 17,000 a year. Access to several state-of-the-art AI models, such as GPT-4.1, Claude, Grok 4, and image generation tools, is made possible by Perplexity Pro. Additionally, it gives non-paying users ...Read More >
NewsVoir New Delhi [India], October 1: Ai+ Smartphone today announced the launch of its latest innovation, the NxtPrivacy Dashboard. The feature gives users real-time visibility and control over how apps access sensitive data and is rolling out through a software update to all Ai+ Pulse 4G & Nova 5G devices. It is the first built-in privacy control for smartphones in India. India has more than 650 million smartphone users. On average, each device carries 80 to 120 apps, many of which request permissions for the microphone, camera, or location, often continuing in the background without expli ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) on Thursday announced an expansive strategic partnership between Google and its artificial intelligence (AI) focused subsidiary, Reliance Intelligence Limited, to accelerate AI adoption across India. Under the collaboration, Google, in partnership with Reliance Intelligence, will begin rolling out Google's AI Pro plan with the latest version of Google Gemini to eligible Jio users free of charge for 18 months. This offer includes higher access to Google's most capable Gemini 2.5 Pro model in the Gemini app, higher limits to ...Read More >