The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act), and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 have been notified on 13 November 2025, They provide a timelines for implementation of relevant provisions. In terms of the provision of the Rules, Digital Data Protection Board has been notified.
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India-AI Impact Summit 2026 reflects India’s growing role in global AI discussions
In line with Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision, the Government is democratising the development and usage of technology. The focus is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for solving real-world problems and ultimately improving lives across various sectors.
UIDAI records 231 crore Aadhaar authentication transactions in November, 8.47% growth over Nov 2024
Aadhaar number holders executed 231Cr authentication transactions in November 2025, clocking a growth of almost 8.5% as against the same period last year. It is indicative of the growing usage of Aadhaar, as well as the growth of digital economy in the country. The November 2025 authentication transactions are highest so far when compared with… Read more »
Kerala Embarks on Next Phase of Certificateless Governance with a 3-Day Developers’ Workshop by NeGD
The National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, in collaboration with the Government of Kerala, organised a three-day developers’ workshop at Thiruvananthapuram, from November 24 – 26, 2025. The workshop brings together key government departments and officials working in the technology divisions to review progress, set future expectations,… Read more »
Conference on “Harnessing AI and Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for Viksit Bharat”
The National Institute for Smart Government (NISG), in partnership with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India and the Directorate of IT, Government of Tripura, organised a high-level conference titled “Harnessing AI and Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for Viksit Bharat” on Friday, 5th December 2025 in New Delhi. EY was the Knowledge… Read more »
Electronics manufacturing grows sixfold, exports grow eightfold in the last 11 years
Electronics and semiconductors are foundational industries: Electronics and semiconductors are foundational industries. They are important for smooth functioning of nearly every sector of economy and have large scale impact on lives of citizens.
NeGD Organizes ‘Big Data and Data Analytics’ Programme
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under its Digital India Vision plans and implements its capacity building initiatives in Digital Governance. As part of the same, a 2-day training programme on ‘Big Data and Data Analytics’ has been organized at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur from November 26 – 27, 2025 by National e-… Read more »
IndiaAI and UN Women Issue Global Call for Abstracts on Gender-Transformative AI Solutions
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, and UN Women India have announced a global Call for Nominations for the Compendium on the Real-World Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Advancing Gender Equality. As part of the broader engagements leading up to the India–AI Impact Summit 2026, this collaboration aims to highlight measurable… Read more »
The e-Toys Lab inaugurated during the convocation ceremony of 2nd batch of 18 young engineers trained under MeitY’s Electronic Toys Project: Advancing efforts to build an inclusive and robust indigenous electronic toy industry ecosystem.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), C-DAC, Indian Toy Industries and LEGO Group celebrated the Convocation Ceremony of the 2nd batch of engineering graduates who have spent a year training under the project ‘Development of Electronics and IT-based Control and Automation Solutions for Consumer Electronic Goods (Toy Industry)’. The project is a tailor-made initiative of… Read more »
Government of India is democratizing chip design amongst Indian Universities with access to industry-grade Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and Multi-project Wafer (MPW) fabrication services
Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, handed over 28 chips fabricated at Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) Mohali (including 600 bare dies & 600 packaged chips) by students from 17 academic institutions under the Chips to Start-up (C2S) Programme. The chip handover ceremony was organized during his visit to the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL),… Read more »
