India’s IT ministry has ordered Meta to immediately disable all Instagram advertisements and content promoting child sexual exploitation and abuse material, according to The Week. The company has seven days to explain how the ads were approved and to d…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi’s chip assembly and testing plant in Sanand, Gujarat. The facility will initially turn out 200 million chips a year, according to ANI, with plans to scale to 500 million. The…
The global race for AI infrastructure has become a contest of personal relationships. French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have emerged as its most aggressive practitioners, personally courting the heads of the world…
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has ordered WhatsApp not to launch its planned usernames feature in the country until further consultations are complete, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The ministry, known as MeitY, ha…
The Mumbai investment bank is considering raising fresh capital through new shares and stake sales, a bet on the strength of India’s public-listing pipeline. India’s capital markets have been busy enough lately to make the firms that arrange the deals …
Amazon spent years circling India’s quick-commerce market without committing to it. Investors have now decided the circling is over, and they have repriced the incumbents accordingly. Shares in Eternal, the parent of grocery-delivery leader Blinkit, an…
India’s Unified Payment Interface has grown to over 750 million daily transactions, and the head of the body that oversees it says AI will be central to reaching a billion. Dilip Asbe, MD and CEO of the National Payments Corporation of India, told Tech…
Dilip Asbe said that newer UPI apps could be more competitive with a viable commercial model
Amazon will invest an additional $13bn in India by 2030, the company said on June 25, lifting its planned spending in the country to $48bn over the period and routing the new money into the part of the business that now drives almost everything Amazon …