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New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Anupriya Patel, on Tuesday underscored the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India’s healthcare sector, asserting that technology must serve as a force multiplier to promote inclusivity and health equity.Speaking at the AI Impact Summit in the national Capital, Patel said the true strength of AI lies in its ability to bridge health inequities and support India’s governance model.“The real measure of the power of AI lies in the extent to which it is able to touch and address health inequities. That's the governance model we follow, in which AI becomes an enabler and a force multiplier, and it is able to take us closer to the goals of inclusivity and health equity,” she said.Emphasising the g...

Ahmedabad, Feb 17 (IANS) The Adani Group on Tuesday announced one of the world’s largest integrated energy-compute commitments, a direct investment of $100 billion to develop renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centres by 2035.The initiative will establish a long-term sovereign energy and compute platform designed to position India as a global leader in the emerging Intelligence Revolution.The investment is expected to catalyse by 2035 an additional $150 billion across server manufacturing, advanced electrical infrastructure, sovereign cloud platforms and supporting industries.Together, this is projected to create a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India over the decade."The world is entering an Intelligence Revolution more profound than any previous Industrial Re...

Pune, Feb 17 (IANS) Ten months after the Pahalgam terror attack that claimed her father’s life, Asawari Jagdale on Tuesday said she is still struggling to receive the government job promised to her family by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.Santosh Jagdale, along with six other people from Maharashtra, was killed in the terror attack in which 26 people had died. Following the incident, the Maharashtra government had announced financial assistance and government jobs for the next of kin of the deceased.Speaking to IANS, Asawari expressed frustration over the delay and said her family had to repeatedly approach officials and ministers without receiving any clear response.“It has been 10 months since the assurance of giving jobs, but I wa...

Bhopal, Feb 17 (IANS) Congress legislators, led by Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Umang Singhar, staged a protest on the second day of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly session on Tuesday over the deaths of people caused by contaminated water in Indore’s Bhagirathpura. The Congress MLAs held a symbolic demonstration in front of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue within the Assembly premises, carrying bottles filled with murky water and placards. They raised slogans against the state government, demanding justice for the victims and the immediate resignation of Urban Development and Housing Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya.Singhar said the deaths of people in Bhagirathpura after consuming contaminated water were “extremely sad and worrying”. He accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government o...

Chikkamagaluru (Karnataka), Feb 17 (IANS) Tension prevailed in Vijayanagar locality of Chikkamagaluru city on Tuesday following allegations that a house from a particular community had been targeted with continuous stone pelting for the past one week by youths of another community. Police have registered two separate FIRs in connection with the incident on Tuesday.The matter has also taken a political turn with the BJP warning that if the stone pelters are not arrested, the party would not sit quiet.Meanwhile, the Socialist Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has maintained that a small incident has been blown out of proportion and demanded action against BJP and Bajrang Dal activists for assaulting some youths from another community.Based on home owner Sudha’s complaint, a case has been regi...