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The Digital India BHASHINI Division and Government eMarketplace have signed an MoU to enable public procurement in 22 Indian languages, targeting MSMEs and startups facing language barriers in government contracting.
UPSC has declared 13,343 candidates qualified for the Civil Services Main Examination 2026, down from 14,161 last year. Candidates must submit fee and cadre preferences by 28 June.
The Department of Posts has launched drone mail delivery in Himachal Pradesh, reducing transit time between Mandi and Rehardhar post offices from over two hours to seven minutes. The service is the first of 150 planned drone routes across Himachal Pradesh and Assam.
Four Panchayati Raj initiatives have won Gold and Silver prizes at the National e-Governance Awards 2026. The awards will be conferred at the 29th National Conference on e-Governance in Jaipur on 1–2 July 2026.
India and Nepal have launched a direct link between UPI and NPI, enabling real-time mobile money transfers across the border. The system went live on 6 June 2026.
The government launched Samadhan Didi, an AI voice chatbot that lets citizens file grievances by speaking in their own language. The tool automatically routes complaints to the correct ministry.
The CCPA has fined Vajiram and Ravi ₹7 lakh for misleading UPSC coaching advertisements. The regulator found 258 of 413 claimed toppers had enrolled only in a free interview programme after clearing earlier stages independently.
India's data centre capacity is projected to grow from 1.5 GW to 6.5 GW by 2030, creating nearly one lakh engineering jobs in AI, cooling technologies and digital infrastructure, Union minister Jitendra Singh said.
As artificial intelligence moves into Indian workplaces, farms and creative studios, technology leaders say the harder question is no longer adoption speed but whether users can trust these systems.
On National Technology Day 2026, technology executives warn that India's AI leadership depends not on adoption speed but on building trusted data, cyber resilience and user-centric systems.
