Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform border surveillance, maritime security, intelligence gathering, missile defense, logistics, and cyber warfare. In a country facing simultaneous challenges from China and Pakistan, AI-driven systems could substantially improve decision-making speed and operational efficiency. Conversely, the absence of such capabilities could expose critical weaknesses during future crises.
Companies are beginning to realise that AI may not merely deliver incremental improvements of five or ten percent. In some workflows, it may produce tenfold or even hundredfold gains in speed and efficiency. That is the speed businesses are now trying to capture. The race is no longer about experimenting with AI; it is about integrating AI into operational systems before competitors do.
South Asia’s future depends on reliable infrastructure and trustworthy public services. Artificial intelligence—especially advanced technologies such as Graph Attention Networks—offers governments a powerful tool to reduce corruption in procurement, improve healthcare delivery, strengthen energy security and enhance public trust.
The battlefield is no longer defined by geography alone. It extends into space, into networks, into supply chains, and into the human mind. Conflict today is as much about disruption as it is about destruction; as much about perception as it is about position. Lines are blurred, between soldier and system, between civilian and combatant, between war and peace.
Sri Lanka is expected to sign for a $500 million credit line facility with India as it suffers a severe forex crisis and is unable to pay for energy imports beyond January next year. Energy secretaries of both countries are expected to sign a deal soon, said Sri Lankan Finance Secretary S R Attygalle
India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said the Biden Administration and leaders from the corporate sector in the US have welcomed recent economic reforms introduced by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Microsoft's leadership team, including its Indian American CEO Satya Nadella, were given the 2021 C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership at an event in Austin, Texas
Alpha Design Technologies has already indigenously manufactured and supplied equipment for a wide range of tanks, missiles, helicopters and various weapons and is indigenously developing Software Defined Radios (SDRs)
Adani Ports, India's largest private multi-port operator, has said that the terminals it runs will not handle cargo from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan starting November 15
After years of speculation, Tata Sons have finally won the bid to re-acquire national carrier Air India
The South Asia region is estimated to grow by 7.1 percent in the year 2021-22 amid the global surge in demand and targeted measures to contain the pandemic, the World Bank said in its latest report, adding the recovery, however, remains “fragile” and “uneven” across the countries in the region
Top American CEOs, who were at the forefront of galvanising the business community to help India during its COVID-19 crisis early this year, on Wednesday reflected upon the outpouring of support for their efforts to save lives
The Indian economy is open to innovation and investment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told UAE investors, and promised to keep up the reforms momentum in the economy
India's Adani Group has signed a deal worth $700 million with the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), the country’s state-owned port firm, and its local partner John Holdings Kneells PVC to develop and run the West Container Terminal (WCT) Port in Colombo
HCL Technologies, a multinational Indian IT firm, said it hired 1,000 IT professionals in Sri Lanka since June last year when the company started its operations in the island nation as the Rajapaksa government has been pushing the sector in which it sees great growth potential
The United States and India will co-host the fourth annual Indo-Pacific Business Forum (IPBF) October 28- 29 that will bring together leaders in government, industry, media, and non-profits from across the Indo-Pacific, a White House statement said Friday on the occasion of the Quad Summit
India's Defence Ministry on Friday inked a nearly Rs 20,000-crore (USD 2.7 mn) deal with Airbus Defence and Space, Spain to procure 56 C-295 medium transport aircraft which will replace the ageing Avro-748 planes of the Indian Air Force
India has great potential for attracting investments and manufacturing under the various programmes introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as companies try to diversify their global footprints, according to hi-tech CEOs who met him in Washington Thursday
Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his campaign to welcome more investments and enterprise creation in India with a meeting with wireless technology giant Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon in Washington on Thursday
