The integration of AI and Generative AI is not a distant aspiration — it is an active investment already reshaping how ports operate, how cargo moves, and how supply chains absorb shocks. For India and its neighbours, the imperative is clear: build the data foundations, governance frameworks, and human capabilities that allow intelligent mobility to reach not just the terminal gate, but every link in the maritime supply chain.
Companies like Google, Meta, and X constantly shape public opinion and thoughts, and store public data for commercial usage. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google host the cloud infrastructure on which states and businesses depend. These are not ordinary companies anymore; they have access to critical intelligence and data. And now AI companies like Palantir use this data for surveillance, intelligence, monitoring, and on battlefields.
While TiME FLiES travels from 18th-century Boston to 20th-century Michigan and 21st-century Provence, its soul remains anchored in South Asian philosophy. It argues that while AI may simulate the "heart and mind," the true "presence" of consciousness—the Turiya—cannot be reduced to code.
The same generative AI that allows criminals to craft perfect phishing emails in Sinhala (or Hindi, Bangla and Urdu) or clone a Chief Financial Officer's voice from a YouTube clip, can also detect those emails before they reach an inbox and flag that voice as synthetic before a payment is authorised. The technology exists. The question is whether South Asia's institutions will deploy it in time.
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
Nepal will sign a deal with India for technical assistance for testing of surveillance and radar systems installed at its airports
Sri Lanka has started for the first time an airborne oil exploration survey in its seawater for potential petroleum resources, Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said, adding the data and other information collected from the survey will help oil investors looking to invest in the island’s energy sector
Sri Lanka’s world-renowned tea industry--accounting for almost ten percent of its total exports--is staring at a disaster, industry players believe, as they anticipate a failing crop by next month due to the blanket ban President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has put early this year on the use of chemical fertilizers
India's Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday that the bilateral trade between India and the US has grown from $16 billion to $ 149 billion in the last two decades
The Nepal government has hiked taxes on two-wheelers automobile in its revised budget presented recently where it proposed an increase in excise duty and road development tax, raising the likelihood of decreased sales in the coming festive seasons
India and Colombia have signed a memorandum of understanding on space cooperation and cooperation in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals
The Indian government has approved a whopping $2.6 billion deal with Airbus Defence and Space S.A. Spain to buy 56 C-295MW transport aircraft, replacing Indian Air Force's aging Avro transport planes inducted some 60 years ago
The manufacturing sector in Nepal, earlier ravaged by the pandemic, has now almost returned to near pre-pandemic levels as the result of a boost in demand due to the festive season and the ramped-up vaccination
Fresh apricots from Kargil district in the union territory of Ladakh have for the first time in 35 years found their way to the international market
Despite the significant recovery in the country’s tourism industry, Moody’s downgraded the Maldives’ sovereign rating to Caa1 with a stable outlook from earlier B3, citing the drop in tax revenue collection and other factors
Pakistan has asked the World Bank to finalize its restructuring plan for the $200 million loan which the lender had approved last year for the locust emergency and food security project
