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31. India's software exports touch $222 billion in 2024-25: ESC
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Increasing Exports
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India
The Economic Times
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- On 11 March 2026, it was reported that, In 2024–25, India’s exports of computer software and services, including ITeS and BPO, reached $222 billion, rising 11% from $200 billion in 2023–24, according to the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC).
- ESC Chairman Veer Sagar reported that exports grew through strong performance in IT software services ($147 billion), engineering services, and BPO, while Sandeep Narula noted the United States remained the largest buyer, importing over half of India’s software exports.
- IT software services accounted for 66.2% of exports ($147 billion); BPO services contributed $58 billion, while engineering services exceeded $11 billion with 13.99% growth. The US imported $117.43 billion, followed by the UK ($34.41 billion), Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands.
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32. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology launches AI Impact Startup Book
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Investment in Bharat by Bhartiya companies
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Delhi
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- The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology launched the AI Impact Startup Book at the India Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi. The book captures the scale, diversity, and growing global footprint of India’s artificial intelligence and deep-tech startup ecosystem.
- Highlighting the objective behind the publication, Additional Secretary of the Ministry of MeitY. that the compendium provides a consolidated repository of AI solutions being developed in India, enabling ministries, states and institutions to assess their real-world performance and adopt them for population-scale deployment.
- The publication presents insights from a large sample of startups and highlights emerging trends across sectors, technologies, and geographies.
- The study further notes the emergence of indigenous AI infrastructure, the growing integration of edge AI with hardware capabilities, and the transition of several startups from early-stage impact to global growth.
33. IIT Kanpur’s SATHEE Unveiled at India AI Impact Summit 2026
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Innovations in Bharat
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Delhi
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The Times Of India
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- SATHEE (Self-Assessment, Test and Help for Entrance Exams), an initiative developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur with support from the Ministry of Education, Govt of India, was featured in the prestigious "Real-World Impact of AI in Education" Casebook, unveiled at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
- The recognition highlights SATHEE's role as a large-scale, AI-driven learning platform that improves access to quality education and personalised exam preparation for students across India, particularly in underserved and rural regions.
- the team also announced the launch of the new AI-enabled version of the SATHEE platform, introducing advanced features designed to transform how students prepare for competitive examinations.
- SATHEE currently supports preparation for major national examinations, including JEE, NEET, CUET, CLAT, SSC, RRB, IBPS, and ICAR, and provides multilingual learning resources free of cost to students.
34. India unveils 3 sovereign AI models at Delhi Summit
Make in India / Atmanirbhar
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Investment in Bharat by Bhartiya companies
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Delhi
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Business Standard
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- India unveiled three major sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) models at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, marking a strong push for homegrown AI systems.
- The launches signal India’s shift from using global AI tools to creating its own infrastructure powered by local data, languages and computing. Bengaluru-based startup Gnani.ai launched Vachana TTS, a text-to-speech system capable of cloning voices and generating speech in 12 Indian languages.
- Homegrown startup Sarvam AI introduced two indigenous large language models (LLMs) trained specifically for Indian languages -- a 30-billion-parameter model and a larger 105-billion-parameter model.
- India’s sovereign AI initiative BharatGen announced the launch of Param2, a 17-billion-parameter multilingual mixture-of-experts foundational model.
35. Union health minister Launched BODH Platform at India AI Impact Summit 2026
Innovation and startups, ISRO/Defense/Water infrastructure/EV and other sectors
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Innovations in Bharat
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Delhi
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The Times Of India
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- Union health minister officially launched the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH) during the recently held India AI Impact Summit.
- The initiative, a joint venture between Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and the National Health Authority (NHA), was developed under a MoU.
- the platform as a cornerstone of privacy-first innovation, the director of the institute prof Manindra Agrawal highlighted BODH as a secure, federated ecosystem where developers can train AI models on-site without accessing raw patient data and returning only refined model weights to ensure total privacy.
- The architecture effectively resolves the ‘AI Quality Testing Trilemma' by simultaneously delivering coverage, openness, and reliability through the strategic use of central private test sets and the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission framework.
36. Maharashtra Launched AI Apps at India AI Impact Summit 2026
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Innovations in Bharat
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Delhi
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The Times Of India
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- CM of Maharashtra launched AI tools and oversaw the signing of agreements for AI implementation in various sectors in Maharashtra at the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi. The launch of Shiksha Saathi, an AI-powered WhatsApp-based assistant for Anganwadi workers across the state.
- The AI-enabled tool, developed by Rocket Learning in collaboration with Open AI, will provide guidance on developmental milestones and early learning, national curriculum-aligned practices, activities rooted in Aadharshila standards, and everyday strategies to foster positive learning environments.
- The CM also launched the app ‘Kumbhdoot: AI Agent for Every Pilgrimage', developed to provide guidance and assistance to devotees attending the upcoming Simhastha Kumbh Mela in Nashik.
37. India AI Summit 2026: 110 AI startups map India’s expanding digital innovation ecosystem
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Startups in Bharat
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Delhi
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- At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, a comprehensive new repository has been unveiled that profiles more than 110 Indian startups and non-profit organisations using artificial intelligence (AI) to address challenges at population scale.
- The compilation, titled India’s AI Impact Startups, was published by IndiaAI in collaboration with Kalpa Impact, and documents an emerging ecosystem of innovators whose solutions are not only technologically sophisticated but are also designed to meet pressing social and economic needs across the country.
- The repository is the first of its kind to systematically map startups and non-profits deploying AI in sectors as diverse as healthcare, agriculture, education, climate resilience, financial inclusion, urban mobility, and public service delivery.
38. Bihar govt signs pacts for investments worth ₹468 cr at AI Impact Summit
Make in India / Atmanirbhar
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Investment in Bharat by companies of other countries
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Delhi
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Business Standard
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- The Bihar government has signed initial pacts with technology companies and IIT Patna at India AI Impact Summit here for investments worth ₹468 crore across several projects, including a research park.
- According to an official statement, the Bihar government has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) worth ₹468 crore with several major technology companies as well as with IIT Patna.
- The state government has signed MoU worth ₹60 crore to set up Bihar AI CoE (centre of excellence). An MoU worth ₹250 crore was signed for setting up a research park at IIT Patna. Tiger Analytics will be Industry Partner and IIT Patna will be Academic Partner.
- In addition, MoUs were signed with GCC units and IT units such as Red Cyber ₹103 crore), GrowQR ₹30 crore), and CIPL ₹25 crore), among others under Bihar GCC policy 2026 and Bihar IT policy 2024.
39. Brandworks Partners With MeitY Startup Hub For AI Hardware Startups at India AI Summit 2026
Make in India / Atmanirbhar
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Investment in Bharat by companies of other countries
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Delhi
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SME Street
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- Brandworks Technologies, India’s fastest-growing design-driven, R&D-led electronics manufacturing powerhouse, today signed a Memorandum of understanding (MoU) with MeitY Startup Hub (MSH) at the India AI Summit 2026 to collaborate on strengthening India’s deeptech and AI hardware startup ecosystem.
- The collaboration aims to deepen innovation, co-create AI-led hardware solutions with early and growth-stage startups, and build scalable commercialization pathways in the Electronics and IT domain.
- With active support & guidance of MeitY, Brandworks will curate and manage a network of manufacturing partners, compliance advisors and ecosystem collaborators to support product engineering, scale-up and commercialization.
- Following the signing, Brandworks launched a new portfolio of AI-powered hardware products - the AI Voice Recorder, AI Speaker, and the AI Glasses, marking expansion into intelligent AI-native devices integrated with its proprietary LLM-backed AI infrastructure, aimed at accelerating enterprise, institutional and public-sector AI adoption.
40. Anant Raj, Submer Sign MoU For AI Data Centres
Make in India / Atmanirbhar
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Investment in Bharat by companies of other countries
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Delhi
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- Real estate and infrastructure developer Anant Raj has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with Spain-based AI infrastructure provider Submer to build AI-ready data centres in India.
- The agreement was formalised during the India AI Impact Summit 2026 and focuses on deploying energy-efficient, liquid-cooled data centres designed to support sovereign and enterprise AI workloads at scale.
- The partnership combines Submer’s liquid-cooling and modular data centre technology with Anant Raj’s campus development and infrastructure capabilities. The companies said the collaboration will offer an integrated model covering design, build and scalable operations of AI data centres.
- Under the agrement the Submer’s affiliated platform InferX will provide neocloud and inference capabilities, enabling customers to access high-density GPU infrastructure throug a unified framework aligned with India’s data sovereignty requirements.