The prize pool for NIDAR 2.0 has been expanded to over ₹6.5 million, with winners gaining internships, incubation and cloud credits to help turn prototypes into commercial products. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), in collaboration with the Drone Federation of India (DFI), has launched the second edition of the National Innovation Challenge for Drone Application and Research (NIDAR 2.0), 2026-27, under its SwaYaan initiative. NIDAR 2.0 challenges students to build smarter drones powered by the VEGA processor, a family of indigenous microprocessors. Designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C‑DAC) under MeitY’s Microprocessor Development Programme, it is based on...
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The prize pool for NIDAR 2.0 has been expanded to over ₹6.5 million, with winners gaining internships, incubation and cloud credits to help turn prototypes into commercial products. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), in collaboration with the Drone Federation of India (DFI), has launched the second edition of the National Innovation Challenge for Drone Application and Research (NIDAR 2.0), 2026-27, under its SwaYaan initiative. NIDAR 2.0 challenges students to build smarter drones powered by the VEGA processor, a family of indigenous microprocessors. Designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C‑DAC) under MeitY’s Microprocessor Development Programme, it is based on...
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The Union Finance Minister stressed that India must stay ahead of the GCC curve by building a facilitative ecosystem. The evolution of India’s Global Capability Centre (GCC) sector from cost efficiency to capability leadership reinforces that global enterprises are no longer choosing locations based on cost alone, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. Addressing the Second National GCC Business Summit organised by CII in New Delhi on Thursday, Sitharaman stated, “The question is no longer whether India can host global capability centres. We have answered that decisively. The real question now is whether India can become the country from...
