China to curb exports of technologies such as Al, photovoltaics

China on Friday an-nounced a sweeping draft plan to restrict exports of more than 40 cutting-edge technologies, including solar manufacturing technologies, Al models, and some biotech platforms. 

Ripples from future

This year's Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded for work that is particularly crucial in the current global context. Implications from the work also have lessons for Indian policymakers, some of which have already been learnt, while others remain a work in progress. The crux of the research done by the laureates Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford is in quantifying the future-looking aspect of the consumption and pricing decisions made by households and companies, respectively. 

Jaishankar to meet Rubio, UAE FM in back-to-back visits

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will host his coun-terparts from the UAE, and the U.S. in Mumbai in two separate visits on October 19 and 20, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Friday. The meetings will discuss India's bilateral relations with the two strategic partners, as well as regional issues and ongoing con-flicts in West Asia.

'Private school teachers can be Census enumerators'

In a first, the Union govern-ment has expanded the de-finition of "any person" who could be appointed as Census enumerators authorising the appointment of private school teachers and members of "institu-tions, societies and trusts".

Al agents accessed data of Indian entities, says CERT-In

The Computer Res-Emergency ponse Team, India (CERT-In) said on Thursday that several Indian organi-sations had been targeted by Artificial Intelligence agents that were undergoing testing.

-which are Al agents pieces of code that act au-tonomously when given certain instructions unlike a chat-response back-and-forth with a chatbot - have been taking advantage of weaknesses across Indian organisations' cloud and web assets, and were ac-cessing information they did not need, and should not have access to, CERT-In said.  

L&T-built INS Samarthak inducted into Indian Navy

The Indian Navy on Friday commissioned INS Samar-thak, the first of two multi-purpose vessels being built by Larsen & Toubro (L&T), strengthening its capability to test and evaluate indigenously developed sen-sors and weapons amid an evolving maritime security environment.

The Guild unveils rocket testing facility near SHAR

Ethereal Exploration Guild (The Guild), a Bengaluru-based private space technology company, on Friday unveiled The Anchorage, a 150-acre rocket development and testing facility in Space City, about 40 km from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC-SHAR) at Sriharikota in Tirupati district. The facility will provide ground infrastructure for the development and testing of Razor Crest Mk 1 (RCMI), the company's fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle, according to a release issued by the company. 

India's crude imports rise 7% in September, bill surges 47%

India's crude oil import bill surged 47% year-on-year (YoY) to $15.4 billion in September, amid resurging conflict in West Asia, ac-cording to provisional government data. Data from the Petro-leum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) showed that crude oil imports rose 7% YoY to 21.7 million metric tonnes (MMT) in Septem-ber, even as shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) were about 8.5% lower although import bill stayed almost flat.