Author: Deshwale Technology Desk

Before we celebrate the rise of chatbot counsellors, let us be honest about why they exist in the first place. I have been covering India long enough to know what we do when a system collapses. We do not fix it. We improvise around it. We build workarounds that become habits, habits that become trends, and trends that get celebrated as innovation. After a while, we forget that the collapse happened at all. That is what is happening with AI therapy. And somebody needs to say it plainly. In recent months, a particular kind of story has been making rounds…

India built the world’s most enviable digital payments system on one promise: instant. Tap, confirm, and do money moves before you’ve put your phone back in your pocket. But that very speed, which made UPI a global benchmark, has quietly become a fraudster’s best friend. And now the Reserve Bank of India wants to slow things down, on purpose. In a discussion paper released this week, the RBI has proposed introducing a one-hour cooling-off period for all account-to-account transfers above ₹10,000 covering UPI, IMPS, net banking, and cards. It’s a modest but potentially game-changing intervention that could reshape how hundreds…

In a major step towards strengthening India’s electric mobility ecosystem, SRM Institute of Science and Technology has entered into a strategic partnership with Ather Energy through a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at bridging the gap between academia and industry. The collaboration marks a shift towards industry integrated learning, where students will gain direct exposure to real world challenges in the electric vehicle sector. At the centre of this initiative is the launch of the ‘Ather Forge’ Technology Centre on the SRM campus. The facility is designed to function as an innovation hub where students can develop practical skills, work on…

In a move that millions of Indian users have long been waiting for, WhatsApp has quietly begun rolling out one of its most significant privacy features to date. As of 8 April 2026, a limited number of users on both Android and iOS can now create and use usernames allowing them to message, call, and connect with others without ever revealing their personal phone number. The feature, which was first teased in reports from March 2026 with a planned global launch by June, has now entered its initial phased rollout. For India’s 500-million-plus WhatsApp users, the largest single-country base in…

Imagine this: It’s 48°C in Delhi. The fan feels like a hairdryer. You switch on the AC, breathe a sigh of relief… and somewhere in a coal-fired power plant in Chhattisgarh, another turbine spins a little harder. That comforting blast of cool air is quietly adding to the very heat you’re trying to escape. In April 2026, as India swelters under an unusually early and intense heatwave, millions are doing exactly that. Air-conditioner sales are booming. Yet the machines we’re installing to survive the heat are becoming one of the fastest-growing drivers of the climate crisis itself. This is India’s…

There is a specific kind of silence that falls over an Indian-American household when a son mentions he’s leaving a place like Georgetown or Stanford. It’s not an angry silence. It’s the sound of a thousand carefully laminated diplomas and parental dreams being placed gently and anxiously back in the drawer. Adarsh Hiremath and Surya Midha, both 22, know that silence intimately. They caused it. While most of their peers were stressing over summer internship applications and formatting their resumes with the perfect margins, Adarsh and Surya were building a backdoor out of the entire rat race. In April 2026,…

Imagine downloading a full 4K movie in under a second. In Dubai, that’s no longer imagination, it’s infrastructure. Most of us have made peace with the little spinning circle. The buffering, the lag, the video call that freezes right as someone says something important. We’ve accepted it as part of life. The UAE just decided it isn’t. In April 2026, the UAE became the first country in the world to commercially launch a U6GHz internet network, a technology so fast it makes today’s best 5G connections look sluggish by comparison. At peak performance, this network delivers speeds of 10 Gbps.…

डिजिटल दुनिया में जहां हर तरफ विज्ञापनों की भरमार है, वहीं युवा दर्शक खासकर Gen Z अब पारंपरिक विज्ञापनों से जल्दी ऊबने लगे हैं। इसी चुनौती को समझते हुए Snap Inc. और Kantar के एक नए अध्ययन ने यह दिखाया है कि ऑगमेंटेड रियलिटी यानी AR कैसे इस ‘ऐड फटीग’ से निपटने का प्रभावी माध्यम बन रहा है। ‘स्टेट ऑफ AR इन इंडिया’ नामक इस रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, भारत में 92 प्रतिशत उपभोक्ताओं का मानना है कि AR उनके ऑनलाइन शॉपिंग, सीखने और ब्रांड्स से जुड़ने के तरीके को बदल देगा। खास बात यह है कि Gen Z के 2…

Agilent Technologies has expanded its presence in India with the launch of a new Customer Experience Center (CEC) and office in Mumbai, signalling a deeper long-term commitment to one of its key global markets. The new facility aims to enhance customer engagement and provide advanced technological support to India’s fast-growing life sciences, pharmaceutical, and applied sectors. The Customer Experience Center represents the next phase of Agilent’s growth strategy in India. It brings together hands-on technology demonstrations, application expertise, and commercial operations within a single, integrated environment. During the launch, customers from sectors such as pharmaceuticals, biopharma, diagnostics, chemicals, food safety,…

India generates some of the world’s largest volumes of digital data. Yet hardly any Indian business recognises it as an asset on its balance sheet. That is not a minor oversight. It is a slow-motion economic risk. Ramesh Choudhary runs a mid-sized logistics firm in Nagpur. Over 14 years, he has built 340 employees, 80 trucks and routes across 11 states. His operations software logs 6,000 data points daily, covering delivery times, fuel efficiency, customer complaints, weather impacts and driver behaviour. Most of it sits unused in a server costing 18,000 rupees a month. When his bank sought collateral for…