Bihar Social Media and Other Online Media (Amendment) Rules, 2026 provide ₹10,000 per additional 1 lakh views after 30 days, capped at ₹1.20 lakh per video.

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National Waterway-4 (NW-4) connects Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh) with Puducherry through the Godavari–Krishna river systems, canals and the Buckingham Canal.

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AI Sovereignty: From Adoption to Independent Evaluation
Context: India aims to become the world’s “AI use capital,” using its linguistic diversity, digital public infrastructure, young workforce and startup ecosystem.

Core concern: AI success is measured through users, languages and adoption, but not through real outcomes, safety failures and social harms.
Strategic dependency: India’s AI ecosystem largely depends on foreign foundation models and compute infrastructure. Dependence becomes risky when India cannot negotiate terms or verify performance independently.
Meaning of AI sovereignty: It does not require building every model domestically; it means retaining the power to choose, test, regulate and set conditions for foreign and domestic AI systems.
Independent evaluation: AI must be assessed in Indian languages and real-life settings for safety, bias, human–AI interaction, labour displacement, loss of human judgment and other systemic harms.
Way forward: Use government procurement to enforce safety standards; establish application-layer testing sandboxes; strengthen post-deployment monitoring and grievance redressal; and fund independent third-party evaluators involving technical institutions and civil society.

Conclusion: India can become an AI use capital only by simultaneously developing strong AI evaluation capacity, ensuring that technology remains useful, accountable and socially trustworthy.

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