While India dreams of becoming a new factory to the world, its manufacturers are struggling to find skilled workers, secure components and overcome red tape.

But if we don't act now, we will lose this edge," he emphasised. Chadha stressed that India's Make in India vision must evolve to focus on AI. "We cannot depend on foreign AI models. India must ...

"China has DeepSeek, the US has ChatGPT, Grok, but where does India stand in this era of Artificial Intelligence?" Chadha asked in the Upper House of the Parlaiment. He questioned whether India ...

Since 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government has been pushing for self-reliance, in particular with its "Make in India" policy. Our correspondents report.