India’s IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has issued a strong message to digital platforms, urging them to fairly share revenue with content creators. Warning that voluntary compliance is preferable, Vaishnaw said India may explore legal frameworks if platforms fail to reform their revenue models.

The minister raised concerns about eroding trust, the rise of synthetic and AI-generated content, and the need to protect original creators. He stressed that original content must be properly compensated to safeguard the growth of arts, science, and innovation in India’s rapidly expanding digital economy.

Indian Govt Warns Digital Platforms: Compensate Publishers or Face Legal Route

Union IT and Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw emphasised that intellectual property has historically powered societal progress. He further warned that if original content is not fairly compensated, then the growth of science, technology, arts, and literature will get stunted.

‘Share revenue with news publishers or face legal action,’ minister Ashwini Vaishnaw warns platforms

The Union Budget set aside the biggest ever outlay ever for Indian Railways for 2026 and announced 7 high-speed rail corridors connecting key economic centres across the country.

Electronics manufacturing grows sixfold in a decade; high-speed corridors to draw Rs 16 lakh crore: Vaishnaw

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw unveiled India's ambitious roadmap to democratise artificial intelligence. By offering government-subsidised computing power at a fraction of global costs and focusing on efficient, smaller models.

India offers subsidized AI computing at one-third global cost: Ashwini Vaishnaw at WEF 2026

Speaking at Davos 2026, India’s Minister for IT & Electronics Ashwini Vaishnaw tells WION that India is fully cognisant of the complexities involved in semiconductor production.

Davos 2026 | Vaishnaw: Cognisant of Complexities of Semiconductor Production

At Davos 2026, India’s Minister for IT & Electronics Ashwini Vaishnaw speaks exclusively to WION, outlining India’s big vision for technology, digital infrastructure, electronics manufacturing, and global innovation leadership.

Davos 2026: India's Minister for IT & Electronics, Ashwini Vaishnaw Taks to WION 

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw emphasised that India’s AI strategy is firmly anchored in real-world deployment and return on investment (ROI) rather than an excessive focus on very large models. He stressed that leadership in AI is not defined solely by building large foundational models.

Davos 2026: Ashwini Vaishnaw corrects IMF chief, says India among ‘top tier’ AI powers

On January 3, 2023, the Howrah–New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat Express in West Bengal was targeted in a stone‑pelting incident just days after its launch.

After Vande Bharat Sleeper launch, Ashwini Vaishnaw urges West Bengal to prevent stone attacks on trains

Over the years, Zoho has provided more than 80 cloud-based applications for businesses, covering areas such as email, customer relationship management, HR, accounting, project management and more.

What is Zoho? Ashwini Vaishnaw is moving from Microsoft/Google to THIS Indian platform for Office Work

Most existing hydrogen-powered trains globally feature engines with capacities between 500 to 600 HP, but India’s indigenously developed hydrogen train will surpass them all with a staggering 1,200 horsepower (HP).

India’s first hydrogen train to mark leap in indigenous, sustainable rail technology

India’s first bullet train service on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route, which will reduce travel time between the two cities to just 2 hours and 7 minutes (127 minutes), is likely to start very soon. 

Mumbai to Ahmedabad in just 2 hours! India’s first bullet train service to start very soon, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Vaishnaw also slammed the Congress and the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) parties for using the caste census as a political tool. India news

‘Committed to the values’: Centre announces caste enumeration to be part of next Census

India News: Trending: Discover India's breakthrough in high-speed transportation as Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw unveils Asia's longest-meter Hyperloop test tube at IIT Madras.

WATCH | Indian minister shares video of  410-metre hyperloop developed at IIT Madras

India News: The project, known as Avishkar Hyperloop, was built at the IIT Madras campus. With the help of this technology, 350 km can be covered in just 30 minutes.

Jaipur to Delhi in 30 mins: India's first hyperloop test track unveiled at IIT Madras

India news: Zuckerberg had said in a podcast with Joe Rogan that incumbent governments in all countries, including India, lost elections in 2024. The minister called the comments "disappointing".

'Factually incorrect,' Indian minister calls out Zuckerberg over false claim about 2024 election results

India Railways Minister Vaishnaw lauds ‘Bharat’s first hyperloop test track,’ watch video

Indian Railways ‘on high alert’, collaborates with NIA, police to stop rail track sabotage attempts

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Indian minister Ashwini Vaishnaw among TIME's most influential people in AI

Watch: Indian Railways conducts historic trial run on world's tallest railway bridge in Jammu & Kashmir

Google restores ‘delisted’ apps after Indian IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s intervention

‘We don’t think it’s a battle’: Indian IT minister about US-China chip war at Davos

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