Lieutenant Governor L.G. Saxena has approved five new districts in Ladakh—Nubra, Sham, Changthang, Zanskar and Drass—taking the Union Territory’s total to seven. The move clears a long-pending demand and is expected to decentralize administration, improve grassroots governance, and speed up public service delivery in remote regions, while also opening local growth and employment opportunities.
Karnataka is drafting a responsible AI framework to power “i-governance,” shifting from simple digitisation to data-driven, faster public service delivery. Minister Priyank Kharge says the state is testing AI in grievance chatbots, image manipulation checks for crop loss, and even livestock nose-print recognition. The plan also weighs privacy, sensitive sectors, sustainability of data centres, and building a full deeptech and supply-chain ecosystem.
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