With China and the US pumping in massive foreign capital into India’s digital economy, a top Indian investor and educationist has warned that the country could become a “digital colony” unless Indian businesses start investing in it.

Research by an Indian-origin scientist at the University of Rhode Island has shown that clothes and other wearable items could possibly sense illness and transmit data to a doctor in a distant clinic to monitor health and prescribe drugs.

An Indian-American researcher and his team have created life-size 3D hand models, complete with fingerprints, using a high-resolution 3D printer that can produce the same ridges and valleys as a real finger.

Automation threatens 69 per cent of the jobs in India, while 77 per cent in China, according to a World Bank research which has said that technology could fundamentally disrupt the pattern of traditional economic path in developing countries.

India lost its appeal at the World Trade Organization in a dispute over solar power failing to overturn a U.S. complaint that New Delhi had discriminated against importers in the Indian solar power sector.

The national capital will play host to India-UK tech summit in November this year which aims to bring together leaders in government, industry and research from both countries to broker new partnerships.

Connecting the world is definitely a noble cause, and had the net neutrality saga not unfolded the way it did in India, we would all be appreciating Facebook without a second thought for its latest initiatives.