{"id":1034783,"date":"2026-09-12T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034783"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:08:45","slug":"india-takes-the-ai-route-to-deepen-defence-partnership-with-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/india-takes-the-ai-route-to-deepen-defence-partnership-with-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"India takes the AI route to deepen defence partnership with Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India will help Sri Lanka establish an Artificial Intelligence (AI) facility for its Army, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced during a visit to Colombo, underscoring Delhi\u2019s push to deepen defence and maritime cooperation with its island neighbour. This move places AI and capacity-building at the centre of defence cooperation between the two countries. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a deck reception aboard INS Udaygiri in Colombo, Rajnath Singh said India remains a committed partner for enhancing the capabilities of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will help Sri Lanka establish an Artificial Intelligence (AI) facility for its Army, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced during a visit to Colombo, underscoring Delhi\u2019s push to deepen defence and maritime cooperation with its island neighbour. This move places AI and capacity-building at the centre of defence cooperation between the two countries. Speaking at a deck reception aboard INS Udaygiri in Colombo, Rajnath Singh said India remains a committed partner for enhancing the capabilities of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034785,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034783\/revisions\/1034785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}