{"id":1044203,"date":"2026-10-17T07:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044203"},"modified":"2026-10-17T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:31:10","slug":"india-to-take-a-leap-in-quantum-technology-among-global-south-nations-secretary-umesh-waghmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/17\/india-to-take-a-leap-in-quantum-technology-among-global-south-nations-secretary-umesh-waghmare\/","title":{"rendered":"India to take a leap in quantum technology among Global South nations: Secretary Umesh Waghmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India is expected to take a leadership role in quantum technology among Global South nations, and the Centre is likely to prepare a blueprint for the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) 2.0, a top official said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first phase of NM-ICPS is ending in December 2027, and we are thinking of the second phase, which combines with physical artificial intelligence (AI),&#8221; Umesh V Waghmare, secretary, Department of Science &amp; Technology (DST), told ETTelecom, adding that the fine print would depend on the specific technologies and products to be demonstrated in the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India is expected to take a leadership role in quantum technology among Global South nations, and the Centre is likely to prepare a blueprint for the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) 2.0, a top official said. &#8220;The first phase of NM-ICPS is ending in December 2027, and we are thinking of the second phase, which combines with physical artificial intelligence (AI),&#8221; Umesh V Waghmare, secretary, Department of Science &amp; Technology (DST), told ETTelecom, adding that the fine print would depend on the specific technologies and products to be demonstrated in the coming year.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044203","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=1044203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044220,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044203\/revisions\/1044220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}