India bets big on quantum technology

[BL33D]

Latest budget includes more than a billion dollars in funding for quantum computing, communications and cryptography.

Quantum technology has been given a massive boost in India’s latest budget, receiving 80 billion rupees (US$1.12 billion) over five years as part of a new national quantum mission.

India’s considerable investment in the field places it alongside the United States, Europe and Russia. In December 2018, US President Donald Trump signed a bill to invest US$1.2 billion over five years in a national quantum initiative, and in 2016, Europe pledged US$1.13 billion
for quantum technologies. Russia is also spending the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars on quantum technologies.

India’s investment, to be administered by the ministry of science and technology, is a considerable increase on past commitments. In 2018, a quantum-technology research programme received US$27.9 million over five years, as part of the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems.

Disruptive technologies
Ashutosh Sharma, secretary of the department of science and technology in Delhi, says India’s quantum research is “solid on the theoretical side, but we need to build infrastructure and experimental facilities, we need to build our capacity”. The new mission will oversee the development of quantum technologies for communications, computing, materials development and cryptography. It will coordinate the work of scientists, industry leaders and government departments, says Sharma.

For a long time, the potential for quantum-related research was not really recognized in India, says Urbasi Sinha, a physicist at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, one of the earliest institutes in the country to undertake research in the field. “The funding boost now will ensure that India can make significant contributions in these disruptive technologies,” she says.

Overall, India’s science ministry, which oversees the department of science and technology; biotechnology; and scientific and industrial research, received 144 billion rupees in the 2020–21 budget, a 10.8% increase over promised funds in the 2019–20 budget.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00288-x

 

[khansaheeb]

Seems India is always one step ahead of Pakistan, congratulations to India for this forward thinking , even though it will jeopardise Pakistan's security.

 

[Mugen]

Seems India is always one step ahead of Pakistan, congratulations to India for this forward thinking , even though it will jeopardise Pakistan's security.

Gotta 2nd this. Pakistanis are too complacent.

 

[Zane_K]

Need world class technology campuses set up around the country offering scholarships, on site accommodation. Basically the best facilities possible to attract the most creative and best candidates around. I know it’s easy said than done & I did hear about the P.M making similar statements. This one solution we all know is definitely needed.

 

[PAKSpecialForces]

Need world class technology campuses set up around the country offering scholarships, on site accommodation. Basically the best facilities possible to attract the most creative and best candidates around. I know it’s easy said than done & I did hear about the P.M making similar statements. This one solution we all know is definitely needed.

Despite that, ONLY the Western Countries, Russia and China can invent and pioneer those advanced technologies. EVERY OTHER country simply buys it from these nations. Nothing more.

 

[Zane_K]

Despite that, ONLY the Western Countries, Russia and China can invent and pioneer those advanced technologies. EVERY OTHER country simply buys it from these nations. Nothing more.

You are not wrong.
The thing is I believe that a nation such as Pakistan with a young population can achieve. If given honest support , real solid long term goals coupled with excellent educational institutions.
Use whatever means at their disposal to acquire ‘knowledge’ ..copy, borrow or steal.
The untapped brightest of Pakistan are well capable .. if given a framework which nurtures their potential.
Is this wishful thinking ? ..maybe it is, though this is the long term route .. if we want our own M.I.T , Berkeley or Oxford Uni.

 

[GumNaam]

As usual, we'll match them outta the blue when they least suspect it.

 

[Zane_K]

As usual, we'll match them outta the blue when they least suspect it.

Eh?

 

[That Guy]

Not really. indians have NEVER EVER invented ANY advanced sciences or technologies. Their research and progress is COMPLETELY dependent on the Science, Technology and inventions of the WHITE races of Europe, the West and Russia. For that reason, we can always match and even surpass them. It's the SAME reason why our nuclear weapons program completely nullified the indian military and there was NOTHING they could do about it despite being more than 7x bigger than us and having the full-backing of the West and Russia. Also, the racial IQ of the indian race is too low for them to ever be a major scientific or technological powerhouse:

http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/average-iq-by-country/

WHITE races of Europe

Has nothing to do with being white. There are just as many dumb white people as there are in every other ethnicity.

If you think skin color makes you somehow smarter, or dumber, then you're mistaken.

 

[BL33D]

Has nothing to do with being white. There are just as many dumb white people as there are in every other ethnicity.

If you think skin color makes you somehow smarter, or dumber, then you're mistaken.

That guy just projected his low IQ to entire non-white population. Racism on a global scale.

 

[Zane_K]

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^^^ ask mishta fantashtik boombashtik chai over here...heck tried to pull a quantum vedic tikinaalijy stunt on us, and we ALL know how that turned out for him now don't we?

Don’t know of this guy...I’m sure I’ve seen him on tv.. he’s a politician right?
What’s his name ? ..so I can look him up

 

[PAKSpecialForces]

You are not wrong.
The thing is I believe that a nation such as Pakistan with a young population can achieve. If given honest support , real solid long term goals coupled with excellent educational institutions.
Use whatever means at their disposal to acquire ‘knowledge’ ..copy, borrow or steal.
The untapped brightest of Pakistan are well capable .. if given a framework which nurtures their potential.
Is this wishful thinking ? ..maybe it is, though this is the long term route .. if we want our own M.I.T , Berkeley or Oxford Uni.

Then we need to promote a high IQ culture rather than religion. Like the Chinese and Japanese have done.

Has nothing to do with being white. There are just as many dumb white people as there are in every other ethnicity.

If you think skin color makes you somehow smarter, or dumber, then you're mistaken.

So why is it that ONLY the White and Far Eastern races have invented and pioneered ALL the advanced technologies and sciences? Why is it that ONLY White people invented Cars, Aeroplanes, Submarines, Tanks, Jets, Fighter Jets, Computers, the Internet, Space Technology, Modern Medicine etc? Why can't 1.4 billion indians do the same? There are more indians than White people on this earth yet they have invented NOTHING? Why is that?

 

[That Guy]

So why is it that ONLY the White and Far Eastern races have invented and pioneered ALL the advanced technologies and sciences? Why is it that ONLY White people invented Cars, Aeroplanes, Submarines, Tanks, Jets, Fighter Jets, Computers, the Internet, Space Technology, Modern Medicine etc? Why can't 1.4 billion indians do the same? There are more indians than White people on this earth yet they have invented NOTHING? Why is that?

The fact you're making such a stupid comment, and have no idea how history works, is a testament in and of it self to just how lazy your comment is.

You think technology started when white people started inventing things?

Do you not know what the dark ages of europe were? Or the golden age of Islam?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

Pythagoras himself traveled to Ancient India, to study under hindu sages

https://books.google.ca/books?id=A8...ir_esc=y&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Pythagoras&f=false

Here is a list of things Indian have invented...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_discoveries

Modern medicine finds its roots to the golden age of Islam, especially things like surgery.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...2/muslim-medicine-scientific-discovery-islam/

Here is are two incomplete lists of black-American inventors and their invention, all of whom were and are smarter than you.

https://thinkgrowth.org/14-black-inventors-you-probably-didnt-know-about-3c0702cc63d2

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_inventors_and_scientists

Here is a list of Pakistani inventions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pakistani_inventions_and_discoveries

Most things you attribute to white people would not exist if not for the research of the brown skinned arab or indian, or the black man.

You're not white, so stop pretending you're white. Acknowledge the fact that you're a brown skinned man.

Whether you like it or not, you have more in common with the indian than you do with the white man. The white man looks at you with the same contempt that you look at the Indian with.

Stop it.

@jaibi @Nilgiri

 

[That Guy]

Lol.........I could't give a flying F**K about what White people think of me. They mean nothing to me. I'm just stating the facts. If indians invent a lot of things like you say they do, then why do they have to buy ALL their advanced weapons systems from the White nations like Russia and America? Why can't 1.4 billion indians make it themselves? Do White nations but their advanced weapons systems from india?

If they mean nothing to you, you wouldn't put them on such a high pedestal, with false claims.

Even the US imports defense equipment, your argument is dumb.

You're comparing nationalistic fervor that some Indians have, with your own nationalistic fervor, not with facts.

I gave you links that prove you wrong, and the fact that you continue to say that your completely disproved, blatant lies are facts, shows that you are not interested in an intellectual debate, nor a intellectual honesty.

You're basically claiming that your feelings are the same as facts.

 

[Krptonite]

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You're basically claiming that your feelings are the same as facts.

That about sums it up for a lot of posters here.

Ignore him, he's not interested in moving the discussion forward.