Entries at the national level: Acts and bills of Parliament, rules, Union ministries and regulators, and the Supreme Court of India.
Private member's bill in the Lok Sabha to set up a central AI Ethics Committee, bias audits and developer transparency duties
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The proposed successor to the IT Act, meant to rework safe harbour and regulate high-risk AI, which has stalled with no draft bill
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
SEBI's new advertising code treats AI-generated virtual influencers as celebrities whose ads need prior approval
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The Supreme Court's AI Committee proposes a national framework for AI in courts: human primacy, banned uses, disclosure by litigants, audits and an Apex Body
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
A draft that would make MeitY advisories part of intermediary due diligence on pain of losing safe harbour, and extend media oversight to user news posts
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
India's first binding AI-specific content rules: labelling, provenance and prevention duties for deepfakes, and a three-hour takedown deadline
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
From 2019 reporting circulars to 2025 rules on responsibility for AI tools and a still-pending responsible-AI framework
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The Supreme Court has declined to frame AI or deepfake rules by writ and, in September 2026, stayed a Gujarat High Court deepfake PIL at the Union's request
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Supreme Court sets aside NCLT and NCLAT insolvency rulings built on hallucinated precedents and declares "zero tolerance" for unverified AI citations
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Supreme Court inquiry into a trial court that relied on four AI-generated, non-existent judgments; declares such reliance "misconduct"
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Copyright Office order of 31 Aug 2026: AI-generated art can be original, but an AI system cannot be the author
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Indian Patent Office refused (15 Apr 2026) a patent naming the AI system DABUS as inventor; appeal pending in the Delhi High Court
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
India's Copyright Office registered an artwork listing an AI painting app as co-author in 2020, then issued a withdrawal notice in 2021
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
An unpublished advisory asking platforms to prioritise government complaints and to label manipulated or synthetic content on current events
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The Indian Patent Office's rules for how its own examiners and Controllers may, and may not, use AI tools, including a ban on entering unpublished applications into public AI
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The drug regulator's final guidance on licensing software as a medical device, with explicit requirements for AI and machine learning tools
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
MeitY's notice to X over Grok-generated obscene images, with a 72-hour action-taken report and a warning of lost safe harbour
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
MeitY's framework of seven 'sutras', six pillars and new institutions that governs AI through existing laws rather than a standalone AI statute
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
BIS lists 26 published AI and big-data Indian Standards adopted from ISO/IEC, including the AI management system standard IS/ISO/IEC 42001:2023
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
CERT-In's guidelines asking government and essential-services buyers to demand an AI Bill of Materials, with its AI security advisory and 2026 blueprint
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The Patent Office's 2025 examination guidelines for software and AI inventions, with a dedicated chapter on AI/ML, inventorship and disclosure
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
IndiaAI framework, launched 6 March 2025, defining the AI skills government officials need to adopt and oversee AI in public services
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
ECI requires parties to label AI-generated campaign material, with labels covering 10% of the screen, creator disclosure, record-keeping and three-hour takedowns
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
QCI's accreditation board sets the criteria under which bodies may certify organisations against ISO/IEC 42001, the AI management system standard
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
ECI's first deepfake-specific directions to political parties, requiring removal of deepfake audio and video within three hours during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls
Status checked Oct 14, 2026
The advisory that first required government permission for 'under-tested' AI models, drew a start-up backlash and was rewritten two weeks later
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
MeitY's first deepfake advisories, issued after the Rashmika Mandanna video, warned platforms that failing to act would cost them safe harbour
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The Telecommunication Engineering Centre's voluntary standard for testing AI systems for bias and issuing a fairness score
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
A sector-specific ethical framework for AI in health research and care, issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
NITI Aayog's two-part approach document setting seven principles for responsible AI in India, grounded in constitutional morality
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
PSA white paper (March 2026) mapping India's indigenous foundation model effort and the laws, standards and benchmarks that govern it
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The Principal Scientific Adviser's white paper that builds on MeitY's guidelines, rejects a standalone AI law and proposes technical controls across the AI lifecycle
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
PSA white paper (Version 3.0, 29 December 2025) on treating compute, datasets and models as shared public goods through a phased DPI approach
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
A government committee's proposal for a mandatory blanket licence with statutory royalties for training AI on lawfully accessed copyrighted works
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The Competition Commission's first market study of AI: concentration, algorithmic collusion, entry barriers and a voluntary self-audit framework
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
NITI Aayog Frontier Tech Hub roadmap proposing a national mission, Digital ShramSetu, to bring AI to India's 490 million informal workers
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
NITI Aayog's Frontier Tech Hub roadmap on how AI adoption and AI-led R&D could help India reach 8% growth and a USD 8.3 trillion economy by 2035
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Two 2025 committee reports urging watermarking, labelling, licensing of AI content creators and tighter safe harbour, with no formal government response found
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
RBI committee report setting out 7 'Sutras', 6 pillars and 26 recommendations for AI adoption by banks, NBFCs and fintechs
Status checked Oct 14, 2026
The draft report that proposed an inter-ministerial AI body, a technical secretariat and an AI incident database, and led to the November 2025 governance guidelines
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The telecom regulator's call for a cross-sector, risk-based AI law and an independent "AI and Data Authority of India" (AIDAI)
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
NITI Aayog's draft discussion paper testing its responsible-AI principles on facial recognition, with DigiYatra as the case study
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
A ministerial and secretary-level group that merges the proposed AI Governance Group with the Economic Survey's AI Economic Council, without the sectoral regulators
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
India's national repository of datasets, AI models and use cases, built under the IndiaAI Mission with permission-based access
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The IndiaAI Mission's programme to fund India-built large, small and multimodal models, from Sarvam AI to the IIT Bombay-led BharatGen
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
A non-regulatory hub under the IndiaAI Mission's Safe and Trusted AI pillar for AI-safety research, standards and testing
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The IndiaAI Mission pillar that empanels private GPU clouds and offers subsidised compute to startups, researchers and government bodies
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Government-funded AI research hubs in agriculture, health, sustainable cities and education, announced in successive Union Budgets and in October 2024
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The Union Cabinet's March 2024 five-year Rs 10,371.92 crore programme for compute, models, datasets, skills, startups and safe AI
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Union Cabinet-approved Rs 7,210 crore programme to build digital, paperless courts, with AI, OCR and blockchain among its enabling technologies
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
MeitY's public AI language platform for translation, speech and voice in Indian languages, and a core layer of India's digital public infrastructure
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The tools the Supreme Court uses or is building (SUPACE, SUVAS, transcription, listing, pendency tracking) and the AI Committee that now governs them
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
India's first national AI strategy: five focus sectors, CORE and ICTAI research centres, an AI marketplace and the 'AI for All' brand
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
How the Delhi and Bombay High Courts have used personality rights to restrain AI voice clones, deepfakes and chatbots
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Overview of incidents in which non-existent or misquoted authorities surfaced in Indian orders and filings, and how courts and the Bar have responded
Status checked Oct 15, 2026