India, Jan. 10 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday launched a national digital Improvised Explosive Device (IED) data management platform that will act as "next generation security shield against terror" and a comprehensive deterrence against all forms of bombings that take place in the country.

The national IED data management system (NIDMS) has been developed by the federal counter-terrorist commando force NSG with the help of Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) in Gandhinagar, IIT-Delhi, National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Indian cyber-crime coordination centre (I4C).

It is armed with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools for "accurately" studying all types of bombings.

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