The Department of Telecom has started the process of disbanding the Digital Communication Commission, formerly the Telecom Commission, the apex inter-ministerial body that made policy decisions on spectrum pricing and other financially…
Satellite communication (satcom) can deliver India's ₹1 lakh crore digital connectivity opportunity and connect 50 crore unconnected people, mostly in rural areas, Niti Aayog member Abhay Karandikar said at the India Satcom…
Niti Aayog, India's policy thinktank, claims no major economy has attempted to grow GDP nearly eightfold within a generation while reaching net zero within two generations. The Guardian editorial says the plan…
Several Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) are operating under temporary or incomplete leadership, with many board chairs drawn from outside the scientific community, according to a report in The…
The West Bengal BJP government, led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, has completed 100 days in office and launched a statewide outreach drive to present its performance directly to voters. Over the…
Punjab education minister Harjot Singh Bains on Tuesday said 3.6 lakh students have shifted from private to government schools since the Aam Aadmi Party government took office in March 2022. He credited…
India implemented twelve Five Year Plans between 1951 and 2017 as a centralized economic planning mechanism to ensure balanced growth and resource use. The Planning Commission, established in 1950, formulated each plan…
A new tracker by the Washington DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has found that out of 438 policies announced by Indian states since 2023, 414 (94.5 per cent) still…
Indian think tank NITI Aayog has recommended that Chinese companies be allowed to acquire up to a 24% stake in Indian firms without mandatory screening, in what would mark a major shift…
NITI Aayog has released a corrigendum for an Expression of Interest (EOI) titled 'Strengthening India's Deep-Tech Startup Ecosystem for Industrial Transformation'. The corrigendum, dated August 2026, amends the original EOI document. The…
