National desk
The collective byline for national reporting that draws on multiple correspondents and desks across BharatScope.
The draft legislation would rewrite how public institutions collect, share and retain citizen data — consolidating a patchwork of departmental rules into a single accountability standard, and forcing a reckoning over who answers when records leak.
A district-level health survey shows facility counts telling only part of the story: travel time and clinic operating hours explain far more of the variation in whether people actually use nearby care than the raw number of facilities on paper.