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.
The monetary policy committee kept the benchmark rate unchanged for a fourth straight review, while sharpening its language around food-price volatility — a signal that markets are reading as preparation for an extended pause rather than an imminent move.
Power, land and water — not chip supply — are turning out to be the binding constraints on where India's AI-era compute gets built, and state governments are competing hard, and unevenly, to win the next wave of facilities.
Drainage systems designed decades ago for gradual seasonal rainfall are now meeting monsoons that arrive in shorter, far more intense bursts — and the failure points are concentrated in the oldest, lowest-lying wards of India's largest cities.
An industrial corridor proposal cutting through several districts has cleared its planning stage, but the compensation formula on offer to affected landowners — not the corridor route itself — has become the central point of contention ahead of public hearings.