In ‘Accelerating India’s Development’, Karthik Muralidharan analyses India’s governance challenges, especially in delivering essential public services.
Preliminary work to set up Measurement Collection Units as part of Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022, done. Police officers say it would be a big push to crime-solving.
Exercise by Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation began as crackdown on small & medium drugmakers, but is being expanded to include major firms after complaints over quality control.
Absence of basic data, such as census, harms the country's statistical system & policy analysis. In such a scenario, CMIE, CRISIL, Skymet have become reliable sources for quality data.
India’s health data policies assume that enabling data sharing and interoperability will lead to desirable outcomes. But this approach comes with its own risks.
Despite growing passenger volume, 11 out of 14 carriers reported losses in 2023-24. IndiGo recorded profit of Rs 8,167 crore, which reduced to Rs 7.253 crore in 2024-25.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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