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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicDigital Governance

Topic: Digital Governance

India redefining need for regulations on data protection, BJP’s Baijayant Panda says at tech summit

Panda was giving keynote address on Digital Personal Data Protection Act at Global Technology Summit, organised by External Affairs Ministry & Delhi-based think-tank Carnegie India.

Inclusive, efficient, accountable — how to make digital welfare platforms more citizen-centric

Any digital system built to deliver social protection to citizens must accentuate the benefits of digitisation for citizens while suppressing any harm to them.

From digitisation to platformisation — how social protection schemes can be made more accessible

Social Protection Open Digital Ecosystems (SP-ODEs) can provide beneficiaries, government and service providers a unified, digital platform to better access welfare schemes.

Apps, software, tech-savvy team: How Karnataka is fighting Covid pandemic with technology

Karnataka’s Covid-19 war room has received the Union government’s e-governance award for use of information and communications technology in managing the pandemic.

India has cheap internet & good e-governance, but lacks good digital life quality, finds study

A global survey of 85 countries showed that Denmark and Sweden offer the best digital quality of life. India scored a mid-level 57 rank, but did well on two indicators.

First-mover Chandrababu Naidu now emulates Modi, Yogi with app to push digital Andhra

The app follows similar initiatives by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.