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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
TopicDigital India

Topic: Digital India

Digital wallets are making sure that Indian students get their scholarship on time

Scholarship disbursement was once a long, drawn-out process involving paperwork and months of back and forth has been drastically cut down using Digital Public Infrastructure.

UPI, unicorns, AI will power India’s digital economy. Focus on them for Viksit Bharat

Estimated at around $175 billion in 2023, India’s digital economy could grow to $1 trillion in three years, projections suggest.

MeitY, UP govt organise Digital India consultation workshop

The event in Lucknow focused on raising awareness about key initiatives under the Digital India Programme, including DigiLocker, Entity Locker, API Setu, OpenForge, myScheme, UMANG, and UX4G.

Rajasthan’s elderly are victims of ‘digital murder’. eKYC gaps leave lakhs without pension

Digital verification issues are excluding Rajasthan’s elderly and disabled from pensions, with lakhs incorrectly declared ‘dead’ or missing. There’s an embarrassing KYC-shaped hole in Digital India.

SubscriberWrites: Safeguarding personal liberty in digital India in the shadow of ADM Jabalpur

The 1976 ADM Jabalpur case, a dark moment in India’s judicial history, reminds us of the enduring need to balance state power and personal freedom as digital surveillance challenges grow.

3 years on, 30% of rural land parcels have Bhu-Aadhaar. Centre pushes for completion by 2026

Bhu-Aadhaar or ULPIN was launched in 2021 as part of land records modernisation programme. Among 28.72 crore listed land parcels, ULPINs have been generated for over 8.4 crore, data shows.

Our take on BJP’s Haryana win, J&K elections, & Ratan Tata’s death

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

India’s Skill India digital hub launched

The platform is a digital expansion of the skilling opportunities in India.

Modi turned obsolete institutions into modern-day digital platforms. Impact most visible in J&K

In 'The Art of Implementation', V Srinivas writes that under PM Modi, the governance landscape of India has radically changed in scale, scope, and learning paradigms.

On Camera

What would it take for a European reset to succeed?

Insulted and bullied by Donald Trump, European leaders are asking where they go from here. The right choice isn’t to kneel or fight back, but to disengage.

India & EU announce “mother of all trade deals”. This is why it matters

Two sides also announce signing of a Security & Defence Partnership, launch negotiations for an intelligence sharing agreement & explore India’s addition to Horizon Europe programme.

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.