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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicDigitisation

Topic: Digitisation

How Centre’s NAKSHA scheme will overhaul outdated urban land records, with drones & digital maps

Karnataka, Maharashtra & Gujarat have effective urban land records systems, but most cities struggle with old data & many agencies. A plan to digitise land records in 150 cities will help untangle the web.

Girish Karnad to Sai Paranjpye, why Indian icons have donated to Ashoka University’s archive

Ashoka University’s archive is India’s first within a private university. It’s slowly becoming a favourite destination for eminent personalities looking to preserve their legacies.

Hamilton Studios is racing to save Mumbai’s post-Partition faces. UK archivists are helping

Maharajas to mugshots, one of India’s oldest photo studios is reinventing itself & digitising over 20,000 artefacts from 1947-1967. ‘Fail to preserve history and narratives can be misappropriated.’

It’s now ‘big shovels’ over ‘big oil’—critical minerals are the international economy’s new staple

The transition to renewable energy, digitalisation of the economy and pressure to keep pace with developments in cutting-edge technology all hinge on a select few minerals.

Gandhi’s horoscope to Mountbatten Partition papers: Race to digitise National Archives

An estimated 15% (4.5 crore pages) of the archives are in fragile condition and have turned black due to moisture and fungus, making it necessary to digitise them.

CBI ‘spread too thin’, must focus on crimes that truly threaten nation’s security, says CJI Chandrachud

At D.P. Kohli Memorial Lecture on agency's Raising Day, CJI says special CBI courts merely ‘new avatars’ of existing courts, adds that quick disposal of cases need of the hour.

Save money by ‘digitising’ your wardrobe—and make sustainable fashion choices

In the UK, it has been estimated that 65% women and 44% men have clothing that they are yet to wear, while one survey found that many women consider garments worn once or twice as ‘old’

Interactive experiments, 3D dissections — how NCERT virtual lab aims to bring school learning to life

CIET has designed learning content — both virtual & augmented — for math, science, hindi, & environmental sciences for various grades. However, challenges in implementation remain.

Big tech’s laid off over 2.6 lakh people since 2022. Why Indian industry will face limited impact

Pandemic-driven enthusiasm around digitisation & technology drove companies to go on hiring spree, which came to screeching halt towards later part of 2022, as workforce reductions started.

World’s biggest problems have a simple solution. It’s about an ‘open digital ecosystem’

Open source approaches to technologies can help governments more efficiently develop tailored solutions to big and urgent challenges.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.