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Making SEBI’s BRSR Count for Corporate Environmental Performance

Credible data and sector-specific benchmarks can help turn sustainability reporting into scrutiny of corporate decisions and ...
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India Needs SAHI-Linked Register for Healthcare AI Deployments

Testing healthcare AI is only the beginning; India must also be able to trace where these systems are used and respond when ...
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How Piped Water is Changing the Time Use Patterns of Rural Women

Five years after the Jal Jeevan Mission began, the more revealing question is what expanded water access has changed inside ...
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OECD Calls for Finer User Control Over Chatbot Conversations and Web-Scraped Data

The OECD’s Enhancing User Control and Privacy Protections in the Context of AI follows personal data through two routes into AI systems—directly from chatbot ...
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PNGRB Panel Seeks Tougher River-Crossing Standards and Backup Gas Supply After Pipeline Failures

Some failures occurred beyond the ends of underground drilled crossings. That matters because a crossing designed around an earlier estimate of a river’s width may not protect the pipeline if the ...
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Police Reform in India: Governing Discretion in Gender-Based Violence Cases

Police reform is often assessed through visible acts of compliance. Was a complaint registered? Was the prescribed procedure followed? These are necessary measures of institutional performance, but ...
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New Standards Set Out How India’s High-Risk Disease Labs Should Work Together

The new standards were released at the National One Health Mission’s Scientific Steering Committee meeting on 30 September 2026. They detail requirements for Biosafety Level-3 (BSL-3) laboratories ...
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FSSAI Proposes No Added Sucrose or Fructose in Early-Infant Foods and Pesticide Limits for Tea

FSSAI has published two separate draft amendments in the Gazette of India on 16 October 2026. One would change an existing allowance in infant-food standards; the other would specify residue limits ...
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OECD Sets Out Public-Interest Criteria for Reusing Health Data in Research and AI

Health records collected for patient care can also inform research, service planning and AI tools for health services. An OECD policy brief examines how review bodies can judge requests to reuse ...
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NITI Aayog Framework Asks States to Check Power, Water and Public Value Before Backing Data Centres

NITI Aayog’s Data Centre Evaluation Framework to Help States Plan for Sustainable Growth organises State assessment around five connected questions: Can the project be powered and cooled, is the site ...
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NITI Aayog–Published Study Proposes Higher Discount Rate for India’s Public Projects, Lower Rates for Long-Term Benefits

Reassessment of National Parameters for Appraisal of Public Investment Programmes/Projects in India, prepared by researchers at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre, proposes updates to the ...
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India’s Wholesale Inflation Reaches 11.39% in September as Fuel, Food and Manufactured-Product Prices Rise

Overall WPI inflation rose 1.47 percentage points between August and September. Fuel and power remained the fastest-rising major group at 25.85%, but the acceleration was not confined to energy: ...