Category Policy Update

India’s Agricultural Export Policy: Performance, Gaps, and Reform Priorities

Policy Update, Agriculture, Food, Nutrition Security and Rural Development, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

India is the world’s second largest agricultural producer, however it contributes to only 2.35% share of global agricultural exports as of 2022.

IMPRI Desk
May 21, 2026

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India: Navigating India’s 5G Era

Policy Update, Science and Technology

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) was set up on 20 February 1997 under the TRAI Act, 1997. It came into being because India's telecom sector was opening up to private players under the National Telecom Policy 1994 and the government itself was still the main telecom operator. This created a structural conflict of who would regulate a market in which the regulator had a commercial interest. As a result, TRAI was established as an institutional response.

IMPRI Desk
May 21, 2026

India Needs State-Backed AI Capacity, Not Mythmaking

Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, Center for ICT for Development, Entrepreneurship, ICT and Innovation, Generation Alpha Data Centre, Insights, International Relations and Strategic Studies, Policy Update, Science and Technology

Anthropic, the US AI giant that seeks to differentiate itself from other AI firms as being the champion of ethics and responsibility, has restricted initial access to its new powerful AI model-cum-agent, Mythos, to 40 organisations. All of them, except British AI Security Institute, are American. Reason for the restricted access? Mythos is so powerful that it can detect hidden vulnerabilities in software systems. If hackers get their hands on it, they could wreak havoc.

IMPRI Desk and TK Arun
May 10, 2026

Iran Is Exposing the Limits of American Power

Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, Insights, International Relations and Strategic Studies, Policy Update

As the negotiations between Iran and the United States mediated by Oman were giving some hope to avert the war, on February 28, US President Donald Trump got played by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and followed the same playbook as June 2025 and launched decapitating attacks on Iran and its leadership, crossing the final redline by killing Ayatollah Khamenei and top military brass.

IMPRI Desk and Anil Trigunayat
May 10, 2026

Department of Bio-technology (DBT) Star College Programme (2026)

Insights, Policy Update, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes, Science and Technology

The Star College Programme was initiated by the Department of Bio-technology (DBT) in 2008 to support colleges and universities offering undergraduate education to improve science teaching across the country. This program was introduced to enhance critical thinking skills and promote "hands on" experimental science in foundational scientific courses at the undergraduate level.

IMPRI Desk
May 9, 2026

Border Roads Organization

Insights, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, IMPRI Research, Policy Update

Policy UpdateAnish Pujapanda Background The Border Roads Organisation is one of the statutory bodies or regulated bodies which is under the ownership of the Ministry of Defence which comes under the Union Government of India.The BRO’s develops and looks to…

IMPRI Desk
April 4, 2026

Small Saving Schemes

Policy Update, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, IMPRI Research, Insights, Public Finances and Macroeconomics

Policy Update Anish Pujapanda Background Saving Schemes can be traced back to the pre – colonial eras, where there was a launch of the Post Office Savings Bank in 1882 to democratise banking, making the savings across India’s vast postal…

IMPRI Desk
April 4, 2026