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Category Science and Technology
SOAR Initiative: Equipping the World’s Largest School-Going Population with AI Readiness.
The Skilling for AI Readiness (SOAR) initiative is a national-level policy intervention by the Government of India to include basic Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy into school education, responding to the rapid integration of AI in our daily lives and the workplace.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India: Navigating India’s 5G Era
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.
India Needs State-Backed AI Capacity, Not Mythmaking
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.
Department of Bio-technology (DBT) Star College Programme (2026)
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.
DBT-Wellcome Trust Partnership/India Alliance
DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance, known as India Alliance, is a key public charity advancing biomedical research in India through fellowships and capacity building. This policy update for IMPRI details its structure and trajectory as of early 2026, building on the prior HFSPO overview.
Rethinking Government Support for Data Centre
T.K. Arun Data-centre tax holidays represent oodles of government cash to favoured Indian businesses for little public benefit The 21-year tax holiday doled out by the Union Budget to foreign firms that do data centre business in India should be rolled back,…