Ex-IAS Rajiv Aggarwal succeeds Ankhi Das as FB India policy head

Facebook India on Monday said it has appointed ex-Indian Administrative Service officer and former Uber executive Rajiv Aggarwal as the director of Public Policy.   Photograph: Dado......

We are safe only when everyone is safe

So vaccinate employees and families, their staff at home, rickshaw drivers, milkmen, service providers, shopkeepers and street vendors, says Naushad Forbes. IMAGE: Registration process underway at......

India continues to score self-goals

The pandemic has brutally highlighted the inadequacy of India's administrative systems.And the government has demonstrated its culpable inability to speed up vaccination in a timely manner, argues......

Jaishankar holds talks with US NSA, reviews ties

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan during which they held wide-ranging discussions and agreed that people-to-people ties and shared......

A stringent patent rule is latest hurdle for India-UK free trade agreement

Negotiations for a trade deal between India and the UK have run into fresh controversy, after the proposals under a leaked chapter of the deal on intellectual property (IP) are believed to put......

Personal data protection law likely to see more delay

The final report was to be submitted in March but it got an extension till the second week of the monsoon session that began September 14. The Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 will be delayed......

India ranks 40 out of 53 countries in global IP index

The number one way the Modi administration can demonstrate its commitment to the success of the Atal Innovation Mission, Accelerating Growth for New India's Innovations, Make in India, Digital......

India must stop being the West's digital colony

'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,'......