Digital India

India’s insurance industry has become faster and more digital, but low penetration shows trust—not access—remains the biggest challenge for meaningful financial protection.

For privacy, an Aadhaar held in a digital wallet is safer than handing over a photocopy of one’s ID card. In fact, we should open up the system further. If one’s age is all a platform needs to check, for example, there’s a way to ensure that’s the only part disclosed.

The ministry of environment, forest and climate change has made the process of obtaining certified compliance reports for industrial expansion proposals digital through the existing PARIVESH portal, aiming to ease procedures for businesses seeking environmental clearance.

Proposed changes to India’s IT rules would hand too much discretionary power to the executive, while making life hard for ordinary users of internet platforms. The amendment proposals are a bad idea. They mustn’t go through.

Draft proposals for amending India’s IT Rules risk granting the administration excessive extra-legislative authority over what can be posted online and what can’t. At stake are freedom of speech, legal certainty and the country’s digital economy.

In this weekly Plain Facts compilation, we present to you data-based insights, with easy-to-read charts, to help you delve deeper into the stories reported by Mint in the week gone by.

The international AI huddle in New Delhi offers India an opportunity to forge global partnerships in the Global South's favour and push an inclusive agenda. But as geopolitics and business interests loom over the AI race, can this summit make a substantive difference to how this technology evolves?

India is trying to tighten the screws on AI abuse with tough new takedown deadlines and other measures under the IT Rules of 2026. But can deepfakes and the harms they cause be policed this way? Making the rules work won’t be easy.