Section of faculty, students and alumni oppose MoSPI's draft Bill that seeks to replace Indian Statistical Institute's ...

New Delhi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged on Sunday that the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is "gradually being taken over institutionally" by the RSS, while asserting that institutions will ...

Rahul Gandhi alleged that the RSS is institutionally taking over the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), asserting that academic institutions should be governed by knowledge, not ideology. He shared ...

The Centre has extended the deadline for public feedback on its revised draft of the Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2025. In its essence, the draft Bill aims to give Kolkata-based Indian ...

Teachers and staff of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, voiced deep concern that the proposed ISI Bill could pave the way for the “abolition” of hundreds of vacant teaching and non-teaching ...

Every quarter’s gross domestic product (GDP) data release cycle sees a familiar question resurface: Can we trust India’s GDP numbers? The question has been raised often enough to become a ritual. This ...

More than 1,500 academics have expressed grave concerns and held demonstrations in Kolkata to protest a Central government plan to repeal the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Act, 1959 and replace ...

The panel has recommended empowering the NSC as the nodal body to prescribe methodologies, harmonise data practices, and involve private agencies and experts through a permanent technical committee.

The Centre’s draft Indian Statistical Institute Bill 2025, made public in September for feedback, has drawn criticism from academics and students for the changes it proposes to the governance ...

The Bahamas’ main economic data provider is facing challenges to maintain its “credibility and independence” due to resource constraints such as “significant” staffing issues, the Inter-American ...

The draft Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2025 proposes a major structural shift for ISI by replacing its society-based governance with a centrally defined statutory framework. For ISI Kolkata, ...

Kolkata: Faculty members, staff and students of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, on Monday raised the pitch against the draft ISI bill, claiming that the proposal was a meticulously designed ...