Leaders Speak

Business leaders sharing their insights

Sinisa Pavic

Ambassador | Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to India
Interview

From non-alignment to strategic alignment: Charting the India-Serbia partnership in a multipolar world
Mariano Agustin Caucino

Ambassador of Argentina to India | Government of Argentina
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Lithium, geopolitical ties, shared values: India and Argentina mark a new era of cooperation
Interview

Critical minerals, common values: Ambassador Mariano Caucino on India-Argentina synergies
Sanjay Kumar Rakesh

Managing Director & CEO | CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd.
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Digital India@10: CSC SPV to offer free AI training to 10 lakh citizens and VLEs nationwide
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CSR for sustainable tomorrow: CSC leads the dialogue on rural empowerment
Interview

Common Service Centres: Digital transformation of rural India for inclusive, sustainable growth
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Sanjay Kumar Rakesh
Managing Director & CEO | CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd.

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Digital India@10: CSC SPV to offer free AI training to 10 lakh citizens and VLEs nationwide

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CSR for sustainable tomorrow: CSC leads the dialogue on rural empowerment

Interview

Common Service Centres: Digital transformation of rural India for inclusive, sustainable growth

Interview

CSC 2.0: Entrepreneurship model to empower rural areas with Digital India services & skills
Bhuvnesh Kumar

Additional Secretary | Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Mentioned in

Update your child’s Aadhaar biometrics between 5–7 years for free, says UIDAI in new drive
Interview

Deleting the dead: Aadhaar aims for lifecycle integrity in India’s digital public infrastructure
Interview

From fingerprints to face auth: UIDAI CEO Bhuvnesh Kumar on securing the digital identity of over billion Indians
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Bhuvnesh Kumar
Additional Secretary | Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

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Update your child’s Aadhaar biometrics between 5–7 years for free, says UIDAI in new drive

Interview

Deleting the dead: Aadhaar aims for lifecycle integrity in India’s digital public infrastructure

Interview

From fingerprints to face auth: UIDAI CEO Bhuvnesh Kumar on securing the digital identity of over billion Indians

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Aadhaar, face ID & end of paperwork: Opening bank accounts becomes seamless in Digital India

Interview

PARAM Rudra supercomputing platform: A new milestone in NSM’s supercomputing journey

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NSM’s ‘Atmanirbhar’ supercomputing ecosystem: Advancing innovation for betterment of humanity

Interview

As govt gears to notify rules for DPDP Act, data fiduciaries work to develop compliance systems
Thierry Mathou

Ambassador | Ambassador of France to India
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French National Day highlights India-France alliance in defence, diplomacy and innovation
Jaijit Bhattacharya

President | Centre for Digital Economy Policy
Opinion

Threat to India’s nylon filament yarn industry: Why urgent action is needed
Opinion

ADD on agrochemicals: A decisive step of the govt to safeguard 50 million rice farmers
Opinion

Multi-Core Fibre: India’s Pioneering Leap Towards Digital Sovereignty
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Jaijit Bhattacharya
President | Centre for Digital Economy Policy

Opinion

Threat to India’s nylon filament yarn industry: Why urgent action is needed

Opinion

ADD on agrochemicals: A decisive step of the govt to safeguard 50 million rice farmers

Opinion

Multi-Core Fibre: India’s Pioneering Leap Towards Digital Sovereignty

Opinion

Without TDQ and KTB, our troops may not reach the border: A case for anti-dumping action

Opinion

Ensuring agricultural sovereignty: The critical need to safeguard India’s herbicide industry

Opinion

Pharmaceutical sovereignty: India’s path to self-reliance and global leadership

Opinion

Securing India's digital leap: The promise of AI-based voice biometric authentication

Opinion

Countering Chinese dumping: Safeguarding India’s industrial and economic sovereignty

Opinion

Harnessing Digital Technologies for Transforming India's Education System: A Data-Driven Approach to NEP 2020 Goals

Opinion

India-US trade tango: Achieving the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat and Make India Great Again (MIGA)

Opinion

Rising threat of Chinese dumping: Critical need to safeguard chemical industry from unfair trade practices

Opinion

Developing supply chain resilience by enabling the growth of domestic high-tech industries

Opinion

A burgeoning crisis for Indian industry: The expiry of end-use exemptions

Opinion

Safeguarding India from unfair trade practices: Why is Minimum Import Price a growing need?

Opinion

Recoding the code on social security: Innovation & reforms to serve the needs of gig economy

Opinion

Ensuring quality & safety: Need for enforcement of Quality Control Order on PVC suspension resin

Opinion

Non-compliance of CPCB guidelines by importers: A major roadblock in ban on single-use plastic?

Opinion

AI-driven cloud diagnostics: A solution to India’s maternal and infant mortality crisis

Opinion

Penalizing logistics efficiency through GST: The wrong labelling of GTAs as courier agencies

Opinion

Preserving end-use exemptions: A strategic necessity for telecom sector & digital infra growth

Opinion

Towards Atmanirbharata: DGFT’s deployment of the strategy of MIP to safeguard trade

Opinion

India’s support for IPEF is a sign of commitment towards trans-border ease of doing business

Opinion

Weaponisation of pagers in Lebanon: The dangerous world of cyber-kinetic aggression

Opinion

On Donald Trump’s contention: Is India an abuser or victim of trade with the USA?

Opinion

What is Build America, Buy America Act? Lessons for Atmanirbharta campaign in India

Opinion

PVC sector: Parity on safety regulations & supply chain resilience must to grow the industry

Opinion

Telecom: For sustainable growth TSPs and LTGs must share cost of maintaining, upgrading network infra

Opinion

Patents to progress: Telecom Patent Fund fuels Atmanirbharta & global leadership in the digital age

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Anti-Dumping Duties: Answering the false charge that India follows aggressive trade practices

Opinion

Anti-dumping duties on outside jute products: What more can govt do to support India’s jute farmers

Opinion

Enabling telcos to recoup network expenses while ensuring equitable access to all: Way to Net Neutrality

Opinion

How to fund India's booming data consumption? Who pays for an ever-expanding network?

Opinion

PVC: Need to quadruple capacity to support India’s economic growth to $10 trillion by 2030

Opinion

Interim Budget 2024 showcases govt’s intent to foster self-sufficiency, growth across sectors

Opinion

Funding structure of internet for Large Traffic Generators: Lessons for India from the Korean model

Opinion

Hindenburg report, OCCRP and Canadian terrorist Pannun: A plot against Indian economy

Opinion

Telecom Conundrum: Roadmap for telecom networks to avoid the quagmire of Kalidasa effect

Opinion

India deserves better quality BharatNet; How to maximise value of broadband infra?

Opinion

Large traffic generators unleashing Kalidasa effect on telecom networks: What is the way out?

Opinion

Carbon neutral, climate friendly ‘jute’ is proof that climate change is real

Opinion

Why securing Ferro Molybdenum, other critical minerals is critical for India’s industrial growth

Opinion

Why sugar industry violations are very bitter for jute farmers

Opinion

Solving the telecom conundrum: Revenue sharing for equitable networks

Opinion

Policies for a post-climate change scenario

Opinion

Optical fiber along highways to boost deployment of Digital Infrastructure across the country

Opinion

Implementing BharatNet – A boon for rural India

Opinion

Revolutionizing Connectivity: Embracing mandatory in-building digital infra

Opinion

MTCTE: Need for immediate adoption for ensuring a robust Digital India

Opinion

Poised to ride digital revolution, India needs to secure its digital supply chains

Opinion

Empowering the legally illiterate through oral contracts on Digital Infrastructure
Monika S Garg

Additional Chief Secretary | Government of Uttar Pradesh
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What do we say to the Gods of death? Not today
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AI automates tasks, not jobs: Govt needs to work on imparting new skills to young India
Abhishek Singh

Additional Secretary | Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
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Trump’s AI diffusion doctrine: India, America & the battle to control compute and intelligence
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34000+ GPUs & counting: IndiaAI Mission builds the backbone of Public AI infrastructure
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Bhashini Scales Up: A New Office, A Renewed Mission for Digital Linguistic Inclusion
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Abhishek Singh
Additional Secretary | Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

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Trump’s AI diffusion doctrine: India, America & the battle to control compute and intelligence

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34000+ GPUs & counting: IndiaAI Mission builds the backbone of Public AI infrastructure

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Bhashini Scales Up: A New Office, A Renewed Mission for Digital Linguistic Inclusion

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AI for Bharat: MeitY Backs Sarvam AI to Build LLM with 4000 GPUs, Indian Languages and National Vision

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Bharat’s Digital Dharma: Nandan Nilekani on cyber diplomacy, inclusion & the promise of Bhashini

Interview

India’s AI Awakening: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Race to Build the Next Global AI Powerhouse

Interview

Ethical Artificial Intelligence: India strives for inclusivity, privacy, transparency in global AI framework
Lt Gen VG Khandare

Principal Advisor | Ministry of Defence
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India's Military-Industrial Complex: Unite the soldier, scientist & state to propel strategic autonomy, lead in global markets
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Chabahar to Haifa: India’s Strategic Balancing Act Across a Divided Middle East
Interview

How prepared is India for a two-and-a-half front war? Lt Gen Khandare on China, Pakistan nexus
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Lt Gen VG Khandare
Principal Advisor | Ministry of Defence

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India's Military-Industrial Complex: Unite the soldier, scientist & state to propel strategic autonomy, lead in global markets

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Chabahar to Haifa: India’s Strategic Balancing Act Across a Divided Middle East

Interview

How prepared is India for a two-and-a-half front war? Lt Gen Khandare on China, Pakistan nexus

Interview

Jai Hind is my vision, India should win in all domains, military & non-military: Principal Adviser MoD
Atul Sobti

Director General | Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE)
Mentioned in

National PSU Summit '25: Building a future-ready Bharat through Public Sector transformation
Interview

Manufacturing centres, R&D, skilling, new tech needed for Atmanirbharta in defence: DG SCOPE
Interview

Policy advocacy, workshops, capacity & brand building are the 4 pillars of SCOPE: DG
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Atul Sobti
Director General | Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE)

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National PSU Summit '25: Building a future-ready Bharat through Public Sector transformation

Interview

Manufacturing centres, R&D, skilling, new tech needed for Atmanirbharta in defence: DG SCOPE

Interview

Policy advocacy, workshops, capacity & brand building are the 4 pillars of SCOPE: DG

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GAIL to commission its first green hydrogen project in April: Sources
V Srinivas

Secretary | Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Gr
Mentioned in

National PSU Summit '25: Building a future-ready Bharat through Public Sector transformation
Interview

Next Gen CPGRAMS & Future of Governance: Secretary DARPG on Citizen-Centric Public Grievance Reform
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India Secures IIAS Presidency in Historic Election: Advancing Administrative Reforms on World Stage
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V Srinivas
Secretary | Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Gr

Mentioned in

National PSU Summit '25: Building a future-ready Bharat through Public Sector transformation

Interview

Next Gen CPGRAMS & Future of Governance: Secretary DARPG on Citizen-Centric Public Grievance Reform

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India Secures IIAS Presidency in Historic Election: Advancing Administrative Reforms on World Stage

Interview

AI, Automation & Accountability: How Digital India Vision is Reinventing Public Service Delivery
Lt Gen A B Shivane, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd)

Lt. General | Indian Army
Opinion

Handshake After Galwan: Rajnath Singh’s Qingdao Mission & Stress Test in the Himalayas
Opinion

Neighbourhood First 2.0: Why India Must Win South Asia Before the Next Round
Opinion

Deals, Duplicity, Donald Dilemma: What Trump's Intervention in Operation Sindoor Taught India
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Lt Gen A B Shivane, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd)
Lt. General | Indian Army

Opinion

Handshake After Galwan: Rajnath Singh’s Qingdao Mission & Stress Test in the Himalayas

Opinion

Neighbourhood First 2.0: Why India Must Win South Asia Before the Next Round

Opinion

Deals, Duplicity, Donald Dilemma: What Trump's Intervention in Operation Sindoor Taught India

Opinion

Operation Sindoor: India’s Precision Strike in an Age of Proxy Wars and Global Complicity

Opinion

India-Pakistan cyber war: The post-strike imperative to defend truth in age of digital deception

Opinion

Military compass post Pahalgam: Economics of war and the escalation matrix
Major General (Dr) S B Asthana

Major General | Indian Army
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Trump, Netanyahu & the Iran-Israel Inferno: Will the Strongman Duo Ignite a Bigger War?
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Lebanon’s kinetic cyber attacks: Exploding communication devices depict new dimension of warfare
Shashank Mani Tripathi

Member of Parliament | Lok Sabha
Interview

Carrying the Flame: Shashank Mani on Operation Sindoor, Jagriti Yatra, and Building a 2047 India
Amitabh Nag

Chief Executive Officer | Digital India Bhashini Division
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Bhashini Scales Up: A New Office, A Renewed Mission for Digital Linguistic Inclusion
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Giving voice to Bharat: Bhashini’s voice-based vision for inclusive Digital India
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Bharat’s Digital Dharma: Nandan Nilekani on cyber diplomacy, inclusion & the promise of Bhashini
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Amitabh Nag
Chief Executive Officer | Digital India Bhashini Division

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Bhashini Scales Up: A New Office, A Renewed Mission for Digital Linguistic Inclusion

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Giving voice to Bharat: Bhashini’s voice-based vision for inclusive Digital India

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Bharat’s Digital Dharma: Nandan Nilekani on cyber diplomacy, inclusion & the promise of Bhashini

Interview

Tripura first North East State to sign MoU with Bhashini for multi-lingual governance: Bhashini CEO

Interview

Digital India Leadership Series: Amitabh Nag, CEO, Digital India Bhashini Division, MeitY

Interview

Bhashini: The fundamental driver of linguistic empowerment, social inclusion & economic progress

Interview

Bhashini: AI tool for real time translations, transactions via voice inputs in local languages

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Leaders Speak

Business leaders sharing their insights

Sinisa Pavic

From non-alignment to strategic alignment: Charting the India-Serbia partnership in a multipolar world

Mariano Agustin Caucino

Lithium, geopolitical ties, shared values: India and Argentina mark a new era of cooperation

Critical minerals, common values: Ambassador Mariano Caucino on India-Argentina synergies

Sanjay Kumar Rakesh

Digital India@10: CSC SPV to offer free AI training to 10 lakh citizens and VLEs nationwide

CSR for sustainable tomorrow: CSC leads the dialogue on rural empowerment

Common Service Centres: Digital transformation of rural India for inclusive, sustainable growth

Sanjay Kumar Rakesh

Digital India@10: CSC SPV to offer free AI training to 10 lakh citizens and VLEs nationwide

CSR for sustainable tomorrow: CSC leads the dialogue on rural empowerment

Common Service Centres: Digital transformation of rural India for inclusive, sustainable growth

CSC 2.0: Entrepreneurship model to empower rural areas with Digital India services & skills

Bhuvnesh Kumar

Update your child’s Aadhaar biometrics between 5–7 years for free, says UIDAI in new drive

Deleting the dead: Aadhaar aims for lifecycle integrity in India’s digital public infrastructure

From fingerprints to face auth: UIDAI CEO Bhuvnesh Kumar on securing the digital identity of over billion Indians

Bhuvnesh Kumar

Update your child’s Aadhaar biometrics between 5–7 years for free, says UIDAI in new drive

Deleting the dead: Aadhaar aims for lifecycle integrity in India’s digital public infrastructure

From fingerprints to face auth: UIDAI CEO Bhuvnesh Kumar on securing the digital identity of over billion Indians

Aadhaar, face ID & end of paperwork: Opening bank accounts becomes seamless in Digital India

PARAM Rudra supercomputing platform: A new milestone in NSM’s supercomputing journey

NSM’s ‘Atmanirbhar’ supercomputing ecosystem: Advancing innovation for betterment of humanity

As govt gears to notify rules for DPDP Act, data fiduciaries work to develop compliance systems

Thierry Mathou

French National Day highlights India-France alliance in defence, diplomacy and innovation

Jaijit Bhattacharya

Threat to India’s nylon filament yarn industry: Why urgent action is needed

ADD on agrochemicals: A decisive step of the govt to safeguard 50 million rice farmers

Multi-Core Fibre: India’s Pioneering Leap Towards Digital Sovereignty

Jaijit Bhattacharya

Threat to India’s nylon filament yarn industry: Why urgent action is needed

ADD on agrochemicals: A decisive step of the govt to safeguard 50 million rice farmers

Multi-Core Fibre: India’s Pioneering Leap Towards Digital Sovereignty

Without TDQ and KTB, our troops may not reach the border: A case for anti-dumping action

Ensuring agricultural sovereignty: The critical need to safeguard India’s herbicide industry

Pharmaceutical sovereignty: India’s path to self-reliance and global leadership

Securing India's digital leap: The promise of AI-based voice biometric authentication

Countering Chinese dumping: Safeguarding India’s industrial and economic sovereignty

Harnessing Digital Technologies for Transforming India's Education System: A Data-Driven Approach to NEP 2020 Goals

India-US trade tango: Achieving the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat and Make India Great Again (MIGA)

Rising threat of Chinese dumping: Critical need to safeguard chemical industry from unfair trade practices

Developing supply chain resilience by enabling the growth of domestic high-tech industries

A burgeoning crisis for Indian industry: The expiry of end-use exemptions

Safeguarding India from unfair trade practices: Why is Minimum Import Price a growing need?

Recoding the code on social security: Innovation & reforms to serve the needs of gig economy

Ensuring quality & safety: Need for enforcement of Quality Control Order on PVC suspension resin

Non-compliance of CPCB guidelines by importers: A major roadblock in ban on single-use plastic?

AI-driven cloud diagnostics: A solution to India’s maternal and infant mortality crisis

Penalizing logistics efficiency through GST: The wrong labelling of GTAs as courier agencies

Preserving end-use exemptions: A strategic necessity for telecom sector & digital infra growth

Towards Atmanirbharata: DGFT’s deployment of the strategy of MIP to safeguard trade

India’s support for IPEF is a sign of commitment towards trans-border ease of doing business

Weaponisation of pagers in Lebanon: The dangerous world of cyber-kinetic aggression

On Donald Trump’s contention: Is India an abuser or victim of trade with the USA?

What is Build America, Buy America Act? Lessons for Atmanirbharta campaign in India

PVC sector: Parity on safety regulations & supply chain resilience must to grow the industry

Telecom: For sustainable growth TSPs and LTGs must share cost of maintaining, upgrading network infra

Patents to progress: Telecom Patent Fund fuels Atmanirbharta & global leadership in the digital age

Anti-Dumping Duties: Answering the false charge that India follows aggressive trade practices

Anti-dumping duties on outside jute products: What more can govt do to support India’s jute farmers

Enabling telcos to recoup network expenses while ensuring equitable access to all: Way to Net Neutrality

How to fund India's booming data consumption? Who pays for an ever-expanding network?

PVC: Need to quadruple capacity to support India’s economic growth to $10 trillion by 2030

Interim Budget 2024 showcases govt’s intent to foster self-sufficiency, growth across sectors

Funding structure of internet for Large Traffic Generators: Lessons for India from the Korean model

Hindenburg report, OCCRP and Canadian terrorist Pannun: A plot against Indian economy

Telecom Conundrum: Roadmap for telecom networks to avoid the quagmire of Kalidasa effect

India deserves better quality BharatNet; How to maximise value of broadband infra?

Large traffic generators unleashing Kalidasa effect on telecom networks: What is the way out?

Carbon neutral, climate friendly ‘jute’ is proof that climate change is real

Why securing Ferro Molybdenum, other critical minerals is critical for India’s industrial growth

Why sugar industry violations are very bitter for jute farmers

Solving the telecom conundrum: Revenue sharing for equitable networks

Policies for a post-climate change scenario

Optical fiber along highways to boost deployment of Digital Infrastructure across the country