1. Preliminary The union budget of India for the year 2019-2020 was presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 05 July 2019. This was the National Democratic Alliance – II (“NDA-II”) government’s first budget. Shortly after Sitharaman’s presentation of the budget, IndiaSpend, a non-profit organization that uses open data to analyse India’s socio-economic issues, publishedRead more
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Overview Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form the next Union government in India. In election results announced on 23 May 2019, the BJP and its allies, which together constitute the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), secured 353 out of 542 seats in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament; also called theRead more
Preliminary On 1st May, 2018, the Department of Telecommunications under the Ministry of Communications rolled out the draft National Digital Communications Policy, 2018 (“Draft Policy”). Following a round of public consultations on the draft policy, the Union Cabinet approved the final National Digital Communications Policy, 2018 (“Policy”), on September 26, 2018. This Policy, whichRead more