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Samarth Bansal

Samarth Bansal is a data journalist based in New Delhi, with a keen interest in politics and public policy.

Articles by Samarth Bansal

For this first-time voter, there is no other place like India

Nineteen-year-old Ayush Anand Malik, an engineering student from Dewas, will vote in his first general elections this year.

Updated on Mar 4, 2019 09:37 IST

India’s invitation to Huawei for 5G trials sparks concerns: Insufficient security safeguards plague telecom sector

The telecom department promised to set up security testing labs by 2013 in order to test for bugs in network equipment, but they are still not in place, officials familiar with the matter said.

Updated on Dec 30, 2018 03:11 IST

‘China model of censorship’: Proposal to trace online content sparks concern

The Indian government has proposed draft amendments to a law governing online content which, if passed by parliament, would require social media platforms to trace the originator of a message, use “automated tools” to proactively detect and remove “unlawful information” and set up a business entity in India.

Updated on Dec 25, 2018 11:43 IST

Rajasthan an exception, Facebook popularity doesn’t ensure win

Updated on Dec 14, 2018 05:22 IST

Supreme Court judgment on Aadhaar leads to confusion in private sector

A day after the Supreme Court of India struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act that allowed sharing of Aadhaar data with private entities, companies don’t have clarity on what the ruling means for their business.

Updated on Sep 27, 2018 17:53 IST

Data is secure, some information not private: Supreme Court

The UIDAI collects demographic and biometric data of an individual during enrolment.

Updated on Sep 26, 2018 17:04 IST

From data security to use of biometrics: Here’s everything you need to know about the Aadhaar case

Disagreements over Aadhaar data security and its implications for privacy continue. Whether Aadhaar is fully secure or fundamentally flawed depends on where one stands.

Updated on Sep 26, 2018 04:07 IST

PM stays on the move: Three charts that show how Modi travelled in 2017

Narendra Modi visited 14 countries in 2017.

Updated on Dec 31, 2017 03:06 IST

How India spends on health

HT Image

Updated on Dec 11, 2017 12:31 IST

Getting Rs 1 crore-plus paycheck is a distant dream for most IIT grads

A view of the Indian Institute of Technology campus in Delhi.

Updated on Dec 3, 2017 02:23 IST

How Rahul Gandhi is challenging Narendra Modi on Twitter, winning eyeballs

Rahul Gandhi has gained more than one million followers between July and September 2017. (HT file photos)

Updated on Oct 18, 2017 10:29 IST

India has data, but who is going to figure it out

The union minister of law and electronics and information technology Ravi Shankar Prasad att the launch of Hackathon in New Delhi in September this year. The participants were urged to use the open data from government wbsite to develop apps.

Updated on Sep 22, 2017 02:13 IST

From missing data to unreliable numbers, India’s statistical ecosystem needs an overhaul

There serious problems with India’s public health statistics.

Updated on Sep 21, 2017 04:45 IST

In IIT-Kanpur, students are upset over security ‘overstepping’ limit, allege harassment

IStudents at IIT-Kanpur allege their freedom of movement is restrained by security guards

Updated on Sep 8, 2017 11:26 IST

Privacy upheld as fundamental right: What term means for you, what’s govt view

A woman goes through the process of eye scanning for Unique Identification (UID) database system at an enrolment centre at Merta district in Rajasthan February 21, 2013.

Updated on Aug 24, 2017 08:48 IST

BTech and bust: Why Indians rush to be engineers when there are no jobs

Students at Vaish College of Engineering, which is one of the oldest private engineering colleges in Rohtak.

Updated on Aug 23, 2017 13:10 IST

‘Only when bill arrives, we know there’s power’: What ails India’s rural electrification scheme?

For all its ambition, the programme is undercut by a difficult reality: infrastructure alone doesn’t translate into energisation or access to electricity.

Updated on Aug 19, 2017 04:59 IST

All eyes on Gorakhpur, but these 5 maps show that it isn’t even close to how bad healthcare is in UP

A file photo taken on August 14, 2017 shows a child at the encephalitis ward of the Baba Raghav Das Hospital in Gorakhpur, where 70 children died last week.

Updated on Aug 17, 2017 03:14 IST

Gorakhpur tragedy a reminder of all that ails India’s public funds management

A man leaves a hospital ward with the lifeless body of his one-month-old nephew at Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur where at least 60 children died in the last week. The deaths coincided with a shortage of oxygen mid-week, after supply from a private firm was cut off due to pending dues.

Updated on Aug 13, 2017 11:30 IST

IITs must not scrap departments that have low traction in the job market

Students at IIT Delhi campus in New Delhi, India, on Friday, September 12, 2014. (Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on Aug 8, 2017 13:11 IST

3 yrs of Modi govt: Question of jobs a major challenge confronting Centre

Representative photo.

Updated on May 27, 2017 14:03 IST

Saharanpur Dalit-Thakur violence: Here’s why UP blocked WhatsApp, social media

Uttar Pradesh home secretary Mani Prasad Mishra interacts with villagers in Shabeerpur on Wednesday.

Updated on Jun 13, 2017 04:16 IST

Faking it on WhatsApp: How India's favourite messaging app is turning into a rumour mill

WhatsApp offers private medium of communication, but the same feature is used to spread dangerous rumours.

Updated on May 19, 2017 09:21 IST

Aadhaar row: Activists say workers under rural scheme will be denied jobs, govt denies

Government says the March 31 deadline for Aadhaar enrolment has already been extended for another six months.

Updated on Jul 19, 2017 07:14 IST

India’s data collectors have a number problem as national survey office faces staff crunch

The field operations division of the NSSO, which is responsible for collecting primary data, has around 24% of positions vacant for the posts of junior and senior statistical officers.

Updated on Mar 29, 2017 18:50 IST

Do numbers bear out the theory of silent Muslim support for BJP in UP polls?

In the wake of BJP’s landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh, party president Amit Shah said there were no “Hindu or Muslim voters”.

Updated on Apr 6, 2017 06:10 IST

Govt education spending falls short of HRD minister Prakash Javadekar’s mark

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government is making progress on its education spending goals, but the budget documents say otherwise.

Updated on Feb 7, 2017 06:56 IST

Budget 2017: What finance minister Arun Jaitley said versus what the numbers show

The budget is about policy while the budget speech is about politics. How did finance minister Arun Jaitley measure up?

Updated on Feb 1, 2017 20:16 IST

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