India In Metro desk
The essential developments, updated through the day.

Lead story · NEWS
Byju’s once stood tall with a $22 billion valuation. Today it is nearly worthless, stuck in insolvency, with heavy layoffs and legal fights. That crash changed everything for Indian edtech. Investors who once threw money at online education now stay far away.
OPINION · Policy & Schemes
When official events highlight student experiences and company participation, the next policy step is to ask what the programme changes in actual employment and skills mobility.
NEWS · Latest
The August 14 update on FutureSkills PRIME suggests that India’s future-tech skilling drive is increasingly being framed as a workforce strategy, not only a training scheme.
NEWS
A deadly slope collapse in Ghatkopar has sharpened attention on urban flood risk just as the weather office keeps heavy-rain warnings active across parts of western India.
NEWS
Fresh trade data for August 13 shows double-digit export growth, led by strong gains in petroleum products, electronics and engineering goods.
EXPLAINER
A new government backgrounder frames AI infrastructure as the next industrial layer, with subsidised compute, public datasets and deployed prototypes already scaling up.
NEWS · AI
A government technology factsheet released on August 13 places new emphasis on measurable AI and semiconductor capacity, not just long-term ambition.
NEWS · Trending
An August 13 enforcement action in Uttar Pradesh has put precursor chemicals and hidden drug-manufacturing infrastructure into sharper public focus.
NEWS · Cricket
A state-specific follow-up to a larger sports-quota recruitment drive shows how national intake announcements filter into identifiable athlete stories.
NEWS · Health
The national Anemia Mukt Bharat workshop shows that nutrition and blood-health policy now hinges on tracking, convergence and follow-up.
OPINION · Policy & Schemes
The government’s latest trade release matters not just because exports rose, but because electronics and engineering goods featured among the drivers.
NEWS
Indian Railways says the app is now averaging about 10 lakh ticket bookings a day, bringing reserved, unreserved and platform services into one mobile flow.
NEWS
A Rs 295 crore approval extends the anti-collision safety programme across more of the North Eastern Railway network.
EXPLAINER · How it works
The rail app’s growing download count matters less as a vanity metric and more as a sign of how Indian Railways is trying to merge multiple passenger functions into one flow.
EXPLAINER · How it works
A digital registry change may sound procedural, but easier access to records and certified copies can alter the speed and cost of legal follow-up for companies and litigants.
OPINION · Policy & Schemes
A fast-growing public app can still disappoint users if scale is not matched by smooth service, stable access and fewer dead ends during peak demand.
NEWS · Cricket
The August 12 recruitment announcement turns a sports-policy principle into a large public-employment signal for accomplished athletes.
NEWS · Science & Technology CA
The item is revision-friendly because it combines a named app, a major user milestone and a broader trend toward digital public-service integration.
NEWS · Health
A 12 August health factsheet links insurance, digital identity, labs, wellness centres and hospital blocks into one larger public-health capacity story.
NEWS · Science & Technology CA
The ICMR open-day programme turns research exposure into a current-affairs story about scientific temper and future talent building.
NEWS
The successful flight test of Mission Divyastra places India in an elite club of nations with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle capabilities.