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Image: Representatives from IOM-UN Migration, DataLEADS and VFS Global after the launch of MIAC at VFS Global, New Delhi, under the Jagruk Jao initiative. © IOM/2025 New Delhi, 06 January 2026: On International Migrants Day 2025, a new Migrant Information and Awareness Centre (MIAC) dedicated to promoting safe, orderly, and regular migration was launched at the VFS Global Academy, Shivaji Stadium Metro Station, New Delhi.

POSITION: Senior Programme Associate – Outreach & Engagement DataLEADS is looking for a dynamic Senior Programme Associate – Outreach & Engagement to join our Delhi office. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience in outreach, communications, and event coordination, and will work at the intersection of digital engagement and grassroots mobilisation to help drive awareness and participation in the project.

News magazine THE WEEK and media and tech company DataLEADS on Tuesday announced their collaboration to build a series of tech-driven, digital first news products and host major live journalism events in India, the UAE and other global hubs. The partnership, according to a statement, aims at expanding the scope of the impactful journalism done by THE WEEK with the data-driven insights and fact-checking expertise of DataLEADS.

In the recent general elections we saw how big a threat disinformation, misinformation  and fake news can be. That threat gets multiplied many fold by the power of AI. This experience is not limited to only India, but globally every society, every government is facing the exact same threat by the emergence of new risks based on AI. The societies are responding in methodical and thought through ways“, said Union Railways and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

The government is in the consultative process of drafting the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2024, with an aim to get Over the Top – OTT broadcasters services and online content creators under its regulatory clasp – a move that has invited scorn from the Opposition and Independent content creators. A new redrafted bill is likely to be ready by next month and if all stakeholders come around it, it may be even tabled in the next Parliament session.

The 2024 Indian elections have concluded. Indian voters have cast their votes and chosen the new government. With a landmark 969 million eligible voters, and 18 million first-time voters, and more than 2,600 political parties, election event of the world’s largest democracy grabbed all the possible headlines in the country and worldwide.

The Global Risk Report 2024 from the World Economic Forum states that misinformation is one of the greatest threats countries around the world face. India, the largest democracy in the world, is identified as one of the nations with the most significant risk associated with disinformation and misinformation. This is particularly important because India just concluded its national elections, and more than 50 other countries around the world go to polls this year.

With democracy at stake, competing media organizations shelved their rivalries to combat misinformation during India’s elections More than 300 journalists from at least 50 newsrooms collaborated to tackle misinformation during India’s April to June election, the largest in history. The general election, conducted in seven phases, saw 642 million people vote over a six-week period.

The Forum on Information and Democracy and the members of its Working Group on Artificial Intelligence welcome the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on artificial intelligence and human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. They call upon Signatory States to apply the Convention to the private sector to ensure that it is bound by democratic principles and rules.

It’s that time of the year when electoral booths become the hotspot. After all, more than half of the world is marching toward elections this year (Over 50 countries have elections this year). With many developments interluding with this event, technology too has found its potential roles and responsibilities. Or have they?