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Centre, Indian Statistical Institute faculty lock horns over new Bill

August 06, 2026 9:17 am

Opposition party members have called for the ISI Bill, 2026 to be referred to the Standing Committee on Finance

Why a Bill to reform a premier Indian institute has triggered criticism

August 03, 2026 5:45 pm

The Indian Statistical Institute was set up by eminent statistician PC Mahalanobis in 1931. Here is what the Centre has proposed for changing its governance structure.

Why the Indian Statistical Institute must retain its society structure

June 29, 2026 5:48 pm

ISI’s headquarters and its four centres have remained members of a “family”, amicably sharing resources, rights and responsibilities, including teaching. Why the issue of “real administrative and financial autonomy” has been suddenly raised is unclear

Indian Statistical Institute gets new director after eight months

April 02, 2026 2:51 am

According to sources, on Tuesday, Council Chairman Kopolil Radhakrishnan informed council members of Dutta's appointment via email on Tuesday. Dutta will assume charge from April 1.

Explained: The Indian Statistical Institute Bill 2025, and why it had led to protests

November 28, 2025 4:59 pm

On Friday, students, faculty members, and staff at the Kolkata campus of the Indian Statistical Institute held protests against the draft Bill’s changes to the institute’s governance structure. Here’s a breakdown of the row.

Kolkata's Indian Statistical Institute marks Mahalanobis’s birth anniversary, celebrates 75 years of NSS

June 30, 2025 6:13 am

Observed nationally as Statistics Day and internally as Workers’ Day, the celebration this year focused on “75 Years of the National Sample Survey”

'Personal milestone': At 60, Congress MP Ajay Maken attains PG Diploma in Applied Statistics from ISI Kolkata

September 21, 2024 9:50 am

Like many others, Covid pandemic gave Maken some time to reflect and retrospect.

Remembering K R Parthasarathy: A life in numbers

June 24, 2023 10:15 am

In his passing away, we have lost one of India’s finest mathematicians, scholars and teachers of the post-Independence era, whose research received high international acclaim and who inspired several generations of students

102-year-old Indian-American mathematician CR Rao to be conferred with International Prize in Statistics

April 11, 2023 9:18 am

Rao, who is now 102, will receive the prize, which comes with a $80,000 award, this July at the biennial International Statistical Institute World Statistics Congress in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

The Express View: The Indian male is stuck in a man-hunts-woman-nests stereotype

March 16, 2023 11:07 pm

Indian women are rapidly making up for a long history of being rendered “the second sex”, leaving their male partners at a loss in a world that is, almost suddenly, no longer theirs to inherit

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