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
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.
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
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.
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.
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”
September 21, 2024 9:50 am
Like many others, Covid pandemic gave Maken some time to reflect and retrospect.
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
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.
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


