The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), one of India’s most prestigious institutes, is now entering undergraduate education with the launch of two new four-year BSc (Hons) programs in Data Science and Economics. The first academic batch at the newly planned Jigani campus will commence in August 2026, marking a new milestone in multidisciplinary undergraduate education in India.  

Key highlights of the New Undergraduate Programmes 

Courses Offered: 

BSc Honours in Economics (B Data science, B business).

BSc (honours) in Data Science (minors in Economics and Business)

Programme Duration: Full time duration will be four years (eight semesters)

Admission of Students: 

First batch: 40 students per programme (80 total) 

Expansion planned up to 640 students by 2031.

Campus: Jigani, about 27 km from IIMB’s main Bannerghatta Road campus

Admission Requirements and Procedure

1. Opening date: September 2025
2. Expected start Date: August 2026
3. Eligibility: 60% in mathematics in 10+2 and minimum 60% overall in class 10th
4. Age limit (2026 batch): Maximum 20 years for unreserved and 22 years for reserved category. 
5. Admission Process: 

• Aptitude Test at the national level (will be conducted in December of the 2025 year)
• Personal Interview round
• The aptitude test includes Maths, logical ability, English, and general knowledge.

Programme Structure & Curriculum

These UG degree programmes are designed according to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and offer the aspirants a stronger and more vibrant multidisciplinary foundation:

Also, doing one of these ug degrees, opens a chance to have international experience and get opportunities to pursue several internships that will enhance the skill set and give real-time experience. 

Coverage and Affordability

• Annual Tuition Fee: Approximately 8.5 lakh 
• Financial Assistance: IIMB believes in reaching out to a diverse lot and accordingly, 20 percent of resources have been kept aside as need-based financial aid to see to it that deserving candidates do not have time lag because of their financial incapability

The Importance of Launching UG  programmes.

The disruption of India Based Innovation in the region through the development of undergraduate education by IIM Bangalore can be understood as a strategic step in meeting the growing need of undergraduate degrees across India with the aspect of good quality and integration of courses. As the economy and the job market have been changing at a very fast pace, the demand for data-literate and an economically knowledgeable graduate has been increased. Such programmes are specific to the needs of the market and equip the young with skills that are relevant world-wide.

International Exposure and Employment opportunities.

Graduates will have not only the fame of IIMB (the continually ranking number one management institute in India) but also clinical expertise in a specified field of their choice:

1. Economics Track: Qualifies the students into jobs in policy analysis, consulting, financial services, government, NGOs, and international global policy studies.
2. Data Science Track: Prepares the students to work as data analysts, machine learning engineers, business intelligence and others.

Facilities within the New Jigani Campus

The new Jigani campus which covers 110 acres will have:

• Modern rooms and laboratories
• Museums and modern hostels and sporting facilities
• Sustainable infrastructure and learning tech environments

How to apply and Prepare?

The students interested in the course are advised to keep track of the admission announcements at the IIM Bangalore official site and begin practicing the aptitudes test. The candidates are advised to emphasize on high mathematical and reasoning standards with the readiness to undergo a whole body interview.

The roll out of undergrad degrees at IIM Bangalore is a big decision in Indian higher education providing the best-quality multidisciplinary education and jobs to the worthy students in the country. Individuals interested in being part of the first batch of IIMB ought to monitor the application calendar- where the process begins in September, 2025.

With artificial intelligence developing at an ever-increasing pace the world is being presented with a new problem of how to safeguard people against the abuse of their identity in deepfake manipulation that has been presented by artificial intelligence. As a result, Denmark is about to become the first nation in Europe, and among the first worldwide, legally to grant individuals the copyright over their own face, voice and body. This major step is intended to provide citizens with ownership over the use of their faces and voices in the digital era and in a time when deepfake technology is increasingly composed and easy to create. 

What Is Denmark’s Deepfake Law?

In June 2025, the government of Denmark proposed an initiative that will fundamentally change the copyright legislation in the country, which was backed by virtually every major political group. The proposed new law would grant a person his physical appearance, voice, and his body as his intellectual asset. It implies that when an individual uses your image (your face, voice or physical appearance) in a fake video, audio recording or image without consent, you could sue him or her to remove it and be rewarded with monetary compensation.

Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt of Denmark reported that the law aims to put “a loud message” that each person has the rights over their own face and voice. He underlined the urgency as people could be cloned or copied nowadays with the help of digital devices and these people could be misused in a way people never could imagine before. The legislation should be adopted by fall in 2025, and it will be implemented by the end of the year.

Why Is This Law Important for Digital Rights? 

Deep fakes, hyper-realistic AI-generated images, videos, or audio that resemble real people, have become an international issue. A study by Deeptrace Labs estimated that there were more than 500,000 deepfake videos on the Internet by early 2025 as the amount of deepfake videos online doubled every six months in 2024. These deepfakes are also utilized in malicious activities, research, and misinformation, fraud, non-consensual explicit content creation.

How Will the Law Work? 

1. Copyright over Likeness: People will be having a copyright of face, voice and body.
2. Removal and Compensation: It permits the targets to seek the removal of unauthorized posting and compensation.
3. Platform Accountability: The social media and technology platforms should be swift in order to delete the flagged content, or they should be penalized severely.
4. Exemptions: Satire and its parody are allowed to guarantee freedom of speech.

The Danish government also plans to advocate for similar protections throughout the European Union when it assumes the EU presidency in 2025, signaling a potential shift in digital rights across the continent.

Implications and Opinion around the world

Digital rights and AI ethics experts have applauded the move by Denmark. Dr. Carissa Vllez is a professor of AI ethics at the University of Oxford, and he believes that this legislation can become the first paradigm of global digital personal rights, which will empower ordinary people against AI abuse. European Digital Rights (EDRi) agrees with the move as well, because the current legal regulations have not kept pace with the AI advancement.

Denmark is in the spotlight of other countries. The European Union already adopted the AI Act that establishes the regulation on high-risk AI applications but the Danish legislation would be even more detailed, shedding light on matters of individual rights and protection against deepfakes. The United States is also debating it, with states such as California and Texas enacting laws against deepfake election interference but so far no state currently has comprehensive copyright of personal likeness.

Why is it Important to the World?

Since the AI content is becoming increasingly advanced, identity theft, fraud, and reputational damage risks are increasing. Copyrighting of faces and voices is a preemptive move to enable the citizenry, keep predators at bay, and bring tech corporations to justice.

This action by Denmark is not only related to the protection of their own country as it might trigger an influx of similar legislation at an international scale, placing a new standard of how digital rights should be accommodated in the age of AI. Legal systems (such as the one in Denmark) will play an important role in preserving personal identity and integrity in online correspondences as deepfake technology develops.

The revolutionary idea by Denmark to confer copyright on faces, voices, and bodies is the answer to deepfangs that has come at the right time. Having a clear vision on digital rights and high political support, Denmark is establishing the example of how individuals can be safeguarded against the abuses introduced by AI. This law is capable of becoming an example to other countries all over the world, as the world observes and hopes that in the era of AI applications, only the owner would own his/her identity.

A new industrial revolution is taking shape in China with dark factories where fully automated manufacturing facilities operate without human workers or the need for lights. The factories are called dark factories because they are dark in literal sense as machines can work efficiently without lights. 

What are Dark Factories? 

Dark factories in China are driven by advanced technology of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and sensors and will be a significant change in the manufacturing environment across the world. Everything in this dark factory is done by machines, instead of humans, where there is no need to turn on the lights, fans, heaters, or to take breaks. This not only reduces energy consumption and operational costs but also allows for 24/7 production, maximizing efficiency and output. 

The push towards dark factories is a core part of China’s ambitious “Made in China 2025” initiative, which aims to make the country a global leader in high-tech manufacturing. The government of China has put a lot of money into automation and has installed more than 290, 000 industrial robots in 2022, which is more than 50 % of all the robots installed in the world, way ahead of other countries. 

Leading Companies and Examples 

Major corporations like Foxconn and BYD are leading this transformation. Foxconn has replaced tens of thousands of workers with robots and plans to automate 1/3rd of its operations by 2025. Xiaomi’s Changping facility exemplifies this trend, producing one smartphone every second through AI-powered systems.

Benefits and Challenges

Dark factories are not just for efficiency but for the need of the era where fast commerce is increasing and people don’t possess patience to wait for a thing. Also, As labor costs in China rise, automation offers a way to maintain competitiveness and avoid issues like strikes or labor shortages. Robots are also more accurate that minimize product defects and enhance the quality of the products being manufactured. 

However, challenges surround this revolution. The transition brings fear of job displacement to millions of factory employees and creates new demand for highly skilled engineers and technicians to design, maintain and upgrade these sophisticated systems. 

The Future of Manufacturing 

The trend is gaining momentum despite these misgivings. By early 2025, Chinese companies had built thousands of smart and hundreds of fully automated dark factories, primarily in high-tech industries electronics and electric vehicles. These plants are the results of the collaboration of AI, big data, and 5G technologies that redefine the industry and the quality control and productivity levels.

In conclusion, China is changing and revolutionizing production with its dark factories and its push towards modern technology and efficiency. On the one hand, the dark factory of China is offering the future of greater productivity and reduction of costs; on the other hand, it vividly demonstrates the necessity of discussing the social and economic consequences of automation on the working population. 

In a significant move, the Delhi government has decided to install smart boards in government schools. This digital initiative will change the way lakhs of children gain education on a daily basis. This is one of the largest investments in the world, the Delhi Cabinet has sanctioned, 900 crores, to have nearly 21000 smart boards replace the blackboards in classrooms in government schools by 2029-30, and a smart board, is not just about technology, it makes a difference in bridging it in the opportunity gap, and it also makes a difference to the minds of young people.

For decades, the blackboard has been used in Indian classrooms, but in Delhi  that has over 37,000 government school classrooms, only 799 had smart boards until now and that too have largely been equipped out of donations, not the government. That’s less than 2.1%! 

The new initiative will transform this story so much so that 18,996 smart boards will be deployed in five phases, and another 2,466 will be already in pipe-line in 75 CM Shri schools.

Here’s what makes smart board important in today’s classroom: 

1. Interactive Learning: Videos, animations, and interactive quizzes can be used with the help of these boards making the lessons much more interesting, and simple to comprehend.
2. Personalised Education: Aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the smart boards will support experiential and personalised learning, catering to different learning styles.
3. AI and Robotics Ready: Delhi even has plans to continue the tradition of Gujarat with the introduction of AI-enabled smart boards and robotics labs and provide students with practical skills with new technologies of the future.

The most notable thing is the fact that the government is taking education very seriously through focusing on schools in localities like Najafgarh, Narela, Seemapuri, Mahavir Enclave and Kirari; areas which tend to be untouched when it comes to major reforms. It is a deliberate move to make sure that digital learning can no longer be a preserve of the elite but it is available in far corners of Delhi.

What the government is doing is more than placing hardware, a smart board in a class. It is about investing in the youth. The use of the new tools by teachers will be facilitated by a special teacher training module where they will find it possible to maximize the potential of the technology, whereby technology will indeed be promoting personalized teaching and learning. 

This e-drive is an extension of a larger vision. Delhi aims to install 7,000 smart classrooms, 175 digital libraries, 100 APJ Abdul Kalam Language Labs teaching foreign languages proficiency in English, French, and German, by the year end. It implies greater resources, greater opportunities, and a more internationalist look ahead for the young people of Delhi.

The education leaders of Delhi have turned to other cities to be inspired. Take the example of Gujarat that has already installed more than 1.1 lakh smart classes even in the flood-prone districts. Through such success stories, Delhi is ready to jump forward to the future.

To parents and students, this is not merely a technological update but a commitment  that the government schools will surely provide high-quality education, with a high degree of equity and digital freedom that students deserve to have in the 21st century. In the case of India, it is an example that may spawn other progressive changes in other states to grant all children a level playing field in the digital era, irrespective of their backgrounds.

Education Minister Ashish Sood of Delhi said “We are committed to taking quality education to every corner of Delhi, from Najafgarh to Kirari. This is the first major step towards making Delhi’s government schools better than private schools, not just in infrastructure, but in pedagogy and learning outcomes as well” 

This shows the government of Delhi is looking forward to a future where students get quality education indifferent to the type of institute they are in. This is giving the students of Delhi government schools an assurance that their dreams matter and they can be future ready with the help of advanced classrooms.