India has been ranked 40th out of 53 countries on a global intellectual property index 2020. India was placed at 36th position among 50 countries in 2019. India’s score, however, increased from 36.04% (16.22 out of 45) in 2019 to 38.46% (19.23 out of 50) in 2020, a 2.42% jump in an absolute score.  The index was released as part of the annual report prepared by the Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) of the US Chambers of Commerce.

SenRa, a PAN India LoRaWAN Network Operator for IoT, announced the successful deployment of their LoRaWAN Network across 60 cities in India. This achievement marks yet another major milestone in their journey of becoming one of the leading IoT network providers in India. SenRa is on track to deploy its public LoRaWAN network in 100 cities by the end of 2020 which will be critical in supporting the massive IoT deployments in Smart Cities led by utilities and energy metering projects.

The central government will be releasing a report card of 100 selected smart cities in three categories-ease of living, municipal, performance index and climate-in June, as the government's Smart Cities Project completes five years. The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry said that it will help cities in better planning and moving towards data-driven governance that will eventually improve their liveability.

Power PSUs'' joint venture EESL is set to ramp up its capital expenditure to set up around 10,000 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in the next two to three years. The Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has undertaken this project to boost the e-mobility ecosystem in India. It has tied up with various private and public companies such as Apollo Hospitals, BSNL, Maha-Metro, BHEL and HPCL, among others, to set up public charging infrastructure.

Power PSUs'' joint venture EESL is set to ramp up its capital expenditure to set up around 10,000 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in the next two to three years. The Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has undertaken this project to boost the e-mobility ecosystem in India. It has tied up with various private and public companies such as Apollo Hospitals, BSNL, Maha-Metro, BHEL and HPCL, among others, to set up public charging infrastructure.

India will not bar any equipment suppliers, such as China's Huawei, in the upcoming trials for 5G.  Telecom Minister said that the government will allocate airwaves to all telecom service providers for conducting trials of super-fast speed 5G networks. Huawei rivals western equipment makers, such as Ericsson, and is banned in the US. Many countries, however, have allowed telecom service providers to use Chinese gears. And now, India has also indicated its unwillingness to keep any company out of 5G trials.

NITI Aayog will develop a National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP) to make all government data accessible to stakeholders in a user-friendly manner. Releasing the Vision Document for NDAP, Niti Aayog said that the NDAP will strive to ensure that the data is assured, consistent, coherent and credible. According to the vision document, data across sectors should be coherent to support analysis and dissemination. The NDAP will host multiple datasets, present them coherently and provide visualisation and analytics tools.

The union cabinet has approved sanctions for Digital India, a campaign intended to transform the nation into digital empowered society and knowledge economy, with a cost of Rs 113,000 crore (14 billion Euro). This programme envisaged by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), is to impact the ministry of communications & IT, ministry of rural development, ministry of human resource development, ministry of health and others. This programme will also benefit all states and union territories.

Union Minister for Commerce and Industry said that Indian industry has to align with global standards to speed up the vision of Make in India. He said, quality of the final product cannot be compromised as it is the deciding factor of industry's competitiveness. He also added that any country which does not allow equal, reciprocal access to our products and services in their country, government will not allow them to participate in governmental contracts in India.

The government will soon frame efficiency parameters for batteries powering EVs as it invites bids for setting up gigafactories or giant battery plants in India. A high-level panel has been set up under the Bureau of Energy Efficiency to frame performance criteria and efficiency parameters that can help battery swapping in EVs. Battery swapping will allow consumers to replace depleted batteries with fully charged ones. This can only happen once standards and parameters are in place and adhered to by all battery manufacturers.