The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, council has appointed another officiating director after a search-and-selection committee failed to select a full-term director, despite initiating the process in May 2025. After the tenure of officiating director Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay expired on December 31, 2025, the chairman of the council appointed Ayanaendranath Basu, the senior-most professor at ISI, as the next officiating director. Koppillil Radhakrishnan, the chairman of the ISI council — the institute’s highest decision-making body on administrative matters — invoked “an emergency” to appoint Basu. This provision allows the council to select an officiating director from among the professors for up to six months. However, ISI teachers are opposed to the move.

Source: The Telegraph January 07, 2026 00:13 UTC