The National Overseas Scholarship Scheme was started by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, to help students from low-income families from marginalized communities to pursue Master’s and PHD programmes from universities abroad.
As India is home to the largest youth population in the world, leveraging their potential is crucial for the country's growth. This demographic dividend must be effectively channelled with adequate opportunities for both personal and professional development. For this reason, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports plays an important role, focusing on personality development, skill enhancement, and capacity-building efforts to empower youth and promote sports in the country.
When we think of governance, most of us imagine big offices, ministers, and heavy paperwork. But real governance, the kind that touches people’s everyday lives, actually happens in villages, in small meetings under trees, or in community halls where someone speaks up about a broken handpump or an unused ration card. That’s the world of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), and it’s a world that runs on the shoulders of thousands of elected representatives, many of whom are women, first-timers, or people who’ve never stepped into a leadership role before.
Swanath Scholarship is thoughtfully designed for students who often fall through the cracks, orphans, wards of armed forces personnel martyred in service, and students who lost one or both parents to COVID-19
The Government of India has promulgated the Aircraft Leasing and Financing Policy (2021) to position India, especially GIFT City (Gujarat International Finance Tec-City), as an aircraft leasing global hub. This was prompted by the realization that more than 80% of India's fleet of aircraft was leased from outside the country, leading to a huge foreign exchange outflow and exposure to foreign jurisdictions in terms of law, such as Ireland and Singapore.
On 24 July 2025, India and the United Kingdom signed the much-awaited India–UK Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)—a Free Trade Agreement that the two prime ministers have described as a 'historic day' for both countries' strategic and economic partnership. This is a landmark in the context of history, where trade had been the backbone of British colonisation and imperialism.