The India Maritime Week (IMW) 2025, inaugurated at the NESCO Exhibition Centre in Mumbai, marks one of the world’s largest maritime gatherings, bringing together over 100 nations, 1,00,000+ delegates, 500 exhibitors, and 350 global speakers. The week-long event thus conducted celebrates not only India’s deep maritime legacy but also its modern ambitions to become a global maritime leader by 2047.
Over the past two decades, India has significantly improved various maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) service indicators. Institutional deliveries, antenatal check-up coverage, immunisation rates, and postnatal care have all shown a sharp and consistent upward trend.
The enactment of India’s Mental Healthcare Act (2017) by the Indian Parliament on April 7, 2017, heralded a transformative, rights-based paradigm shift in the delivery of mental healthcare. The act unequivocally asserts that access to high-quality mental healthcare is an inherent right of individuals living with mental health conditions. Throughout the drafting process and subsequent to its enactment, the act encountered considerable opposition from various stakeholders, notably mental healthcare professionals.
The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was founded in December 1992 to follow up on the progress of Agenda 21 (an action plan for Sustainable Development) and other associated accords, including the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, as well as the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) at the local, national, regional, and international levels.
Two years and two days after the terrorist attack by Hamas fighters from the Gaza Strip that killed around 1,200 Israelis, and the beginning of Israel’s brutal retaliation, that leading genocide scholars and a UN Commission have labelled genocide, a ceasefire plan appears to be taking hold.
The Make in India campaign is a paradigm change in the Indian economic policy that was launched by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in September 2014. It was at this very critical juncture when the world was doubting whether India could sustain its high population birth rates, and at the same time keep up with the economic development process.
India's forests provide the first line of defence against agricultural and industrial pollution. Hence, intense policy interventions are needed to conserve and expand the forest cover of the country in view of fast-tracking climate change.