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India-Africa: Leveraging Digital Public Infrastructure for Economic Growth (2025)

India- Africa cooperation has long emphasised development through technology and capacity-building. India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)- the interoperable building blocks of digital identity, payments and data platforms- has been central to its Digital India transformation.

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Department Zero: The Undervalued Sub-Basement of the Economy

They switch the lights on before sunrise. Long before the market registers productivity, women — especially lower-class women — do the invisible work that makes that productivity possible: raising children, preparing food, cleaning, nursing, walking miles for water, looking after elderly relatives, and often working for wages in other people's homes.

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Preserving the Past, Governing the Present: Opportunities and Challenges in India’s Heritage Tourism”

In early 2024, India gave a call to transform the country into a developed nation with a USD 30 trillion economy by the time it complete 100th year of Independence.

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From Diaries to Decisions: Leveraging Participatory Action Research to Advance Female Athlete Health in India

Female athletes in India face multidimensional challenges, ranging from menstrual health stigma and nutrition deficiencies to infrastructural barriers. Conventional top-down research often fails to capture these lived realities.

Security

India-USA 2025: Strengthening Space Security & Cyber Defence Cooperation

Since the early 2000s, India and the United States have gradually deepened their strategic partnership, moving beyond trade and culture toward technologies, defence, and security. Space and cyberspace have emerged as domains of critical importance due to their increasing role in national security, economic infrastructure, and strategic competition.

National Knowledge Research

Transforming Education and Research: The Impact of India’s National Knowledge Network 2010

The National Knowledge Network (NKN) is an advanced, pan-India network introduced to connect universities, research institutions, libraries, laboratories, healthcare, and agricultural institutions using a high-bandwidth and low-latency backbone. The objective of this network is to enable seamless access to information, creating an efficient knowledge society. without any boundaries or restrictions.

SMART-PDS-2023-2026

SMART-PDS: Scheme for Modernization and Reform through Technology in Public Distribution System

SMART-PDS is a centrally sponsored, technology-oriented reform initiative by the Department of Food & Public Distribution (DFPD), Ministry of Consumer Affairs, aimed at enhancing and consolidating the IT infrastructure of India’s Public Distribution System (PDS). With a total budget of ₹349.9 crore, the three-year (April 2023–March 2026) approved program builds on previous computerisation attempts (End-to-End TPDS and the Integrated Management of PDS/IM-PDS) and introduces a modern, standardized national platform that unifies state and central operations throughout the PDS lifecycle.

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