Every year, over 450 million workers, many of them migrants, engaged in agriculture, construction, street vending, sanitation, and transport are exposed to dangerous heat levels. Now that India has notified heat as a disaster, its success must be measured by whether fewer workers are forced to choose between their health and wages.
The grammar of the West Asia war is changing yet again. While on the battlefront Iran may have comparatively lost in grey-zone warfare, it has been perceived as a winner, even if in wars there are only losers, since it is seen as an unjust aggression given the limited credibility of the US and Israel and the lack of international support, even from their NATO allies.
Mecca Agreement complicates India’s strategic calculus at a time when its key partners are caught in competing conflicts and alliances Insights Anil Trigunayat It is ironic that all of India’s strategic partners are engaged in devastating warfare, adversely impacting her…
The Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS) was introduced in February 2009 as a component of the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) to provide basic financial support to persons with severe or multiple disabilities belonging to economically vulnerable households. The scheme was introduced alongside the Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme as an expansion of NSAP, which was originally launched on 15 August 1995.
Biopharma SHAKTI (Strategy for Healthcare Advancement through Knowledge, Technology and Innovation) was proposed in the Union Budget 2026–27 to develop India as a global biopharma manufacturing hub. The initiative has an outlay of ₹10,000 crore over the next five years and aims to build an ecosystem for the domestic production of biologics and biosimilars (Government of India, 2026a). The initiative was announced as part of the Union Government’s broader focus on the healthcare sector under the three Kartavyas outlined in the Union Budget 2026–27: accelerating and sustaining economic growth, fulfilling aspirations and building the capacity of the population, and ensuring access to resources for every family, community, region and sector. Health was identified as an important component of all three priorities.
India generates one of the largest volumes of data globally, yet this data remains fragmented across ministries, institutions, and private silos. This fragmentation posed a critical challenge for students, researchers, and innovators seeking authentic, machine-readable, and India-specific datasets. Consequently, reliance on Western datasets like ImageNet has been noted as a contributing factor to the limited representation of India's linguistic diversity, socio-economic realities, and local contexts in AI models.
The electronic National Pension System (eNPS) is the online platform of India’s National Pension System (NPS), developed to enable seamless digital registration, contribution, and account management. NPS itself was introduced by the Government of India initially only for Central Government employees (except armed forces) joining service on or after 1 January 2004, replacing the earlier defined-benefit pension system, and was extended to all citizens on a voluntary basis from May 2009. It is regulated by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) under the PFRDA Act, 2013 (effective 1 February 2014) (Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, n.d.; PFRDA, 2025).