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Turmeric

National Turmeric Board (2025): Institutionalising India’s Dominance in the Global Spice Trade

India produces and exports turmeric in larger quantities than any other nation; but it took several decades for this spice to have its own organization. This happened when the Ministry of Commerce & Industry set up the National Turmeric Board (NTB) on October 4, 2023, thus carving out an exclusive body to look after its cultivation, research, standards, and export from the ambit of the Spices Board’s broad agenda. This new body was launched officially in New Delhi on 14 January 2025 through the inauguration by the Union Minister Piyush Goyal and appointing Shri Palle Ganga Reddy, the son of a farmer in Nizamabad, as the Board's first Chairman. The establishment of its office took place on 29 June 2025 in Nizamabad, Telangana, through the inauguration of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and allocation of Rs 200 crore to enhance quality of crops, research, and farmers' welfare

AI Mission

Developing IndiaAI`s Dream — Understanding the IndiaAI Compute Pillar’s GPU Infrastructure Growth (2024)

GPU infrastructure is a critical enabler of modern AI development because it provides the computational power required to train large models, process vast datasets, and support high-volume experimentation. This makes it the backbone of any serious AI ecosystem, and its expansion has direct implications for the scale and speed of AI market growth.

New Rehabilitation

From Fragmented and Failing to Integrated: What Delhi’s New Rehabilitation Complex Says About India’s Child Care Institutions

Children enter India’s child care institutions every year, yet many continue to face overcrowding, staff shortages and gaps in rehabilitation. For children in conflict with the law, rehabilitation is especially important because the juvenile justice system is meant to support reintegration rather than simply punish them. Delhi’s proposed rehabilitation complex in Alipur could be an important step in that direction. But can a modern facility solve problems that have existed within the system for years?

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India–UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement 2026: Trade and Investment Cooperation

The India–UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is a major bilateral agreement aimed at deepening trade, investment, and professional mobility between the two economies. Negotiations were formally launched in January 2022 and continued over roughly 15 rounds between 2022 and 2025 (UK Parliament, 2026). The agreement was signed on 24 July 2025 in London by India's Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and the UK's then Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds, and came into effect on 15 July 2026 alongside a companion Agreement on Social Security (Double Contribution Convention, DCC) (PIB, 2026b).

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NITI Aayog – State Support Mission (2025–26): Strengthening Cooperative Federalism and State-Level Development Planning

India’s development depends not only on policies made at the national level but also on how effectively each State and Union Territory (UT) plans and works towards its own development. Every State has different strengths, challenges and priorities. Keeping this in mind, NITI Aayog introduced the State Support Mission to strengthen coordination between the Centre and States/UTs. The Mission aims to help States identify their strengths, set clear development priorities and prepare practical roadmaps for achieving their socio-economic objectives by 2047, while remaining aligned with national priorities.

ESG

Mainstreaming ESG in India’s Industrial Policy: Transitioning from Compliance to Strategic Growth

As India pursues its vision of becoming a $5 trillion economy while fulfilling its Net Zero commitment by 2070, integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles into national industrial policy is no longer optional—it is a strategic necessity. While regulatory bodies like the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) have mandated Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR), ESG adoption remains largely siloed from broader industrial initiatives, including Production Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes. This policy article examines the imperative to shift from "compliance-driven" to "strategy-driven" ESG adoption. It highlights key bottlenecks faced by Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), explores global carbon-trade pressures, and proposes a data-driven policy roadmap to embed sustainability into the core of India’s industrial framework

Supreme court

The Supreme Court Just Caught AI Faking Precedents. The Harder Problem Is What It Cannot Catch.

On 2 July 2026, the Supreme Court of India delivered a judgment unlike any before it. In
Pooja Ramesh Singh v. Jammu and Kashmir Bank, it set aside orders of the NCLT and the
appellate tribunal after discovering that the tribunal had relied on judgments that did not
exist, fabricated by an artificial intelligence tool and cited as if they were law. The Court
declared zero tolerance, held that a decision resting on hallucinated material is no decision
in the eyes of the law, and directed the Bar Council of India to frame guidelines and
disciplinary consequences. Justice Narasimha's bench insisted that a human must remain in the loop at every stage of adjudication.

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