Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Gujarat has emerged as a pioneer in India's artificial intelligence landscape with the establishment of its Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence, Gandhinagar. Inaugurated on 27 January 2025 by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, the CoE reflects the state's proactive vision to integrate emerging technologies into governance, industry, and skill development.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) emerged from the Shanghai Five Mechanism established in 1996 by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to address border disputes and build mutual trust. It was formally established as the SCO in June 2001 after Uzbekistan joined. Its founding framework focused on combating terrorism, separatism and extremism, while promoting political, security, economic and connectivity cooperation across Eurasia (Al Jazeera, 2026).
Uttar Pradesh, with a geographical area of 2,40,928 sq km and a projected population of around 23.8 crore, is India’s most populous state and one of its most densely populated. The state is characterised by the fertile Gangetic plains, the densely populated and urbanising belt along the Ganga-Yamuna basin, the relatively water-stressed and economically disadvantaged Bundelkhand region, and significant rural populations dependent on agriculture and allied activities.
On the morning of August 26, a wall of ice, rock and water tore down from Langtang-Lirung through the Bhotekoshi valley into Nepal and Tibet. Villages vanished. Bridges that had stood for generations were gone within minutes. Over 270 bodies have been recovered; more than a thousand people, many of them foreign trekkers on the Langtang route, remain missing.
The launch of the Biopharma SHAKTI (Strategy for Healthcare Advancement through Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation) scheme in the Union Budget 2026–27 marks a decisive structural pivot in India’s health-industrial policy.
India’s export architecture has historically remained concentrated within prominent industrial clusters and metropolitan port cities, leaving the vast economic potential of its interior districts largely underutilized. To address this structural imbalance and drive grassroots economic formalization, the One District One Product (ODOP) initiative was launched.
In the elections to the State Assemblies of Keralam, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam, and the Union Territory of Puducherry, one emerging pattern had been the engagement, or lack thereof, of the younger generation, the Gen Zs in particular, in the electoral process.