India’s Development Partnership Cooperation completed seventy-five years in 2022. Quick Impact Projects started by the Government of India are a crucial part of the Development Partnerships. These projects were announced for Lower Mekong Region countries, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV).
Borders are the synonyms of sovereignty and ensure the country's dignity by establishing its powers and control within its territories, as a result, it becomes essential to develop border infrastructure for better movement and defense of the country. For infrastructure upliftment, the Government of India has undertaken an initiative “ Vibrant Village Programme” (VVP) for the development and empowerment of villages near India’s international borders with Nepal and China.
The three-day Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) summit culminated with the unanimous adoption of the New Delhi Declaration on December 14. The event spanned over 30 sessions engaging stakeholders from GPAI, International Organizations, Entrepreneurs, and domain experts.
Electoral bonds are interest-free bearer bonds that are treated as money instruments that companies and individuals in India can purchase from authorized branches of the State Bank of India (SBI). Electoral bonds are issued in the denominations of Rs 1,000, Rs 10,000, Rs 1 lakh, Rs 10 lakh, and Rs 1 crore.
Manual scavenging, in India, is a caste-based-forced occupation, and due to this Scheduled Castes (SCs) have been associated with the menial task of cleaning human excreta more than an occupation it has become a social norm that continues persistently despite all the available technology and alternatives. Despite a restriction on this practice manual scavenging is still prevalent according to the Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011, there are about 1.8 lakh Indian households that rely on manual scavenging for their survival; and Maharashtra has the highest number of manual scavengers (i.e. 63,713), followed by Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, and Karnataka.
Maldives is an archipelagic nation, that has a strategic location in the middle of the Indian Ocean that also caters to the needs of India’s neighbor China to expand its developmental ties by including Maldives in the Border Road Initiative (BRI) and String of Pearls. Maldives has strategic importance to India as well and its location caters to the hub of commercial sea lanes that run via the Indian Ocean. Hence India and Maldive's relationship is significant for political, economic, and social cooperation at the global level as well.
In the ever-evolving landscape of science and technology, the field of biotechnology stands at the forefront of innovation.