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Dragon Fruit Cultivation In Bihar : Assessing the Mukhyamantri Bagwani Mission and Dragon Fruit Vikas Yojana , 2025 -26

Bihar’s agricultural future may increasingly depend not only on how much it produces, but also on what it produces and how much value farmers can obtain from it. In this context, the emergence of dragon fruit, or Kamalam, offers an interesting case of agricultural diversification. Once considered an exotic fruit in Indian markets, dragon fruit has gradually entered India’s commercial horticulture landscape.While dragon fruit is promoted nationally under MIDH,Bihar has introduced a separate state-funded Dragon Fruit Vikas Yojana under the Mukhyamantri Bagwani Mission ,the two are complementary, with MIDH providing the broader technical and institutional horticulture ecosystem and the Bihar scheme providing state-level financial and implementation support for crop expansion.

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From Welfare to Leadership: Shifting the Paradigm of Global Gender Policy: BRICS Women Ministerial Meeting in Kochi (July 6- 9, 2026)

Bringing women to the forefront in the wider political and economic discourse is very crucial for the development of our country and to reach its vision of Viksit Bharat (Developed India ) by 2047. BRICS Women Ministerial Meeting which recently concluded in Kochi, Kerala ( July 6-9) is pointing towards the fact that BRICS under the Indian presidency is formulating a different approach towards women lead development and BRICS countries are leveling up in their agenda of achieving gender equality.

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Digital Tourism Platform (2024) and Data-Driven Destination Governance in India 

India’s tourism system has always been characterized - in the language of none less than the Ministry of Tourism’s own task force - as extremely fragmented, where the country’s Central departments, its state tourism bodies, and many private players have operated separate, incompatible data and service-management infrastructure. This diagnosis took official form for the first time in the National Digital Tourism Mission (NDTM) report,

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Citizen financial cyber fraud reporting and management system (CFCFRMS): strengthening India’s response to digital financial fraud

India’s rapid expansion of digital payments has increased the speed and convenience of financial transactions, but it has also created new avenues for cyber-enabled financial fraud. Since fraudulent funds can be siphoned off quickly, timely reporting and immediate intervention are critical to preventing further financial loss. The Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System (CFCFRMS) was specifically launched to enable immediate reporting of financial frauds and prevent fraudsters from siphoning off funds (Press Information Bureau, 2026). 

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Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (2016): Assessing a Decade of Safer Motherhood

On 9 June 2016, the Government of India launched the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA), a scheme built on a deceptively simple premise: that if every pregnant woman in the country were examined by a qualified physician and appropriately investigated at least once during her second or third trimester, a measurable share of preventable maternal and neonatal deaths could be averted.

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