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Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)- 2020

The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) is an initiative that was introduced by the Government of India as a historic move to establish a national digital health infrastructure. It is a continuation of the former National Digital Health Blueprint and the National Digital Health Mission. The objective is to create a national health ecosystem through federated architecture and interoperable digital public goods, which connects patients, providers, health professionals and facilities regardless of geography and organisational silos.

climate

Greening India’s Future: Building Climate-Resilient Cities (2025)

India is experiencing rapid urbanization, with over 35% of its population now residing in cities—a figure projected to reach 40% by 2035. While urban growth drives economic development, it has also intensified ecological stress, reducing green cover and increasing vulnerabilities to climate change.

Prime Minister’s New 15-Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities (2025)

Prime Minister’s New 15-Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities (2025)

The Prime Minister’s New 15-Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities is a major national initiative of the Government of India aimed at ensuring equitable access to development for minority communities. Introduced to integrate minority welfare with mainstream development planning, the programme focuses on education, skill development, livelihood enhancement, security, and social empowerment.

India–Australia: Strengthening QUAD Defence Interoperability

India–Australia: Strengthening QUAD Defence Interoperability

In the 21st century, the Indo-Pacific has emerged as the epicentre of global geopolitics due to shifting power dynamics, competing naval claims, supply-chain competition, and increased defence postures. With the Indo-Pacific region lofty ambitions to become the world's strategic and economic centre of gravity, partnerships among like-minded democracies continue to grow in significance. In this regard, the India–Australia relationship has become a fundamental stabilising element in the broader Quad Security Dialogue (QUAD) context.

Defence

India–Bhutan: Defence Infrastructure and Training Cooperation

Bhutan, one of the most important countries from a Geostrategic angle, is located between Tibet and North-East India and also to the nearest points of the Chumbi Valley of Tibet, Sikkim and the Eastern borders at the same time the proximity of Bhutan from the Siliguri corridor which is the connecting point of the seven north eastern states of India is crucial for both India and Bhutan.

The Hallyu Ascendancy and India's Soft Power Ceiling: A Geocultural Analysis for India-South Korea Bilateral Relations

The Hallyu Ascendancy and India’s Soft Power Ceiling: A Geocultural Analysis for India-South Korea Bilateral Relations

The Korean wave, etymologically known as the hallyu, refers to the soft power of the Korean popular culture that originated in Southeast Asia, first in mainland China and eventually spreading across Asia in the late 1990s. The transnational cultural influence of the K-wave in the postmodern era is one of a kind due to the decisive yet dominant nature of ‘compressed modernity’. South Korea experienced a century's worth of economic growth-led cultural influence within the span of a few decades. The phenomenon of ‘Miracle on the Han River’ transformed a war-ravaged South Korea that was one of the 25 poorest countries in the world in the 1960s into an advanced economy built on technology and innovation, with the help of the International Development Association of the World Bank. 

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