Agriculture and allied activities remain central to India’s livelihoods, accounting for 46.1% of the workforce while contributing nearly one-fifth of national income (Economic Survey 2025-26).
Modern production and consumption systems have historically followed a predominantly linear economic model, in which raw materials are extracted, converted into products, consumed and then discarded as waste. This “use-and-throw-away” pattern increases pressure on natural resources and contributes to waste accumulation.
India and Germany have cooperated on energy for decades through platforms such as the Indo-German Energy Forum and the Indo-German Renewable Energy Partnership. This cooperation gained greater political importance in 2022 with the launch of the Green and Sustainable Development Partnership, supported by Germany's commitment of €10 billion in additional development assistance until 2030 (PMO, 2022; MEA/PIB, 2024).
The Indian Army's indigenisation drive runs through the Army Design Bureau and the Directorate of Indigenisation, set up in 2016 as the Army's own interface with domestic industry, DRDO and academia. Each year, the Army identifies the equipment, spares and ammunition it still imports and draws up a plan to move that list onto Indian production, working through the Ministry of Defence's broader Positive Indigenisation Lists (PILs) and the SRIJAN portal, which together ban the import of a growing catalogue of items past fixed timelines. This yearly exercise is what the Army refers to as its Annual Indigenisation Plan.
On 6 August 2026, the Union Cabinet approved GOBARdhan, the National Circular Bioenergy Scheme, with an outlay of ₹23,731 crore for FY 2026-27 to FY 2035-36 (PIB, 2026). Under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) as Nodal agency. Its aim is a nearly ten-fold rise in domestic compressed biogas (CBG) production, large-scale private investment and a circular bioeconomy built on cattle dung, crop residue, press mud, municipal organic waste and other biomass.
The strategic landscape of trilateral economic cooperation in the Indo-Pacific advanced significantly with the convening of the fourth edition of the Japan-India-Africa Business Forum in Tokyo on February 26, 2025 . Operating as a recurring high-level dialogue platform since 2007, the forum was co-hosted by Japan’s METI and Nikkei, drawing over 2,000 delegates, political leaders, and corporate executives from 46 countries and regions (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry [METI], 2025)). A defining milestone of this iteration was the official launch of the Japan–India Cooperation Initiative for Sustainable Economic Development in Africa, unveiled by Japan’s METI Minister, Yoji Muto.
Home to an aboriginal world of flora, fauna and tribal population, Andaman and Nicobar Islands serve as a Union Territory to the Indian administration. It houses an estimated population of 4,34,192 people across 836 islets/islands/rocky outcrops with a total area of 8,249 sq. kms (Andaman and Nicobar Administration, n.d.).