According to report, rising levels of committed expenditure are constraining the fiscal space of states, thereby squeezing their ability to undertake development-oriented spending.

India AI Governance Guidelines are a comprehensive framework to ensure safe, inclusive, and responsible AI adoption across sectors.

Income: 83% of countries have high income inequality (i.e., a Gini coefficient above 0.4), accounting for 90% of the world’s population.

Startup QNu Labs, supported under the National Quantum Mission (NQM), successfully demonstrated India's first extensive QKD network, spanning over 500 kilometers.

Neurotechnology encompasses both hardware and software that directly measure, access, monitor, analyse, predict or modulate the nervous system to understand, influence, restore or anticipate its structure, activity and function. E.g., brain-computer interface (BCI)

NexCAR19 therapy was developed for B-cell blood cancers by ImmunoACT (a company incubated under IIT Bombay, and Tata Memorial Hospital), supported by DBT and BIRAC.

India saw a record rise in Indian universities featured in the QS Asia University Rankings 2026 from 24 universities in 2016 to 294 in 2026, only behind China’s 395 institutions featured in the list.

Rankings were given in the World Cooperative Monitor 2025, produced by International Cooperative Alliance (ICA).

Of late, major global bodies in the economic, cultural, and political spheres, once seen as impartial, are increasingly aligning with a specific, interventionist strand of the US foreign policy, eroding their credibility and creating a "legitimacy gap" on the world stage.

Though there is a decline in Consequential Train Accidents from 135 in 2014-15 to 31 in 2024-25, yet accidents including derailments, collisions, etc., continue to occur due to multiple reasons.

The scheme aims to strengthen India’s capabilities in strategic technologies and promote technological self-reliance, aligning with the nation’s long-term innovation and Atmanirbhar Bharat vision.

The Indian IT industry is undergoing major transformation due to automation, shifting global trends, steepest workforce layoffs, and evolving skill needs.