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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh released ‘RAKSHA’ in New Delhi this week, a structured ten-year roadmap for India’s global defence partnerships built around four pillars: strategic partnerships, capacity building through joint exercises and training, indigenous defence exports under Make in India, and maritime security anchored in India’s role as Net Security Provider and First Responder in […]

India’s National Statistical Office recently released updated National Accounts Statistics placing manufacturing sector Gross Value Added at ₹38.6 lakh crore for 2023-24, or 14.7 percent of GDP. When independent economists cross-checked that figure against other official data sources, they arrived at a substantially lower estimate — around ₹27.4 lakh crore — a gap of roughly

For decades, India has tracked its industrial output monthly through the Index of Industrial Production, while the sector that actually generates more than half the country’s Gross Value Added — services — had no equivalent high-frequency measure at all. That gap has now closed. MoSPI released its third trial round of the new Index of

The Reserve Bank of India’s Unified Lending Interface has moved well past pilot stage, now connecting 64 lenders and 136 data services, with officials pitching it as the lending-sector equivalent of UPI — a platform capable of cutting Kisan Credit Card approval times from four-to-six weeks down to as little as ten minutes by pulling

India is observing National Nutrition Week from September 1 to 7, the annual awareness campaign meant to spotlight balanced diets, maternal and infant nutrition, and the broader fight against malnutrition. It’s a worthy observance, and the government’s messaging around it — anganwadi outreach, dietary awareness drives, school-level nutrition education — reflects a genuine and long-running