The report precedes the Second World Summit for Social Development in Doha (November 2025) , marking the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Copenhagen Summit on Social DevelopmentKey Highlights Of The Report

India has expanded its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) services to Qatar.

E-governance in India has evolved from a backend administrative mechanism into a transformative force, reshaping the way the state interacts with its citizens.

These initiatives directly take forward the vision articulated during the 7th Meeting of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL).

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has released a study examining AI’s significant impact on India’s market dynamics, competition, and regulatory framework.

Decline in Global Tobacco Use: The global prevalence of current tobacco use among adults significantly dropped from 26.2% (2010) to 19.5% (2024).

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell (USA) and Shimon Sakaguchi (Japan) for their discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance.

Marine Biodiversity Treaty is formally known as the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement).

According to the Sample Registration System (SRS) statistical report, 2023 shows Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for rural India for the first time touched 2.1, the replacement rate.

Recently, concerns over Big Tech’s dominance in AI have grown, with U.S. courts examining Google’s monopoly in search, including the use of AI. At the same time, two authors sued Apple in federal court, accusing it of using their books without permission to train its “OpenELM” AI model by adding them to a pirated dataset without consent, credit, or payment. These cases reflect a growing trend of legal challenges against AI firms over the use of copyrighted content in training Generative AI LLMs and creating a digital monopoly on the internet.

The Prime Minister paid tribute to freedom fighters Tiruppur Kumaran and Subramaniya Siva on their birth anniversary.

Recently, multiple landslides were triggered by heavy rain in the Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal.