A stampede occurred at Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, during RCB’s IPL victory parade, which raises questions on Stampede Management in India
The 8th edition of EnviStats India 2025 was released by MoSPI, offering a structured statistical profile of India’s environment.
Tech giants like Google, IBM, and China’s Jiuzhang have developed quantum computing systems crossing 100 qubits, a major milestone. It signals a global race in next-generation computing with implications for national security, economy, and scientific research.
In 2025, India became the 4th largest economy in the world with a GDP of $4.3 trillion. The Union Petroleum Minister recently discussed Indian energy strategy.
With poverty down to 5.3%, distributing food subsidies to 800 million people is fiscally unsustainable and inefficient. There is discussion about reforming India’s food and fertiliser subsidies to improve
efficiency.
India in SDR 2025 has ranked 99th, entering the Top 100 for the first time. Released by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).
India received a 13.7% increase in total FDI (Gross FDI Inflow). But the net FDI (after removing disinvestment) was just $0.4 billion, a huge fall from $44 billion in 2020–21.