With nearly 65% of India’s population below the age of 35, the government has placed young people at the centre of its Viksit Bharat@2047 vision. A new government assessment released on August 13 highlights the scale of programmes created over the past decade to provide young Indians with greater access to education, skills, employment opportunities, entrepreneurship, public service and competitive sport.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met Indonesia’s Vice Minister of Finance Juda Agung during the BRICS gathering on Thursday. According to India’s Ministry of Finance, the discussions covered financial-sector development, stronger trade relations and greater institutional cooperation between the two major Indo-Pacific economies.
The ID is assigned to water supply service areas that meet prescribed standards under the Mission. It allows authorities to systematically identify, monitor, track and verify rural habitations that achieve targeted drinking water service outcomes.
According to information provided by the Ministry of Jal Shakti in Parliament, 5,63,809 of India’s 5,86,944 villages had been covered by Liquid Waste Management arrangements as of August 7, 2026. The figures are based on information uploaded by States and Union Territories to the SBM(G) Integrated Management Information System.
The plant also occupies an interesting position between classical Ayurveda and India’s regional medicinal traditions. Names such as Bhunimba, literally suggesting a small or ground-growing neem-like herb, reflect its remarkable bitterness rather than any botanical relationship with the Neem tree.
GARUD offers 8x magnification and a wide 7.6-degree field of view, enabling clear observation of distant objects while retaining a broad viewing perspective. The binocular features ±5 diopter adjustment to accommodate individual eyesight, soft-touch eyecups for comfortable extended viewing and a secure, ergonomic grip. Its weather-resistant construction enables reliable use across varied outdoor conditions.
The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre, or IN-SPACe, has granted 113 authorisations to 52 Non-Government Entities.
Pandorum’s work does not yet amount to manufacturing complete human organs ready for routine transplantation. Instead, the company is constructing functional tissue-like structures and regenerative environments that reproduce selected biological, structural and mechanical characteristics of native human tissue.
The Mahabharata describes Bharata overpowering lions, tigers, elephants, buffaloes and other wild animals and even binding them to trees, while the specific scene in which he attempts to count the teeth of a lion cub appears more explicitly in Kalidasa’s later drama Abhijnanashakuntalam. Kalidasa’s scene is therefore a vivid dramatic development of the extraordinary childhood already described in the Mahabharata.
Goyal said India achieved record exports of $863 billion last year. This included $442 billion in merchandise exports and $421 billion in services exports.
