The initiative directly supports the campaign “आपकी पूँजी, आपका अधिकार” — “Your Money, Your Right”, which aims to help citizens identify and reclaim their rightful financial assets. The Department of Financial Services has been running this campaign in coordination with financial sector regulators, banks and other stakeholders to improve awareness, tracing and restitution of unclaimed assets.
India’s digital rise has been built on scale. The country has hundreds of millions of internet users, one of the world’s largest smartphone markets, massive digital payment adoption, a rapidly expanding start-up ecosystem and a growing base of technology workers. This scale gives India a unique advantage. A digital product or public platform that works in India has already been tested in one of the most complex, diverse and high-volume markets in the world.
India’s journey has been remarkable over the long term. Government material had earlier noted that MMR fell from 130 in 2014–16 to 97 in 2018–20, and further official updates placed the figure at 88 per lakh live births before the latest bulletin’s estimate of 87. This shows a consistent downward movement rather than a one-time improvement.
This is significant because digital payments have become one of India’s strongest technology exports. India’s fintech ecosystem, led by fast payment infrastructure, QR-code acceptance and real-time transaction capability, has shown how public digital infrastructure can support everyday commerce at massive scale. The MoU with Vietnam fits into this larger story: India is steadily taking its payment architecture beyond domestic convenience and turning it into a tool of international economic partnership.
SkyCast is important because aviation safety depends heavily on what happens in the lower atmosphere around an airport. Aircraft descent, final approach, landing and take-off are all sensitive to visibility, wind shear, turbulence, moisture, fog density and vertical atmospheric changes. Delhi’s airport faces some of the most difficult winter fog conditions in the country, where dense fog, pollution particles and low visibility can delay flights, divert aircraft and disrupt passenger movement. SkyCast brings these atmospheric details into one integrated monitoring framework.
Operation Sindoor already occupies a major place in India’s contemporary security narrative. According to official government accounts, the operation was launched as a calibrated response to cross-border terrorism, with India targeting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir after detailed multi-agency intelligence identified nine key terror camps, including sites in Bahawalpur and Muridke.
yanmar President U Min Aung Hlaing’s upcoming five-day visit to India marks an important moment
India and Israel have built one of the most practical strategic partnerships of the post-Cold War era. The relationship rests on defence cooperation, counter-terrorism, agriculture, water management, innovation, cybersecurity, space, start-ups, digital technology and political trust. It has grown steadily since the establishment of full diplomatic relations in 1992 and has expanded sharply in the last decade through high-level visits and strategic agreements.
India and South Africa share a relationship that goes far beyond routine diplomacy. The connection carries the memory of anti-colonial struggles, the moral legacy of Mahatma Gandhi’s years in South Africa, the fight against apartheid and a shared commitment to a more balanced global order. Over the decades, this historical bond has matured into a strategic partnership shaped by economic cooperation, people-to-people ties, multilateral engagement and South-South solidarity.
The Vanara force had already achieved the impossible by crossing the ocean through engineering, organisation and morale. Ravana needed to know whether this army was a wild mass of forest warriors or a disciplined invasion force guided by intelligence, leadership and purpose.
