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India’s economy is expected to grow in the range of 6.3% and 6.8% in 2025-26 from an estimated 6.4% this year, according to the Economic Survey for 2024-25, tabled in Parliament It noted that the fundamentals of the domestic economy remain robust, with upsides to investment, output, and disinflation in the coming year, peppered by “equally strong, prominently extraneous, downsides”. The goal of a ‘Viksit Bharat’ in the 100th year of Independence, the Survey’s authors emphasised, will require about 8% growth for at least a decade — with the investment rate rising from the current rate of 31% of GDP to 35% of GDP and laid out a policy action agenda to exceed the current growth trajectory.
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A first-of-its-kind study commissioned by the Delhi government has detected microplastics in groundwater samples across the Capital, an interim report of the study was submitted last November to the Delhi government, which has not yet made it public. Though the main aim of the study was to ascertain microplastics in groundwater, their presence was also found in the Yamuna’s water and soil samples from its banks. This suggests that the groundwater has been polluted with microplastics due to leaching effect from the river.
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A new study found that the tiger population in India had increased by 30% over the past two decades. The study, published in science, was led by senior scientist Yadvendra Dev Jhala and colleagues. It explored the socio-ecological factors that had enabled tiger recovery and persistence despite high human densities and economic challenges amid rapid urbanisation. "They found that the tiger population in India has increased by 30% over the past two decades. This demonstrates the remarkable success achieved through a meticulous balance of scientific strategies and a strategic blend of land-sharing and land-sparing," the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) said. It added that despite harbouring the highest hu-man population residing in economically diverse regions, India has achieved significant success in con-serving wildlife, even as global wildlife populations have declined by 73%. As per government data released on July 26, 2024, India is home to 70% of the world's wild tiger population.
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Parliament's Budget session has begun amid a significantly changed backdrop. India's growth is seen faltering after four years of healthy post-pandemic growth, the stock markets are tumbling, the rupee is losing ground faster than expected, and the major drivers that have been spurring the economy - domestic demand and public sector capex are sputtering, while private investments remain insipid. For context, the five years from 2019-20 to 2023-24 have seen government capex increase at a com-pounded annual growth rate of 16%, household investments by 12%, while corporate outlays were up only 6%, despite a steep tax rate cut for them. The Survey's prognosis that real GDP growth may be in the range of 6.3% to 6.8% in 2025-26, from the 6.4% pace estimated for this year, acknowledges that economic momentum may slip further in the face of new headwinds.
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Indians are now the second largest group of citizens being granted U.S. citizenship legally (after Mexico) and have cornered a predominant share of H-1B visas; but they are also the third largest in terms of illegal entry. Mr. Trump's actions will affect not just thousands of Indians who undertake perilous journeys by air and sea, and then by foot over South and Central America and Canada to the U.S.'s land borders, but also those currently in the U.S. A Pew Research analysis of ICE numbers says 7.25 lakh Indians are amongst about 14 million in the total undocumented migrants, with more than 18,000 Indians in detention centres on a "final removal list" for deportation.
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Four years after the military coup on February 1, 2021, Myanmar, 'the sick man of Southeast Asia,' continues to traverse a dismal path. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) estimated that, as of January 29, 2025, the military arrested 28,405 people, of whom 21,683 were still detained, and that it killed 6,224 people with around 2,900 treated as "need to be verified killed persons." Besides, over 3.3 million people are now internally displaced across the country. The crisis began in early 2021 when the military did not like the results of the elections held in November 2020 that gave Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy victory. The 10-year-old experiment in limited democracy was rudely terminated as tanks rolled into the streets.
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The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) outlined a process for private entities to gain access to Aadhaar authentication: namely, the firms will have to refer their use case to a Union or State government Ministry or Department, which will then have to refer the proposal to the UIDAI. The Aadhaar Authentication for Good Governance (Social Welfare, Innovation, Knowledge) Amendment Rules, 2025, make these additions to a brief frame-work originally published in 2020. Language in the earlier rules that described their purpose as in the "interest of good governance, pre-venting leakage of public funds" has been removed
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India will need to focus on indigenisation of technology and raw materials as an "urgent task" to achieve the transition to electric mobility, even as the global automobile industry looks to reduce its dependence on China, the Economic Survey said. While electric mobility plays a key role in India's journey towards energy transition and diversification away from fossil fuels, the country needs to be cautious about the extent of imports in this area, the report noted. "Import intensity of e-vehicle production especially from countries with whom India has persistent and large trade deficits is very high. The extent to which electric mobility is incentivised in the short run needs to keep this factor in mind," the Survey said.
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India must harness its "best resources, advanced technologies, and expertise" to become a developed nation by 2047 while ensuring a low-carbon pathway. However, it shouldn't shut its coal-fired plants "without adequate alternatives", the Economic Survey noted. "The energy transitions witnessed till the last century were driven by commercial interests rather than the will to limit the emissions from advanced economies. Commercial interests and energy security remain the most significant factors in the transition pathway even today, the document underscored. In 2022, the Survey said in a chapter on climate adaptation, the European Union introduced the repower EU plan, to disengage from Russian gas supplies. The plan includes a budget of €10 billion (₹90,000 crore) for investments in liquefied natural gas infrastructure and an additional €1.5 to 2 billion (18,000 crore) designated for securing oil supplies.
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Pointing towards a decrease in regular jobs and shift towards casual employment, the Economic Survey tabled in Parliament on Friday found that the proportion of self-employed workers in the workforce has risen from 52.2% in 2017-18 to 58.4% in 2023-24. "This shift reflects growing entrepreneurial activity and a preference for flexible work arrangements," the Survey claimed. It added that the agriculture sector still re-mains dominant in employment, with its share rising from 44.1% in 2017-18 to 46.1% in 2023-24. The share of workers (male and female) in regular or salaried jobs de creased from 22.8% to 21.7% during the same period.
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