The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) India successfully organized a conference on “Building Together a Clean Sport Ecosystem” today at the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi. The event, held as part of Play True Week 2025, brought together a wide spectrum of stakeholders committed to fostering a clean, fair, and values-based sporting environment in India.
One of the key moments of the inaugural session was the unveiling of “NADA India’s Fair Play Guide” in ten different regional languages, aimed at making clean sport education more accessible to athletes and stakeholders across the nation. Participants also engaged in a pledge signing ceremony to reaffirm their commitment to fair play and doping-free sport.
The 3rd edition of the Indian Navy’s Meteorological and Oceanological Symposium - Meghayan 25 – was held on 14 Apr 25, to commemorate the formation of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and celebrating WMO Day 2025.
In keeping with the quest for continuous improvement of meteorological services within the Indian Navy, Meteorological and Oceanographic Satellite Data Archival Centre - Indian Navy (MOSDAC-IN) web services, a joint collaboration between the Directorate of Naval Oceanology and Meteorology (DNOM) and SAC was officially launched by Dr Nilesh Desai.
The symposium also saw the revival of its professional Meteorological and Oceanological journal after a gap of almost 10 years. The 10th edition of “Sagarmanthan” was launched during Meghayan 25. The seminar was organised to align with this year’s WMO Day theme - ‘Closing the Early Warning Gap Together’.
The Ministry of Ayush conducted a session of the Rashtriya Karmayogi Jan Seva Programme at Ayush Bhawan today, aimed at enhancing the service orientation and professional skills of its employees. The programme was organised in collaboration with the Capacity Building Commission under the Mission Karmayogi framework.
The programme included four focused sessions covering themes such as self-awareness, motivation, and leadership. Case studies from ongoing initiatives in Ayurveda, Yoga, and other traditional medicine systems were shared to provide practical context.
The Ministry of Mines has issued the guidelines for setting up of Centres of Excellence (CoE) under the National Critical Mineral Mission (NCMM). This is in pursuance to a key pillar of the Mission, which is research and technology development in critical minerals.
CoEs will identify, develop and implement extraction process and beneficiation technologies for a host of critical minerals from multiple sources and conduct directed R&D to reach TRL 7 / 8 pilot plant and pre-commercial demonstration and create a competency center.
Under this new initiative, reputed academic/R&D institutions, as per eligibility prescribed, will be evaluated and recognized as CoEs for R&D in critical minerals. CoEs will undertake innovative and transformational research to strengthen and advance the nation’s science and technology capability in the area of critical minerals.
A CoE will operate as a consortium, on a Hub & Spoke model, to leverage R&D in critical minerals and pooling the core competence of each constituent under one umbrella. The CoE (Hub Institute) will bring in at least two industry partners and at least two R&D/ academic partners in the consortium.
In Shooting, the Indian pair of Inder Singh Suruchi and Saurabh Chaudhary clinched a gold medal beating Chinese duo of Qianxun Yao and Kai Hu by 17-9 in the finals of 10 metre Air Pistol Mixed Team event at ISSF World Cup 2025 in Lima, Peru.
Earlier, the Indian mixed duo of Olympic medalist Manu Bhakar and Ravinder Singh missed out on a podium finish after losing to Chinese pair of Qianke Ma and Yifan Zhang in the crucial Bronze medal match.
India’s economy is projected to grow by 6.5% in 2025, supported by strong public spending and continuing monetary easing, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Despite a slowdown from the estimated 6.9% growth in 2024, India is forecast to be the fastest growing economy.
The UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in its new report, 'Trade and Development Foresights 2025 - Under pressure: Uncertainty reshapes global economic prospects', said that global growth is projected to slow to 2.3 per cent in 2025, placing the world economy on a recessionary path.
UNCTAD projects that the South Asia region will expand by 5.6 per cent in 2025, as declining inflation opens the way for monetary loosening across most of the region.
Fitch Ratings has trimmed India’s GDP growth forecast for FY25 by 10 basis points to 6.2 per cent, citing a worsening global economic environment caused by the escalating trade tensions between the US and China. The rating agency also cut its FY26 forecast to 6.4 per cent (from 6.5 per cent) and pegged FY27 growth at 6.3 per cent.
In a special update to its quarterly global economic outlook, Fitch said it expects world growth to fall below 2% this year. The ratings agency said it had cut its world growth forecast for 2025 by 0.4 percentage points and China and U.S. growth estimates by 0.5 percentage points compared to its March figures.
In a special update to its quarterly global economic outlook, Fitch said it expects world growth to fall below 2% this year. The ratings agency said it had cut its world growth forecast for 2025 by 0.4 percentage points and China and U.S. growth estimates by 0.5 percentage points compared to its March figures.
In a special update to its quarterly global economic outlook, Fitch said it expects world growth to fall below 2% this year. The ratings agency said it had cut its world growth forecast for 2025 by 0.4 percentage points and China and U.S. growth estimates by 0.5 percentage points compared to its March figures.
IDFC FIRST Bank is set to receive a major boost as global investment heavyweights Warburg Pincus and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) step in with a combined infusion of approximately Rs 7,500 crore to fuel the lender's next phase of growth.
The bank’s board on Thursday approved a preferential issue of equity capital amounting to Rs 4,876 crore to Currant Sea Investments B.V., an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, and Rs 2,624 crore to Platinum Invictus B 2025 RSC Ltd, a wholly owned ADIA subsidiary managed by its Private Equities Department, the bank said in an exchange filing.
Its current account-savings account ratio surged from 8.7% to 47.7%, while profit after tax flipped from a Rs.1,944 crore loss in FY19 to a ₹2,957 crore profit in FY24. With the new capital infusion, the bank’s capital adequacy ratio is expected to rise from 16.1% to 18.9%, with its core equity tier-1 ratio climbing to approximately 16.5%, based on its December 2024 capital
A few states recorded retail inflation above the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI)’s medium-term target of 4 per cent in March. According to data released by the National Statistics Office, Kerala recorded an inflation print of 6.59 per cent, Karnataka 4.44 per cent, and Chhattisgarh 4.25 per cent, respectively.
This comes in the backdrop of the consumer price index (CPI)- based retail inflation at the national level easing for the second consecutive month to 3.34 per cent in March — its lowest level since August 2019 (3.28 per cent), which was led by a decline in food prices and a high base effect.
Meanwhile, Telangana at 1.06 per cent recorded the lowest print in March. This was followed by Jharkhand (2.08 per cent), Andhra Pradesh (2.5 per cent), Gujarat (2.63 per cent), and Rajasthan (2.66 per cent). Only states with a population of more than 5 million, according to the 2011 census have been taken into consideration.
UK fintech giant Revolut has been granted full approval by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to issue prepaid payment instruments (PPI), such as digital wallets and prepaid cards with India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI). The RBI approval in April 2025 allows Revolut to function as a domestic payment provider in India’s fast-expanding digital economy.
The license, which was obtained less than a year after Revolut got in-principle approval in April 2024, makes the company a contender to compete with well-established players such as PhonePe, Google Pay, and Paytm. Revolut’s mobile wallet will now enable UPI transactions, enabling customers to transfer funds instantly between banks, merchants, and peer-to-peer networks.
Listed fintech company Zaggle has received Third-Party Application Provider (TPAP) approval from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). This significant development enables Zaggle to offer Unified Payments Interface (UPI)-based payment solutions directly through its platform, empowering over 3 million users across its digital ecosystem.
Users will benefit from UPI payments integrated with Zaggle’s multi-wallet prepaid cards, including meal and fuel cards, enabling quick and convenient transactions on thego.The platform will also offer a broad range of embedded financial services powered by UPI rails, such as credit line discovery on UPI, personal loans, fixed deposits, mutual fund investments, BBPS payment
United India Insurance Company Ltd, a public sector non-life insurer, has partnered with the Small Industries Development Bank of India to distribute general insurance products tailored for the MSME sector. The tie-up aims to provide comprehensive insurance solutions — including home, health, motor, and engineering products to SIDBI’s customer base across its 123 branches.
“This partnership marks a significant move towards offering customized insurance solutions to MSMEs, a sector central to India’s economic growth,” said Mathew George, Executive Director, UIICL. Ravindran A.L., Chief Business Officer, SIDBI, described the collaboration as “a step forward in delivering integrated financial and insurance services under one roof.”
The Digital Lenders Association of India (DLAI), a deemed self-regulatory organisation for the fintech sector (SRO-FT), is rebranding itself as Unified Fintech Forum (UFF). FlexiLoans co-founder Manish Lunia was elected as the president, whereas MobiKwik co-founder was elected as the vice-president of the organisation’s executive committee.
The body represents 120 members in regulated and unregulated firms engaged in digital financial services. An SRO is a non-government organisation that acts as a bridge between industry players and the regulator, and sets standards for the conduct of entities operating in the country. DLAI was established in 2016 as a not-for-profit company.
The body represents 120 members in regulated and unregulated firms engaged in digital financial services. An SRO is a non-government organisation that acts as a bridge between industry players and the regulator, and sets standards for the conduct of entities operating in the country. DLAI was established in 2016 as a not-for-profit company.
The Experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) group of Bose Institute (BI), currently consisting of Faculty members- Prof. Supriya Das, Dr. Sidharth Kumar Prasad and Dr. Saikat Biswas, Post Doctoral Fellow- Dr. Sanchari Thakur and Senior Research Fellow- Mr. Mintu Haldar, has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize 2025 in Fundamental Physics as a part of ALICE at CERN.
The $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is awarded to thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries representing four experimental collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb. The Institute joined ALICE Collaboration under the leadership of Prof. Sibaji Raha, former Director of Bose Institute as Principal investigator.
Bose Institute, Kolkata is the only Autonomous Institute under Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, working in A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at CERN along with many other collaborators in India. The PMD was commissioned in ALICE in the year 2008 and participated in the data taking program till 2018.
A new type of Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is being used after the upgrade of the ALICE so as to cater to the high luminosity environment expected at the LHC facility. This device relies on the intrinsic ion back flow (IBF) suppression of Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) based technology in particular the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM).
