Chinese President Xi Jinping introduced the Global Governance Initiative (GGI) at the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus (SCO Plus) Summit in Tianjin, where China is seen as a major promoter of a more fair international order. The largest SCO meeting ever to date covered member states, dialogue partners like Turkiye and observer states.

The PRATUSH radiometer is a new generation space payload intended to research the Cosmic Dawn, when the earliest stars and galaxies were born. Constructed around a small single-board computer (SBC), which is only a credit-card size, the system will work in lunar orbit to watch faint 21-cm hydrogen line signals lost in Earth-based interference.

India and Japan have signed Agreement on a Joint Credit Mechanism (JCM) as per Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement to broaden carbon trading, increase investments and speed up green innovation. The agreement comes amid the global supply chains disruptions, the US tariff increase on Indian products, and the Chinese ban on the export of rare earth minerals, providing India with an alternative to sustainable development and energy security.

On 1 September 2025, at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, the 21st edition of Exercise Yudh Abhyas, one of the bilateral military exercises between India and the United States, started. The drill will last through to 14 September and involve the troops of the Indian Army-led Madras Regiment and the US-led 1st Battalion 5th Infantry Regiment Bobcats of the Arctic Wolves Brigade Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division.

A group of researchers have reported a unique and fascinating kind of behaviour in killer whales (Orcinus orca) - they give fresh fish to people. They do not just run away in the wild as is the case with wildlife and instead, the whales usually hang about till they get a reaction from the human being before they take or give up their offering.