This is Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD), a viral illness that is widespread among children, and is spreading quickly in Delhi and the neighbouring state, Haryana, in 2025. Administration of schools and health authorities have taken warnings to parents and teachers and advised them to be careful since the infection is, to a large extent, an infection of children below the age of ten years.

The Gujarat government has made an essential step in enhancing education by introducing two massive support programs in March 2024. These initiatives are geared towards lessening the financial constraints of students, especially girls, and learners in the science stream, as it is part of the vision to have a developed India by 2047. Over 12 lakh students have benefited a little over one year and the total disbursements have gone beyond 1,161 crore.

According to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 shows that the global innovation environment is undergoing a transformation. Although the industries are being transformed by the fast development in artificial intelligence and quantum computing, the overall rate of research and development (R&D) investment has decreased drastically.

An innovation in the field of analytical chemistry has taken the ion chromatography, which was a preserve of advanced laboratories, to the arena. Scientists at the University of Tasmania have come up with a nitrate and nitrite detecting ion chromatograph, called Aquamonitrix, which is a portable device that could help detect nitrate and nitrite in the soil pore waters in real-time. Such innovation makes environmental monitoring cheaper, accessible and practical and is also a useful educational instrument.

The inaugural national conference of Legislative and Parliamentary committees on women empowerment was in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, and it ended with the Tirupati Resolution. It has developed a holistic approach to achieve women empowerment in the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047, the national development of India, in the centre of women.