India and Brazil have made a big leap into building their agricultural relationship as the second version of the Brazil-India Cross-Incubation Programme in Agritech known as Maitri 2.0 was launched. This initiative that was unveiled in New Delhi under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will participate in the encouragement of innovation, co-creation and sustainable solution in the agribusiness world. It indicates the long-term cooperation between the two states that are over 77 years.

The ministry of tribal affairs in India has created the Adi Karmayogi Abhiyan, which was introduced in 2025 in cooperation with the United Nations in India, and is being touted as the largest tribal grassroots leadership movement in the world. The campaign will turn governance into a people's movement and make the voice of the tribals central to the growth story of India, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 17 September 2025 on the occasion of Janjatiya Gaurav Varsh.

The first confirmed sighting of the elusive Fishing Cat ( Prionailurus viverrinus ) was reported to be in the Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve (RVTR) in Rajasthan. This discovery was made at the captured camera traps on a regular tiger check in the Bundi district and brings about the concealed biodiversity of the reserve and the flourishing aquatic environment.

A group of scientists at Madura College, Madurai have discovered a new plant species in the Kudremukh range of the Western Ghats in Karnataka. The plant was named Impatiens selvasinghii in honor of the efforts by Professor P. Selva Singh Richard in the reproductive biology of endangered and endemic plants in the area. This not only shows the spectacular richness of the Western Ghats but also indicates some serious conservation concerns raised by the increasing levels of tourism.

The System for Pension Administration - Raksha (SPARSH) has become a pioneer project in the modernisation of the Indian defence pension administration. Since its introduction to eliminate the sluggish and discrepant legacy processes, SPARSH has become the largest digital pension platform in the world to serve defence personnel. It has also been able to onboard more than 31.5 lakh pensioners in India and Nepal by 2025, which guarantees efficiency, transparency and timely payment of pensions.