The India example initiates the establishment of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) to offer fair, efficient, and digitally-based resolutions to ongoing GST related disputes in the country.

GST Appellate Tribunal started to poke more significant miles to tax dispute settlement in India

In the year 2025, an important move occurred as the formal establishment of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) in New Delhi by India became a significant initiative toward tax governance especially in India. The Tribunal seeks to offer a competitive, effective, and transparent process in settling disputes that relate to GST in order to assist the greater vision by the government of the ease of doing business in Australia. The launch was present at the time when senior government leaders, judiciary members and industry representatives started a new chapter in the indirect tax regime of the country.

Aadhaar-based e-sign verification by ECINET: Electriction Commission is initiated to prevent electoral fraud, manage voters more easily and gain more trust in elections.

Election Commission Announced Aadhaar-based E- Sign in the verification of Voters.

In an effort to boost the integrity of any election, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has made another big move of introducing an Aadhaar based e-sign validation option on its ECINET portal and application in a move aimed at ensuring voter registration, deletion requests and correction requests is mandatory through Aadhaar linked phone numbers. This system was introduced in September 2025. The relocation will help in transparency enhancement, misuse reduction and voter confidence.

A trial version of Agni-Prime is placed on a rail-based launcher that has been successfully launched in India, an achievement in mobility, flexibility, and strategic deterrence services.

India has achieved a new defence level with successfully testing the Agni-Prime intermediate rage ballistic projectile using a rail based mobile launcher system. This has been the opening strike of the Indian missile on its national railway system which has been a breakthrough in strategic deterrence and maneuver.

UNEP has declared the 2025 Young Champions of the Earth awardees based in India, Kenya, and the US, to promote innovations by the youth in waste management, plastic alternatives, and water reuse.

The Young Champions of the Earth program, created by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with climate technology entrepreneur Chris Kemper has concluded winners of the 2025 Young Champions of the Earth program. The 2021 awardees, based in India, Kenya, and the United States are reputationed as innovative groundbreakers who address some of the gravest challenges facing the planet, including plastic pollution and wastewater reuse as well as sustainable materials.

Indeed, the Mahendragiri Hills of Odisha which is a Biodiversity Heritage Site are threatened by the construction tourism projects. To preserve ecology and culture of the tribe activists are demanding biosphere reserve status.

Mahendragiri Hills in Odishi state are some of the most valuable ecological zones in India wherein, expansive construction initiatives are posing increasingly severe threats. Although it was proclaimed a Biodiversity Heritage Site in 2022, recent government-portioned tourism plans have raised concerns by conservationists which have alerted that this sensitive eco-system would be facing permanent damages.