On 2 ndd September, Semicon India 2025 was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, an important move toward India becoming a global semiconductor hub. The semiconductor journey has attracted international attention with more than 20,750 attendees (2,500 representing 48 countries) taking part in the three-day semiconductor event (2-4 September).

The Government of India has stepped up to recheck and revise the list of beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY). This is geared towards, ensuring that free ration benefits are availed to the truly deserving population, and the escalating food subsidy burden is met. Other states such as Rajasthan and Odisha have already deleted the millions of ineligible beneficiaries through a data check and voluntary surrender drive.

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.