The Indian rivers have started to show improvement, and there is some slight decrease in the level of pollution which was reported in 2023. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) reports that few places along the rivers where people could no longer bath has been reduced and this is a small though positive sign of clean waterways. The main measurement that is employed in assessing this development is the Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) that is one of the prime indicators of organic pollution in water.

Traditional medicine will still be very important in the healthcare of the world in 2025. It is also strongly practised by 88% of the member states of the World Health Organization. Traditional medicine is often the main choice of healthcare as it is cheap and accessible to many billions of people, especially in the low- and middle-income countries. It promotes biodiversity, nutrition and livelihoods besides healthcare. The world market is performing well; its sales are projected to reach 583 billion growing 10 to 20 percent rate/year. There is the shift in areas such as China, Australia and India where major sectors are taken up by these countries demonstrating the movement of the world to preventive health care.

As economies undergo global transitions, Indian economic policy in 2025 will focus more on developing the household consumption as its driving force of its multiplex economic growth. Although the government is experiencing strong, though headwinds in private investment and net exports, the net exports cannot hold the high economic momentum unless the government spending holds the course. The policymakers are seeking to increase the rate of growth in India which currently stands at approximately 6.5 percent to about 8 percent per annum or more.

The recent tensions in trade between India and the United States have ended up mobilizing on the issue of corn imports, which indicates the wider variations in the agricultural policy, trade priorities and political interests. When the U.S. is trying to make India take importations of American maize, India is mostly independent considering the fact it is a careful country and does not want to jeopardize its maize market.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India has opened its On-Line Short-Term Internship Programme initiation in September 2025, which helps build youth-awareness as to the issue of human rights advocacy and their protection. Among many applicants of 896, 80 students chosen to be in this two-week programme, which takes place between the 22 September and the 3 October, came in 21 States and Union Territories.