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Introduction

India’s banking system forms the backbone of economic activity by mobilising savings, facilitating credit, enabling payments, and supporting investment. Over time, the sector has transitioned from manual, branch-centric operations to a technology-driven ecosystem that supports large-scale financial inclusion. As banking operations expand in scale, complexity, and digital intensity, regulatory frameworks require periodic updating to ensure stability, transparency, depositor confidence, and sound governance. The Banking Laws (Amendment) Act, 2025 represents a comprehensive legislative response to these evolving needs.

India’s handicraft sector functions as a large, decentralized livelihood system rooted in rural and semi-urban areas. It supports artisan households through home-based or small-workshop production models that require relatively low capital but generate meaningful value addition. Beyond income, handicrafts sustain community skills transmitted across generations and reinforce cultural continuity through region-specific techniques, motifs, and materials. The sector’s breadth is reflected in hundreds of formally classified craft categories and a wide range of geographically distinctive products with recognized identity value.

Expansion of Banking Activity

Between 2015 and 2025, India’s banking system witnessed substantial expansion in both deposits and credit. Domestic deposits increased from about ₹88 lakh crore to over ₹231 lakh crore, while bank credit rose from nearly ₹67 lakh crore to more than ₹181 lakh crore. This growth reflects rising financial deepening, greater household participation, and increased flow of credit to productive sectors across the economy.

Overview of DHRUV64 Microprocessor

India has achieved an important milestone in its semiconductor journey with the development of DHRUV64, the country’s first fully indigenous 1.0 GHz, 64-bit dual-core microprocessor. Developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing under the Microprocessor Development Programme, DHRUV64 provides India with a reliable domestic processor platform capable of supporting both strategic and commercial requirements. It marks a clear advancement toward technological self-reliance in advanced chip design.

India is transitioning its maritime sector towards sustainability to balance economic growth with environmental protection. With a long coastline rich in mangroves, coral reefs, lagoons, and biodiversity, ports are increasingly required to operate in alignment with global health, safety, and environmental standards. Renewable energy adoption, pollution control, waste management, and ecosystem protection have become central to port development.

The National Social Assistance Programme is a nationwide social security initiative introduced on 15 August 1995 to provide financial and food-based support to the most vulnerable sections of society living below the poverty line. Implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development, the programme covers both rural and urban areas and reflects the constitutional commitment to social justice by ensuring minimum income support and food security for citizens lacking stable livelihoods and social protection.

Core Vision

Over the last 11 years, India has pursued a culture-led development model that combines heritage conservation, spiritual revival, infrastructure expansion, inclusivity, and global cultural outreach, while integrating modern technology, tourism, and economic growth.

1. Overview of the Partnership

India and Russia share an enduring, time-tested relationship strengthened over 78 years. The 2000 “Strategic Partnership” and the 2010 elevation to a “Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership” institutionalised cooperation across political, defence, economic, nuclear, space, science, culture and multilateral domains. The Intergovernmental Commission (IRIGC) operates at two levels: IRIGC-TEC (economic, scientific, cultural) and IRIGC-M&MTC (military & technical).

Introduction

The Export Promotion Mission (EPM) is a unified national framework designed to strengthen India’s export ecosystem through coordinated financial and non-financial support. With an outlay of ₹25,060 crore for 2025–26 to 2030–31, the Mission integrates multiple schemes into a single digital system to improve competitiveness, market readiness and export capacity.

India’s rapid solar expansion has positioned the country as a global clean-energy leader. Solar capacity has grown from 3 GW (2014) to 129 GW (2025), helping push non-fossil power beyond 50% of India’s total installed electricity capacity. Large-scale deployment, strong policy architecture, and international cooperation continue to drive this transformation.

1. India’s Solar Growth Story