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1. India recorded real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 6.5 percent in 2024–25, maintaining its position as the fastest growing major economy despite global uncertainty, trade tensions, and weakening cross-border investment conditions.

2. The Reserve Bank expects India to sustain 6.5 percent real GDP growth in 2025–26, while other estimates project similar momentum, reflecting confidence in domestic demand and macroeconomic stability.

1. Budget 2026–27 proposes a tax holiday till 2047 for eligible foreign cloud service providers using India-based data centres for global operations, aiming to strengthen India’s digital infrastructure position.

2. The policy targets foreign companies providing global cloud services through Indian data centre infrastructure, while ensuring domestic transactions remain taxable through Indian reseller entities under specified conditions.

1. India secured preferential access to the United States market valued at about 30 trillion dollars, marking a major trade breakthrough across goods, technology cooperation, and multiple export-oriented sectors.

2. India’s exports to the United States stood at 86.35 billion dollars in 2024, and the agreement significantly improves competitive access across major manufacturing, agriculture, services, and technology sectors.

1. Real GDP and Gross Value Added are projected to grow by 7.4% and 7.3% respectively in FY26, while real GDP growth for FY27 is projected in the range of 6.8% to 7.2%.

2. Average headline inflation during April to December 2025 stood at 1.7%, the lowest since the beginning of the Consumer Price Index series.

1. India is revising the base year for Gross Domestic Product estimates from 2011-12 to 2022-23 to better reflect current economic structure, digitalisation, and newly emerging sectors.

2. The year 2022-23 was selected as the new GDP base because it is considered the most recent normal year after disruptions caused during 2019-20 and 2020-21.

1. One District One Product (ODOP) began in Uttar Pradesh in 2018, where Moradabad brassware was selected as a district signature product under a state-led economic initiative.

2. As of December 2025, ODOP had been adopted nationally and scaled to over 770 districts, extending its reach to millions of artisans, entrepreneurs, farmers, and producers.

1. As of December 2025, India had over 2 lakh DPIIT-recognised startups, placing it among the world’s largest startup ecosystems.

2. Around 50 percent of DPIIT-recognised startups come from Tier II and Tier III cities, showing broad regional spread of entrepreneurship.

1. World Wildlife Day is observed on 3 March, marking adoption of CITES, while the 2026 theme focuses on medicinal and aromatic plants, health heritage, and livelihoods.

2. India is among the world’s 17 mega biodiversity rich countries and holds nearly 7 percent of global biodiversity, giving special significance to medicinal plant conservation.

1. The Ministry of Women and Child Development anchors a life cycle approach through Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0, Mission Shakti,
and Mission Vatsalya for women and children.

2. Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 targets children aged 0 to 6 years, adolescent girls, pregnant women, and lactating mothers through
nutrition, care, checkups, and education.

1. India has built population scale digital public infrastructure for over 1.4 billion people through open, interoperable systems linking identity, payments and data exchange to governance, welfare delivery and inclusion.

2. The JAM trinity combined Jan Dhan accounts, Aadhaar enrolment and mobile connectivity, creating the foundational digital rails that enabled direct benefit transfers, reduced leakages and strengthened service delivery.