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India's Digital Public Infrastructure has been recognized as one of the top ten effective reforms globally. This infrastructure, particularly Aadhaar and the Unified Payments Interface, supports financial inclusion and reduces transaction costs. It facilitates greater integration of micro, small, and medium enterprises into the formal economy. Institutional coordination and interoperability have played crucial roles in its success and development.

Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford provided the theoretical and empirical underpinnings to a basic but powerful idea for policymakers: the economy is made out of the people in it.

According to the paper, the share of Indian employment exposed to artificial intelligence has risen modestly since 2012, and the quality of that exposure has improve

Mines Secretary Keshav Chandra indicated that a policy on stockpiling critical minerals will be announced soon. This initiative is designed to support strategic sectors like defence, advanced electronics, and aerospace. The government plans to establish four dedicated critical minerals processing parks across various states to enhance value addition. A comprehensive list of over 30 critical minerals has been released for essential industry needs.

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has won Francis Halzen the Nobel Prize for physics by opening a window into parts of the universe that were until recently beyond our reach

The feat has been described as India’s first free-space quantum-key distribution (QKD) link at a distance of 5.56 km

AI systems more reliable in everyday settings is a challenge worth solving, not just to improve gadgets and apps, but because AI has the potential to support human well-being, whether that means safer streets, smarter healthcare or more secure homes

A laser’s electric field oscillates rapidly: positive, zero, negative, zero, positive, and so on. An atomic or nuclear clock counts these cycles like an old clock counts the swings of a pendulum

The Supreme Court order on September 30 relaxes the framework for a redesigned version of the “Gen-2” joined green cracker, subject to NEERI’s conditions

Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a series of key decisions, including the Rabi Price Policy for the 2027-28 marketing season, with an estimated payout of Rs 90,962 crore to farmers. MSPs for six Rabi crops, including wheat, barley, gram, lentil, rapeseed-mustard and safflower, were revised. The Cabinet also approved Rs 1,86,405 crore for PM DHARA and Rs 1,790 crore for an Intelligent Traffic Management System in Delhi.

India’s nuclear doctrine faces new strategic, technological and geopolitical challenges

Why does Gaganyaan need multiple parachutes? How are they tested?

Nearly 130 heads of state meet with the post-World War ​Two order under strain and with the UN itself struggling to remain relevant

India has an opportunity to become a global leader not only in deep-sea technology but also in deep-sea ecological governance

Speaking at the inauguration of the SEMICON India 2026, Narendra Modi said that the semiconductor ecosystem is expanding rapidly, opening new opportunities for innovation, investment and growth

The EOS-05 is India’s first ever imaging satellite to monitor from Geosynchronous orbit about 36,000 km above the Earth.

In the first episode of The Scope’s special series on Gaganyaan, we explore why India’s first human spaceflight mission is about much more than sending astronauts into orbit. Discover what Gaganyaan is, why human-rating a rocket is essential, how ISRO has prepared through years of testing, and why this mission could make India only the fourth nation capable of launching humans into space on its own.

The government said that the need for a common time reference has increased with the growing use of digital and technology-based systems

PM Modi held delegation-level talks with President Mirziyoyev on expanding cooperation in key areas of trade, investment, critical minerals, defence and security, digital public infrastructure including UPI, among others

The deal marks a significant step in defence cooperation between the two countries; the Javelin system is currently operated by the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps and several international customers