The first port-based green hydrogen pilot at V.O. Chidambaranar (VOC) Port, Tamil Nadu, has been the big milestone in India in its clean energy endeavor. This is an innovative project that aims at reducing carbon emissions, facilitating environmentally conscious port management, and in line with the national missions of Viksit Bharat 2047 and Sagarmala programme.

In New Delhi, the 5 th Meeting of the Central Advisory Council (CAC) under the Real Estate ( Regulation and Development ) Act, 2016 (RERA) in eight years of the RERA implementation took place. The conference reflected on the best developments made in the sector and presented some of the main reforms such as the introduction of Unified RERA Portal, which is aimed at increasing the level of transparency and simplifying the process of operations in the States and Union Territories.

The demographic profile in India is going through a noticeable change where fertility is on the decline, birth, and death rates are on the decline and the number of elderly people is on the rise. The recently published Sample Registration Survey (SRS) Statistical Report 2023, published by the Office of the Registrar General of India, shows the way these changes are redefining the population structure of the nation and its future growth trends.

Adani Group and Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) of Bhutan concluded a historic agreement in 2025 of the joint development of the 570 MW Wangchhu Hydroelectric Project. The estimated project worth is 6,000 crore and will be executed under Build, Own, Operate, Transfer (BOOT) model where construction should start early 2026 and is expected to be completed in five years. This project is a new phase in the centuries old energy relationship between India and Bhutan.

According to recent reports by the S. N. Bose National Centre of Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS), however, the protein p47 has a startling new role--that of a mechanical chaperone which shields other proteins against physical stress within cells. So far, p47 was only regarded as an auxiliary to the cellular machine p97, and the results indicate that it has a separate role in protein stability in presence of force. The finding may be the basis of new therapeutic approaches to diseases associated with protein misfolding and instability.