A significant redesign of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime has been passed by the GST Council to take effect on September 22, 2025. The new regime will reduce slabs by 5-percent and 18%, and 40% on luxury and sin goods. The reform is expected to increase consumer purchasing, compliance, and economic growth.

CEREBO is a brand new hand-held gadget that is used to identify traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) in a safe way and fast. Developed by research institutes in India, it provides a low-cost, non-invasive, and portable alternative to CT and MRI scanning, and seeks to enhance early diagnosis and treatment, especially in resource-restricted and emergency triage.

APEDA introduced BHARATI in 2025 to help 100 agri-food and agri-tech startups through support in innovation and the growth of export capabilities in India. The project is in line with the national goal of having agri-food exports of 50 billion in 2030.

The Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) report by the University of Chicago Energy Policy Institute claims that air pollution has become the biggest health risk in India in 2025. Air pollution is killing the average Indian a full 3.5 years shorter than malnutrition, tobacco, or unsafe water does. Worryingly, the whole 1.4 billion population resides in areas that surpass the safe limit of PM2.5 by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Boston Brahmins is a term used in reference to the traditional old upper-class gentry of the 19th century in Boston. The term was used in 1861 by Oliver Wenddell Holmes to describe the families who were largely the descendants of English colonisers who gained control over the land by establishing a hegemony through education, commerce and strategically planned marriages.