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Digital Governance
UMEED Portal for Waqf
The UMEED portal manages Waqf properties through digital registration, monitoring, and administration. This improves transparency, prevents encroachment and misuse, and ensures religious endowments serve their intended beneficiaries through modern governance mechanisms.
International Relations
India-Kyrgyzstan BIT Ratification
India exchanged BIT ratification instrument with Kyrgyzstan, formally activating investment protection treaty. This provides legal certainty for investors, establishes dispute resolution mechanisms, and strengthens India’s strategic engagement with Central Asia.
Technology
ICDRI 2025 Conference
The International Conference on Digital Rights and Innovation (ICDRI) 2025 was held in Nice, France. Global stakeholders discussed digital rights, privacy protection, technology governance, data sovereignty, and balancing innovation with fundamental rights.
Defence
VRDE – DRDO Laboratory
VRDE (Vehicle Research and Development Establishment) is a DRDO laboratory specializing in military vehicle design, including armored fighting vehicles, infantry combat vehicles, and main battle tanks, contributing to India’s defense self-reliance.
Agriculture
Beej Anusandhan Kendra
Beej Anusandhan Kendra (Seed Research Center) focuses on developing high-yielding, disease-resistant, and climate-resilient crop varieties. This enhances agricultural productivity, ensures food security, and strengthens India’s agricultural biotechnology capabilities.
Energy
IEA Energy Investment Report
The International Energy Agency (IEA) released World Energy Investment Report 2025, analyzing global energy sector investment trends in fossil fuels, renewables, grid infrastructure, and assessing progress toward energy transition goals.
Digital Infrastructure
DPI at BRICS Forum
India showcased its Digital Public Infrastructure at BRICS, demonstrating innovations like UPI, Aadhaar, and CoWIN. This promotes South-South cooperation in digital transformation and offers alternatives to Western-dominated technology platforms.
Business
Amul’s European Expansion
Amul partnered with COVAP (Spanish cooperative) to launch fresh milk in Europe. This strategic partnership showcases Indian dairy excellence in premium European markets and demonstrates India’s cooperative sector competing globally.
Sustainable Finance
Climate Risk Advisory Partnership
AU Small Finance Bank partnered with IFC for climate risk advisory. This helps assess climate-related financial risks, develop sustainable lending practices, and integrate environmental considerations into credit decisions.
Sports
French Open 2025
Carlos Alcaraz won the men’s singles title at French Open 2025, adding another Grand Slam to his collection. The young Spanish champion’s clay court victory demonstrates his versatility and cements his status as tennis’s next dominant force.
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UMEED portal manages what?
Waqf properties
Religious endowment administration
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India exchanged BIT ratification with?
Kyrgyzstan
Central Asian investment treaty
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Where was ICDRI 2025 held?
Nice, France
Digital rights conference
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VRDE is under which organization?
DRDO
Vehicle Research & Development
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Beej Anusandhan Kendra focuses on?
Seed research
Developing climate-resilient varieties
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Who released World Energy Investment Report?
IEA (International Energy Agency)
2025 edition
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India showcased DPI at which forum?
BRICS
UPI, Aadhaar, CoWIN showcase
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Who won French Open 2025 men’s singles?
Carlos Alcaraz
Spanish tennis champion
Think & Discuss
Digital Public Infrastructure: Global Good or Strategic Asset?
Context from today’s quiz: India showcased its Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)—including UPI, Aadhaar, and CoWIN—at the BRICS forum, promoting these systems as models for other developing nations. India has actively encouraged global adoption of its DPI frameworks, positioning them as open, scalable alternatives to Western-dominated technology platforms while demonstrating Indian innovation in digital governance.
🤔 Your Perspective Matters
As India promotes its Digital Public Infrastructure globally as an open, replicable model for developing nations, should this be viewed primarily as a developmental contribution advancing global digital inclusion, or as a strategic geopolitical tool that extends Indian technological influence, creates dependencies, and potentially enables surveillance capabilities while framing this expansion in altruistic language of South-South cooperation?
When India exports DPI frameworks to other nations, especially through BRICS and developing countries, is it genuinely democratizing digital technology by offering non-Western alternatives, or creating new forms of technological colonialism where recipient nations become dependent on Indian platforms, standards, and potentially data access that could be leveraged for geopolitical advantage?
When India exports DPI frameworks to other nations, especially through BRICS and developing countries, is it genuinely democratizing digital technology by offering non-Western alternatives, or creating new forms of technological colonialism where recipient nations become dependent on Indian platforms, standards, and potentially data access that could be leveraged for geopolitical advantage?
- Should nations adopting India’s DPI frameworks have concerns about data sovereignty, given that Indian technology providers and potentially Indian government agencies might gain access to sensitive citizen data and transaction information from adopting countries?
- How can recipient nations ensure that adopting India’s DPI doesn’t simply replace Western technological dependence with Indian dependence, and that they maintain genuine control over critical digital infrastructure and the ability to modify systems for their specific contexts?
- Is there a fundamental tension between promoting “open” DPI that countries can adapt freely and maintaining Indian strategic advantages, technological leadership, and potential influence that comes from being the originator and primary knowledge holder of these systems?
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