1) India has achieved a major milestone by being declared TB-free by the WHO, 20 years ahead of the 2050 target. This was enabled by large-scale implementation of the Revised National TB Control Program and increased public awareness. 2) Mumbai has become the first Indian city to go completely cashless following government initiatives like Digital India and financial inclusion programs. 3) India's economy continues to grow strongly with the GDP crossing $4.5 trillion to become the third largest globally. Exports have exceeded imports for two consecutive years.

1. POLITICAL
ECONOMIC
SOCIAL
TECHNOLOGICAL
ENVIRONMENTAL
Disruption in healthcare
Yet another medical
advancement Google’s
Verily has introduced
after 2 year testing is
Advancements in
ribonucleic acid-guided
(RNA-guided)
engineering used for
specialist sequence
synthesis will be so
much more
sophisticated that a
human genome
engineering platform
will exist. The pillar
biological molecules of
life on earth: RNA, DNA
and proteins, and the
roles they play, will be
understood much more
clearly in the next
decade.
SECURITY
The in-depth operations of RNA, the main
pathways from DNA to proteins, and proteins,
the cell’s worker bees that carry out various
catalytic and structural functions, will be
demystified. The RNA/DNA process of passing
inherited genetic information from one
generation to the next will be clear. Increased
knowledge of these biological pillars will make
genomic-editing-and-repairing DNA a reality in
humans, not just in bacteria and mice.
The human genome engineering platform has
now paved the way for the modification of
disease-causing genes in humans, leading to the
prevention of type I diabetes, among other
ailments.
Google introduces its team of
chemists, engineers, doctors,
behavioral scientists and
humanoids, all working
together for healthcare
advancements – Verily. To
begin with, some of the
breakthrough innovations they
have introduced the world to
are Contact lenses that perform
health check-ups – One will
now be able to check their
blood sugar with the blink of an
eye. The contacts of the future
will contain sensors that
measure biomarkers on the
surface of their eyes, giving
away patients an easy way to
monitor their health. The
lenses are made up of
extremely complex
Microsystems that are
integrated to perform a
complete dialysis.
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2. The Indian economy seems to be the
only shining light in Asia as its GDP in
nominal terms crosses $4.5 Trillion to
become the 3rd largest economy in the
world overtaking Japan. Also, the
Sensex last week crossed 80,000
points indicating the strong growth
trajectory of India. India has grown at
an average rate of 8% for the past 10
years due to the reforms initiated by
the Modi government since 2014.
State Bank of India becomes the
first Indian company to enter top
50 in the Forbes 500 list 2026.
SBI has been continuously
improving its ranking each year
and is placed at number 44 from
56 the year before. SBI’s turnover
for FY 2025-26 was Rs. 15,28,033
crores. In the last 10 years 10
banks have been merged with
SBI. This includes the five State
Bank Associates, Bhartiya Mahila
Bank, United Bank of India, UCO
Bank, Oriental Bank of
Commerce and Indian Bank. This
has led to a creation of a
behemoth in the Indian banking
industry.
India Declared TB Free by
India Declared TB Free by
WHO
India officially declared TB free by
WHO (World Health Organization)
on 27th February, 2026.
Tuberculosis (TB).This
achievement is a massive success
and a mile stone towards rising
India as India’s goal was to become
tuberculosis-free by 2050. By
implementing a revised national
TB control programme to eradicate
the disease in compliance with the
World Health Organization
strategy India has managed to
achieve this vision 20 years ahead
of the planned target. The large
scale implementation of the Indian
government’s Revised National TB
Control Program (RNTCP) was
started in 1997, after which a
breakthrough occurred in August,
2022 with the full scale adoption of
The Genexpert test (a revolutionary
molecular test for TB which
diagnoses TB by detecting the
presence of TB bacteria, as well as
testing for resistance to the drug
Rifampicin). With a budget of 450
million, the key contributors to this
target achievement has been
RNTCP’s efforts to strengthen the
public-private along with aligning
with National Rural Health
Mission supervisory structures.
The awareness program namely,
“TB hatao, Jaan Bachao” campaign
has been a major reason behind
this success.
India Shining Last Week’s Poll Question
Should India bid for hosting the 2034 FIFA World Cup?
Yes – 38%
No – 56%
Can’t say – 6%
A group of 20 Indian’s specially trained by Baba
Ramdev would be taking up a new subject called
Ayurvedic Science in Harvard University starting
with 3 lectures per week. The subject would be an
optional initially. This is a significant step towards
building a harmonious society taken up by PAL,
after having established its presence in 5 new
nations, namely- US, UK, China, Japan and
Germany starting from the year 2020.
Mumbai becomes
the first city in
India to go
completely
cashless
India improves
ranking on HDI
and Ease of Doing
Business
India’s rank on the Human Development Index
has improved from 92 in 2025 to 86 in 2026. A
growing Literacy, Life expectancy and GNI per
capita have led to improving the livelihood of a
person in India.
Also, on the Ease of Doing Business Index,
India’s rank has improved to 72 from 77 a year
earlier. Reforms such as GST, Bankruptcy law,
Real Estate Laws and Electrification of villages
and cities have helped India move up
significantly in the rankings in the past few
years
Mumbai becomes the first city in India to go
completely cashless following the efforts by the
government in the form of Digital India, Jan
Dhan Yojana and Financial Inclusion. Payment
of everything, right from a rickshaw ride to
buying vegetables can now be made via card or
wallet. This is a big achievement for the BJP
government, the seeds of which were sown in
2015 by then Prime Minister Mr. Narendra
Modi. The next milestone for the government is
to make Delhi, Bengaluru and Kolkata
completely cashless.
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The perks of adopting GST can now be
felt as all processes have been
streamlined and this has led to
improved efficiency and low tax
evasion. GST has helped India to grow
at an additional rate of at least 1.5% in
the last few years.
According to a report by Goldman
Sachs, the outlook for the next 10 years
looks promising. With literacy rate of
over 90% and internet penetration of
more than 75%, India is on course to
topple US to become the second largest
economy in the world by 2050, trailing
only China.
Also, India continued to be in a trade
surplus for the 2nd consecutive year with
exports ($657.2 Billion) exceeding
imports ($622.5 Billion). The Make in
India campaign has been highly
successful in making India an export
hub for many industries including
automobile and ancillary, Steel
products, Textiles, Chemicals, Defense
equipment and Solar panels
SBI breaks into top 50 of
the Forbes 500 list 2026
Patanjali Ayurved Limited, the brainchild of
Acharya Balkrishna and Baba Ramdev, established
with the objective of inculcating the science
of Ayurveda with the latest technology and ancient
wisdom in its attempt to make a disease free world
yet makes another breakthrough in the world of
Yogic science by tying up with London School of
Business hence taking Ayurvedic education
abroad. The 500 billion company is a first mover to
have entered the Ivey League education sector with
India’s age old distinguishing art of Yoga.
Patanjali to open Ayurvedic center at London School of Business

3. This Monday, marked the 2nd anniversary of launch of the first
3 smart cities of India. The Smart City Projects, started as a
marquee project when Narendra Modi came to power in 2014,
have thus received attention. Over the period of 12 years, since
when the Smart City Project was first Initiated, India’s
relationship with Japan and Germany has grown leaps and
bounds. Japan, which had promised help in technology and
many other sectors, has become one of India’s preferred
partners in tackling development as an issue and their help
has come of great use.
U.S.A too, during the 2 terms of Hillary Clinton helped India in
the development of 5 Smart Cities, majority of them in the north
and East. With the launch of Electric Vehicles in the Smart Cities,
and model use of Driverless cars, these cities have taken them
beyond the imagination of what was expected out of them 10
years back. The growing population of these cities, with greater
acceptance is proof enough that Narendra Modi’s dream of Smart
Cities will finally be realized, no matter if he’s still the Prime
Minister of the Country or not. Credit also goes to the committee
which was responsible behind the Smart City project, as they
were quick to accept new technologies and for experiments which
took place in these cities before the full launch of the cities to be
inhabited.
“Electric Vehicles in the Smart Cities
and model use of Driverless cars, these
cities have taken them beyond the
imagination”
At the same conference, he had also
projected that 100% of New Development
Testing will be in the Cloud, which was
actually achieved in 2022. This signifies
the complete transformation of Data
Storage and Analytics industry as they
have come a long way from hard disks to
portable disks to achieving complete cloud
coverage. From having multiple major
players like Microsoft, IBM whose Cloud
Computing Business has since been
acquired by Amazon and Google
respectively, the industry has clearly come
.a long way.
In Cloud, the major development in last 5
years has been in the form of Artificial
intelligence, a place which was supposed to
be taken by Internet of Things, or as was
predicted by multiple CXOs over the last
decade. AI capabilities now act as a
foundational element of infrastructures in
the development of new cloud computing
services, which is a part of PaaS(Platform
as a service).
.
Oracle: Take it to the Cloud
The future is now
Oracle, today announced that the
prediction one of its ex-CEO, Mark Hurd,
had made back in 2015 had infact come
true, as more than 95% of the enterprise
Data is now known to be on cloud, and
Enterprise clouds have become, as per
recent reports, the ,most secure IT
Environments
Smart Cities, Driverless Cars: New Age Cities
The HRD ministry of India has signed an MoU with Harvard University to open a 3000 acre campus in
NCR area by 2030. It will be a state-of-the-art campus that will provide management education along
with Law and Healthcare courses.
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4. One of the PRC’s latest targets is
the frozen continent of
Antarctica, where an
international accord reached in
1959 prohibits mining and
military activity. “But [Chinese
Premier’s visit to a south
Australian port last autumn] was
another sign that China is
positioning itself to take
advantage of the continent’s
resource potential when the
treaty expires in 2048,” “or as it
becomes more probable that it
will be ripped up before, Chinese
and Australian experts say.”
Sberbank lost tens of Millions of
ruble after the orchestration of
the biggest ever cybercrime
executed by a local gang of
hackers. The hackers managed
to infiltrate the bank’s internal
computer systems using
malware, which lurked in the
networks for months, gathering
information and feeding it back
to the gang.
The illegal software was so
sophisticated that it allowed the
criminals to view video feeds
from within supposedly secure
offices as they gathered the data
they needed to steal.
Once they were ready to strike,
they were able to impersonate
bank staff online in order to
transfer millions of pounds into
dummy accounts.
They were even able to instruct
cash machines to dispense
money at random times of the
day even without a bank card.
The scam was busted by the
Russian cyber security firm,
Kaspersky Lab, which was called
in to investigate after a cash
machine in Moscow was found
to have been spitting out money
at random times.
Cyber Scandal
in Russia
The physical devise that entertained the world since 1927 is now officially out
of homes. High-definition videos now are screened on glasses, car dashboards,
clothing, walls, and mobile devices anywhere and anytime with the help of
beams. Simply ask your cable operator to provide you with a pen like beam
that enables the screening.
42 days ahead of Easter, the biggest street party of the world – Rio Carnival
that attracted 1996000 tourists from across the world until day three of the 5
day festival generating US$1360 million was called off early by 9 suicide
bombers in the parade, killing over 1800 and injuring 2900. Usually a big
boost for the Brazilian economy and a source of pride for the Brazilians, this
incident comes as a huge blow to the people of Brazil.
China positions itself to
exploit Antarctica Oil
Terror strikes again
Demise of the Box
“If the accord does expire, Antarctica
could become the next major source
of hydrocarbons on earth”The stakes are high for China and
every other nation interested in
exploiting the resources beneath
Antarctica. “If the accord does
expire, Antarctica could become
the next major source of
hydrocarbons on earth. The region
is believed to have an approximate
200 billion barrels of oil, in
addition to being the largest single
repository of fresh water on the
planet,”
That’s right. 200. Billion Barrels of
oil and over 90 percent of the
world’s freshwater ice mass.
The very existence of the southern
continent undermines virtually
every apocalyptic climate change
argument ever made.
India achieves 30% reduction in
carbon emissions
The transition to replace coal with
solar and wind power for electricity
generation that was started in 2015
has come to beat fruits as India
achieves the 30% reduction in
emissions. The investment made in
manufacturing of solar panels and
wind turbines has enabled regulating
coal usage. The turnaround was
however brought by government’s
regulation which mandated
generation and storage (rooftop solar
panels with home- or business-scale
battery packs) of green energy in all
newly constructed building both by
builders and independent owner
India’s can now move towards
replacing natural gas; although the
transition will be harder, because
gas-fired “peaking” plants are often
used to buffer the intermittency of
industrial-scale wind and solar
inputs to the grid.
India’s is now looking to transform
habits of consumers as it looks
forward to phase out all our gas
cooking stoves for electric stoves.
An action plan is also under
working which will provide
financial support to retrofitting
existing buildings for energy
efficiency). Any new construction
now requires net-zero-energy or
near-net-zero-energy performance.
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