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Two large defence deals between India and France are being finalised, amid expectations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Paris in February for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit to be hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. The deals, together estimated at over $10 billion, will include the purchase of 26 Rafale-M fighter jets for the Indian Navy's aircraft carriers, and three additional Scorpene-class conventional submarines.
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The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules seek to protect citizens' rights in accordance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, while achieving the "right balance between regulation and innovation", said a note issued by the Union government. Adequate time will be given to all stakeholders, from small enterprises to large corporates, for the smooth transition to achieve compliance, the note added. As provided, the Data Protection Board itself will function as a digital office and will be "born digital", with a digital platform and app to enable citizens to approach it digitally and have their complaints adjudicated without their physical presence.
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The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, is a long overdue advance in the direction of enforcing the fundamental right to informational privacy for Indians, affirmed by the Supreme Court of India in the landmark case, Justice K.S. Puttaswamy vs. Union of India (2017). The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, which these draft rules seek to enforce, was passed in Parliament over a year ago. The proposed rules offer direction on how online services will be required to: communicate the purposes of their data collection to users; safeguard children's data online; establish the Data Protection Board of India (DPBI); set the standards for government agencies to follow to be exempt from the Act's provisions, and spell out the procedures to be observed if personal data is breached by a data fiduciary.
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India is at a pivotal moment in its history. It is among the leading nations in the world when it comes to economic growth and political stability. India today projects an atmosphere of peace, which is seemingly out of place in a world that is undergoing a profound shift in its economic and geo-political landscape. India is today privy to the rise of new economic and political groupings. Much is being made of the recent border negotiations and an apparent disengagement at the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh. This was followed by the first formal meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping meeting in five years, as well as the resumption of the Special Representatives’ talks on border issues. Wiser heads would know that disengagement does not mean ‘dispute resolution’. The border conflict still remains alive and unchanged.
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India is facing a healthcare crisis that is growing both in scope and cost. Country sees an alarming rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer, the financial burden on individuals and the healthcare system continues to escalate. NCDs accounted for about 65% of all deaths in 2022, up from about 50% in 2010-13, as per the National Family Health Survey-5. The National Health Accounts show the total current health expenditure estimate in 2021-22 as ₹7.9 lakh crore, growing at a rate more than overall inflation. The share of household health expenditure, including insurance contributions, while decreasing over time, still drives nearly 50%+ of the spend. This remains one of the highest globally.
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The number of students enrolled in Indian schools in 2023-24 declined by 1.22 crore compared with 2018-19, show data. Officials argue that Aadhaar numbers and unique student IDs have been used to identify beneficiaries of educational schemes and, in the process, duplicate entries and ghost entries have been weeded out. However, Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE) data show that this new method of data collection has had a disproportionate impact on Madrasas - both recognised and unrecognised - and other unrecognised schools. There was a sharp drop in school enrolments among recognised Madrasa schools even as the number of recognised Madrasas and the number of teachers working in them increased.
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The ambitious plan to build a mega-hydropower dam across the Brahmaputra at the Great Bend region of the Medog county in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) in China, has been in the drawing boards of Chinese hydrocracy for decades. The clearest signalling to this effect happened in 2020 when this project was included in China's 14th Five-Year Plan. India, Bhutan and Bangladesh will have serious downstream implications of this 60 GW hyper-dam built upstream by China. The Brahmaputra is a transboundary Himalayan River basin spanning four riparian countries. China is the uppermost riparian nation with the river system originating in the TAR, where it is known as the Yarlung Zangbo (or Tsangpo). India and Bhutan are lower riparian nations in relation to China and middle riparian countries in relation to Bangladesh. It is from Bangladesh, which is the lowermost riparian nation, that the river drains into the Bay of Bengal. All riparian countries have major water infrastructure projects planned in the river basin, such as hydropower dams, embankments meant for river control, irrigation dams and barrages.
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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India will start this month a pilot to on- board paper-based and past permissions given by customers for receiving commercial communications onto its digital distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform. This process, in the long run, would include scrubbing and verifying their current validity and offering opt-outs to those keen on it. TRAI has also ruled out any rethink on its latest regulation that mandates service providers to offer separate special tariff vouchers (STV) for voice calls and SMS.
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The Union government is set to launch another round of production-linked incentive scheme for the steel sector, the Union Ministry of Steel said. The Centre had earlier introduced the PLI scheme to encourage domestic production of specialty steel and lower imports by drawing in capital investments. Initially launched for three sectors to address the need to boost domestic manufacturing, the PLI scheme was later extended to include steel in November 2020.
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Lok Sabha Speaker will inaugurate “Panchayat Se Parliament 2.0” which seeks to give insight into the Constitution and parliamentary procedures to over 500 women representatives from Panchayati Raj institutions from across the country. Organised to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of tribal icon Birsa Munda, the programme will have workshops and sessions, a guided tour of the new Parliament House, Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya, and Rashtrapati Bhavan for the participants, offering them a deeper understanding of India’s legislative process and the functioning of democratic institutions.
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Bangladesh cancelled the visit by a delegation of its judicial officials to India. In a circular, the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs said the visit of the officials who were scheduled to attend a training programme in Bhopal has been cancelled. The letter of approval had mentioned that the training module was being financed by the Government of India and that the Government of Bangladesh was not expected to finance the training module. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had visited India between April 7 and 10 in 2017, when the two sides had signed twenty-two agreements. The MoU between the National Judicial Academy, India, and the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Training and Capacity Building Programme for Bangladeshi Judicial Officers in India was one of these MoUs.
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