SECTOR REPORTS Sector Specific Report – (Tourism) – June 2024 India has taken a stride to attain the 39th position in the World Economic Forum’s Travel & Tourism Development Index (TTDI), 2024a.  It was an encouraging sign for India’s tourism and hospitality sector as international tourism restored to normal across the globe post-pandemic. In the […]

SECTOR REPORTS Sector Specific Report – (Environment) – May 2024 Recently, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) shared vital and valuable information about the Glacial Lakes and their continuous expansion in the Indian Himalayas. Here, the substantial presence of glaciers and snow is greatly sensitive to climate change in terms of physical and societal impacts

SECTOR REPORTS Sector Specific Report – (Education) – April 2024 In a landmark move to elevate Indian education, a public statement ‘National Professional Standard for Teachers’ (NPST) was recently launched by the Ministry of Education aiming to reform the teachers’ way of working to positively impact students’ learning outcomes in the country. The NPST syncs

SECTOR REPORTS Sector Specific Report – (Healthcare) – March 2024 The first phase of the Nationwide Mass Drug Administration (MDA) campaign for the eradication of Lymphatic Filariasis was announced by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on 10 February 2024. This disease is caused by Culex mosquitoes and is vector-borne. The campaign occurs twice

SECTOR REPORTS Sector Specific Report – (Finance) – February 2024 The Union Finance Minister (FM), Government of India presented the Interim Union Budget 2024 on 1st February 2024. The budget prioritizes viable development, generating employment, enhancing work capital productivity, and reforming financial policies boosting overall growth with the mantra of ‘Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas, and

SECTOR REPORTS Sector Specific Report (Sustainability & Climate Change) – January 2024 COP28 has given the global fight against climate change a transformative shift through the ‘UAE Consensus’ under the presidency of the United Arab Emirates in Dubai which was started 30 years ago by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in

SECTOR REPORTS Sector Specific Report (Oil, Gas & Petroleum) – December 2023 The Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MOP&NG), Government of India announced the launch of Reference Fuels (Gasoline and Diesel Fuels) in India for the first time by the Indian Oil’s Paradip & Panipat Refineries on 26 October 2023. It has witnessed innovative

SECTOR REPORTS Sector Specific Report (Renewable Energy) – November 2023 The Ministry of Coal (MOC) along with the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) announced to work for the advancement of green energy on 27 October 2023 in New Delhi. Under this alliance, the MNRE decided to support policy-making, technical assistance, and capacity-building and

SECTOR REPORTS Sector Specific Report (Sports) – October 2023 The Asian Games 2022 concluded in Hangzhou, China between 23rd  September 2023 to 08th  October 2023. For the first time, India created history since the inception of the Asian Games in 1951 by winning a total of 107 medals, the country’s highest ever so far, and

SECTOR REPORTS Sector Specific Report (Space Science) – September 2023 India’s most awaited Chandrayaan-3 mission by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) successfully made a soft landing on the surface of the south pole of the moon on 23 August 2023 and made the history in global space landscape. It has two of its predecessors Chandrayaan