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SHINE Initiative: Empowering Women at the Heart of India’s Quality Movement

08-Jan-2026

At the 79th Foundation Day of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the Union Minister for Consumer Affairs launched the SHINE Scheme (Standards Help Inform & Nurture Empowered Women) in New Delhi. The initiative marks a strategic shift towards placing women at the centre of India’s quality and standardisation ecosystem.

Bio-Based Materials: India’s Next Green Manufacturing Leap

08-Jan-2026

Biomaterials are drawing renewed policy and industry attention as India and other countries search for low-carbon alternatives to fossil-based materials amid climate commitments, plastic bans, and tightening global sustainability standards.

Melghat Emerges as a Vulture Conservation Hub

08-Jan-2026

The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has successfully released 15 critically endangered Indian vultures into the Melghat Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra. This marks a significant step in India’s efforts to restore vulture populations, which suffered catastrophic declines due to veterinary drug toxicity and habitat stress.

Madras HC on Thiruparankundram: Balancing Faith, Heritage and Public Order

08-Jan-2026

The Madras High Court allowed the lighting of the Karthigai Deepam lamp at Thiruparankundram hill near Madurai, while rejecting the Tamil Nadu government’s apprehensions of communal unrest as speculative.

Is Court letting down its mandate on liberty?

07-Jan-2026

This editorial “Is Court letting down its mandate on liberty?”, published in The Indian Express on 6th Jan 2026, critically examines the SC’s approach to bail and prolonged pre-trial incarceration, raising concerns about judicial delay, erosion of the presumption of innocence, and the weakening of constitutional safeguards for personal liberty.

The struggle to count women’s labour

07-Jan-2026

This editorial “The struggle to count women’s labour”, published in The Hindu on 6th Jan 2026, examines the persistent invisibility of women’s unpaid, emotional, and care work, highlighting how economic frameworks, policy priorities, and legal systems continue to undervalue labour that is essential for households, society, and the broader economy.

Off the guard rails: On the Grok case, explicit imagery

07-Jan-2026

This editorial “Off the guard rails: On the Grok case, explicit imagery”, published in The Hindu on 6th Jan 2026, examines the dangers of unregulated generative AI, highlighting how weak safeguards enable the creation of non-consensual explicit content, raising serious concerns over ethics, accountability, and governance of AI platforms.

National Environmental Standards Laboratory

07-Jan-2026

Recently, the world's second National Environmental Standards Laboratory (NESL) and the world's fifth National Primary Standards Facility for solar cell calibration was inaugurated at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL).

Battery Pack Aadhaar Number (BPAN)

07-Jan-2026

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has proposed a significant initiative to make India's rapidly growing electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem more transparent, sustainable, and regulatory-friendly.

Somnath and the Idea of India: A Millennium of Faith, Resilience and Civilisational Continuity

07-Jan-2026

The Prime Minister has highlighted the thousand-year survival of the Somnath Temple as a symbol of India’s indomitable civilisational spirit, as the country commemorates Somnath Swabhiman Parv (1026–2026) — marking one millennium since the first documented destruction of the shrine and its repeated resurgence thereafter.

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