Context: Overdependence on standardised examinations: Exams such as NEET, JEE and UGC-NET use uniform, multiple-choice formats across diverse disciplines, often failing to adequately assess critical thinking, reasoning and subject-specific aptitude.C...

Context: World Food Day 2026 highlights the need to prevent childhood diabetes through healthy diets, physical activity and school-based interventions, rather than treating diabetes only as an adult disease. Diabetes: Emerging Childhood Health C...

Context: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) demonstrate how talent, resources, governance and institutional culture can help build and sustain academic excellence. Indian universities can adapt these lessons to improve their global competitiv...

Context: Advances in medical technology have improved diagnosis and treatment, but overtreatment and overmedication are rising concerns. India faces a dual burden: unnecessary medical interventions for some and inadequate access to essential healthca...

Context: At the 48th WorldSkills Competition, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2026, India secured 10th position, winning six silver medals and 20 Medallions for Excellence (26 recognitions in total), its best-ever performance and first entry in...

Context: Bihar is India’s youngest State, with a median age of about 26 years, giving it significant demographic potential.However, demographic advantage can translate into employment and economic growth only when young people have accessible, afford...

Context: India has achieved a major decline in leprosy prevalence, childhood cases and Grade-2 disability (G2D) over the past decade, but active transmission continues in several pockets, threatening the targets of the National Strategic Plan (NSP) a...

Context: Recent revisions of NCERT history textbooks have generated debate not only over factual accuracy and interpretation but also over what historical themes and experiences are left out.The larger concern is whether school history adequately pre...

Context: India’s performance at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games has renewed debate over whether the country’s sporting ecosystem is strong enough to support its aspiration to host the 2036 Olympics.India won 85 medals from around 500 athletes, compared...

Context: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in India, accounting for 10.9% of all cancer deaths in 2024 (98,687 deaths), up from 75,031 deaths in 2022.Despite its rising burden, India does not have a nationwide lung-cancer screening pr...

Context: Tamil Nadu has announced a multi-pronged Statewide campaign to reduce excessive salt consumption, linking dietary practices with the prevention of non-communicable diseases.The initiative seeks not merely to change individual dietary habits...

ContextAYUSH medical education is expanding rapidly, with the private sector accounting for 86% of Ayurveda colleges and 85% of homoeopathy colleges in 2024.Between 2021 and 2024, permitted seats increased by 43%, while total admission capacity rose...

Context: The 176th Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare, tabled on 7 August 2026, highlighted the high cost of private healthcare in India and recommended measures to improve affordability and transparency.Avera...