Future-proofing #India's #OrganTransplant ecosystem requires more than new technology. Strong regulation, research industry partnerships, and strategic #PublicInvestment are essential to turn innovation into affordable, accessible patient care: Pulkit Athavle & @lakshmyrkrish or-f.org/39843

Pacific nations train talent, watch it leave, then train more—because there's no local demand for the skills. ~500,000 Pacific Islanders migrated in 3 decades. The fix isn't more training but creating the demand that keeps people here. Read more about it in the latest @orfonline paper by Alok Gupta👇 or-f.org/39857

Worried about how secure your #video #surveillance (#CCTV) system is? The @ORFonline Special Report by @RLuthra includes an Actionable Checklist to harden your surveillance systems today, not after the breach. For Enterprise, Government and Defence users.or-f.org/39908

Only through sustained, coordinated, and forward-looking #governance can the considerable promise of #AI in electoral contexts be responsibly realised, ensuring that the pursuit of efficiency does not come at the cost of democratic integrity: @j_pranoy or-f.org/39971

South-South and triangular cooperation are gaining importance as traditional donor-recipient models evolve. Their potential lies in combining #finance, expertise and capacity-building while giving developing countries greater agency: @swatiprabhujnu & @PratnashreeBasu or-f.org/40246

As #AI increasingly influences #healthcare, #finance, public administration, #defence, and critical infrastructure, responsibility must keep pace with capability. The new @orfonline report by M.U.Nair proposes an architecture for operational AI accountability. or-f.org/40524

Every transformative technology makes something scarce abundant. Electricity made power abundant. #AI is making intelligence abundant. The harder question is what happens next: can our institutions, systems and economies actually absorb it? A new ORF Special Report by @matthan explores the answer. Read more: or-f.org/40550 #AbsorptionFrontier

The authors @AmbarKumarGhos1 & @swatiprabhujnu analyse how Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana–National Rural Livelihood Mission (#DAYNRLM) seeks to advance women’s economic empowerment by building community institutions that facilitate access to finance, technical assistance, and market linkages. or-f.org/40630 #WomenEmpowerment #FinancialInclusion

Data fuels innovation in #DigitalMarkets, but its concentration can also reinforce dominance. As #AI increases the value of access to data, the paper explores why privacy must become central to competition analysis: Tanusha Tyagi or-f.org/40781 #CompetitionLaw #DataPrivacy

#Dubai’s economic engagement with #Africa is increasingly built around more than #trade. With $146 billion in Dubai-Africa non-oil trade in 2025 and over 30,000 African companies registered with the Dubai Chamber, the emirate is becoming a key business gateway: @SamirApolitical or-f.org/39948 #EconomicGrowth #Development

#YoungVoices | #EchoStar exited the carrier business. #Mavenir exited radio hardware entirely. As two of Open Radio Access Network’s (#OpenRAN) most pure-play advocates step back, is the real disruption story shifting to #AI-RAN instead?: Tara Kharat or-f.org/39965

#India’s light-touch #AI governance relies heavily on benchmarks and observable outputs, but #Anthropic’s “J-space” research points to a gap: models may process consequential judgments internally. Future rules need stronger interpretability: @IshitaDeshmukh8 or-f.org/39964 #AIgovernance

With #Houthi attacks threatening commercial shipping and #SaudiArabia’s Red Sea energy export corridor, the Multinational Maritime Defense Coalition (MMDC) seeks to strengthen naval patrols, surveillance, intelligence sharing and joint operational planning across a vital #maritime theatre: @ProfHarshVPant or-f.org/39961

For #Europe, #India’s demographic rise is becoming a strategic opportunity as ageing populations and labour shortages reshape supply chains, technology partnerships, and economic resilience. #Finland’s #IndoPacific Policy Guidelines, adopted in 2026, reflects this shift: @Jari1362 & Ari Heikkinen or-f.org/39984

#India must treat titanium as a strategic defence input: expand domestic sponge capacity, create a second source for #titanium alloys, and build supply-chain requirements into future #defence contracts. Strengthening these capabilities is critical to India’s growing defence ambitions:@SameerP_IND & Veer Puri or-f.org/39995

#India’s #cancer burden is already substantial, even though its population is younger than #China’s and its age-standardised rates are lower. The priority is to expand screening, diagnostics, treatment and financial protection before demographic ageing intensifies demand: @oommen or-f.org/39981 #HealthPolicy #Ageing

#ClimateChange makes rainfall unpredictable, but crop insurance still pays by area averages rather than actual loss. A #farmer's field can be destroyed while an undamaged neighbor gets the same payout. #KhetScore measures individual farm conditions through satellite imagery, ensuring protection reaches those who actually suffer the loss: Siddharth Yadav or-f.org/39988

The Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 changes the economics of India’s #UPI ecosystem. Any future Merchant Discount Rate (#MDR) should be low, transparent and targeted at large merchants, with safeguards for small businesses and ordinary users to preserve #DigitalPayments adoption: @BardhanArya or-f.org/39983

#India-#US ties have expanded across defence, intelligence and technology, even as differences over #Pakistan and #Russia persist. The brief by @TheDee70 argues that durable cooperation depends less on political chemistry than on reliable institutions. or-f.org/40004

The #India–#Japan biogas initiative must go beyond technology transfers. Japanese expertise, long-term capital and India’s #biomass resources and manufacturing ecosystem could create a scalable biomethane value chain—strengthening #energy security while supporting rural livelihoods and the circular economy: @ParulBakshi_ & Pranita Gupta or-f.org/39970 #EnergyTransition