At 90, the Dalai Lama made history by winning a Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording. His spoken-word album 'Meditations' blends his teachings with music by acclaimed artists, sharing messages of peace and compassion worldwide.

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is now live in over eight countries, including the UAE, Singapore, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, France, Mauritius, and Qatar, positioning India as a global leader in digital payments.

Union Budget 2026 lets NRIs and foreign individuals invest directly in Indian listed shares through RBI rules. The investment limit per person is doubled to 10% of a company, while total overseas individual holdings can now go up to 24%.

In a bid to attract the next wave of AI computing investment, India has offered foreign cloud providers zero taxes through 2047 on services sold outside the country if they run those workloads from Indian data centers.

Indian American entrepreneur and Grammy-winning artist Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon, along with husband Ranjan Tandon, has signed an MoU with IIM Ahmedabad to set up the Krishnamurthy Tandon School of Artificial Intelligence, committing $11.5 million.

Telangana CM A. Revanth Reddy has begun executive education at Harvard Kennedy School, enrolling in the program “Leadership in the 21st Century,” becoming the first serving CM in India to enroll in a Harvard program course certification.