Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a historic free trade agreement between India and the European Union, emphasizing a “double engine” growth approach amid global turmoil. This “biggest free trade agreement” aims to provide stability and common prosperity, unlocking new opportunities for India’s labor-intensive products and service sectors.

In September 2025, Nepal witnessed large-scale anti-government protests led by Gen Z youth, during which the prison premises were vandalised.

In a sharp escalation of the row involving Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and Yogi Adityanath, an Ayodhya bureaucrat has resigned, saying he is doing this in support of the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, the PM and the Constitution.