India has surpassed Japan to become the world’s fourth largest economy with a size of $4.18 trillion and is poised to overtake Germany to become the third largest by 2030, the government said. With continuing good growth numbers, India is also the world’s fastest-growing major economy, it said. India’s real GDP grew 8.2% in the second quarter of 2025-26, up from 7.8% in the first quarter and 7.4% in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal.

Amid outrage among a section of the electorate over elderly and ailing voters being summoned for hearings under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed officials not to call such electors — particularly those aged 85 years and above — for physical hearings. In a notification issued on Monday, the Additional Chief Electoral Officer asked all District Magistrates to ensure that electors aged 85 years and above, as well as those ailing and persons with disabilities, are not required to appear in person. If notices have already been issued, officials have been instructed to contact the electors over the phone and carry out the verification at their residences.

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