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        Track 1: Trade, Enterprise, and Economies

• Paper ID 49: A Quantitative and Socio-Economic Assessment of India’s Fiscal Federalism
• Paper ID 55: Digital Payments and Rural Financial Inclusion in India: Behavioral Barriers, Policy Enablers, and the UPI-Led Transformation
• Paper ID 59: Is India Growing or Just Borrowing? Evidence from Household Consumption
• Paper ID 70: Who Captures the Mine? Bilateral Critical Mineral Deals and Value Distribution in the Post-WTO Trade Architecture
• Paper ID 79: Skill Development, Migration, and Aspirations among Indian Youth
• Paper ID 86: Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and Emerging Economy Exports: Implications for India–EU Trade
• Paper ID 88: Weaving Futures: Women’s Agency in India’s Solar Silk Revolution
  
  Track 2: Sustainable Transitions: The Urgency of Today

• Paper ID 43: Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and the Empirical Reality: Studying Policy Gaps in Municipal Solid Waste Management in India
• Paper ID 48: Clouds of Crisis: MANAV's Ecological Blindspot
• Paper ID 51: Synthesis of Bio-Derived Graphene for Catalytic Wet Peroxidation Treatment of Phenol-Containing Industrial Effluent
• Paper ID 52: Travel Time as a Missing Metric: Evaluating Pune’s Liveability by Accessibility
• Paper ID 68: From Waste to Function: Top-Down Fabrication of Carbon Quantum Dots from Plastics
• Paper ID 71: Biochar-Based Green Catalyst Derived from Agricultural Wastes for Effective Water Treatment
• Paper ID 111: Developing Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework Materials as Novel Adsorbents to Improve Carbon Dioxide Capture
  
  Track 3: Medicine & Life – From Genes to Communities

• Paper ID 34: AI-Driven Early Mental Health Risk Detection in Students 
•  Paper ID 42: Senescence–TGF-β Coupling Defines Chemotherapy-Resistant Transcriptional States in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
• Paper ID 46: Modulating eEF2K and mTOR Pathways to Improve CD8+ T Cell Anti-Tumour Activity
• Paper ID 63: Efficacy of Intermittent vs. Continuous Social Reintroduction in Reversing Behavioral Effects of Social Isolation in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
• Paper ID 93: The Seabed Observatory Framework: An Autonomous, Event-Triggered System for Longitudinal ‘Omics’ in Extreme Environments
• Paper ID 99: Engineered Indole-Producing Lactobacillus Regulates APC Fate and T-Cell Differentiation via AhR Signaling to Ameliorate Diabetes
• Paper ID 105: Construction and Characterization of BioID Constructs for Candidate Mitochondrial Proteins
• Paper ID 110: Dynamic Modelling of Antibiotic Resistance: A Behavioural Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Approach
  
  Track 4: Ethics, Regulation and the Digital World

• Paper ID 6: Fairness and Explainability Trade-offs in Machine Learning for Healthcare Applications
• Paper ID 47: Blockchain-Enabled Welfare Systems for Ethical Digital Governance in India
• Paper ID 50: Sovereignty Without Borders: Corporate AI Weaponisation and the Collapse of State Accountability in International Law
• Paper ID 62: Labour and Leisure: Clock-Time as a Technology of Colonial Governance and Its Subversions in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta
• Paper ID 83: Governance of the China-DPRK Digital Corridor
• Paper ID 84: From Data Protection to Data Sovereignty: Governing Non-Personal Data for India’s AI Mission
• Paper ID 94: Not an Author, Not a Tool: Rethinking AI’s Place in Copyright Law
  
  Track 5: Innovation, Precision and Revolutions in Matter

• Paper ID 33: Pseudo-Landau Levels from Strain-Induced Pseudomagnetic Fields in Tilted Dirac Cones
• Paper ID 64: Physicochemical and Microbial Analysis of Mustard and Sunflower Oil
• Paper ID 67: Comprehensive Multi-Parameter Analysis of Cow’s Milk Quality Using Physical, Chemical, and Microbial Indicators
• Paper ID 69: Advancing Plant Nanobiotechnology: Nucleic Acid Delivery for Transient Expression
• Paper ID 72: Comparative Analysis of Removal of Organic Dyes by ZnO Nanoparticles Synthesized from Chemical and Green Methods
• Paper ID 90: Internet of Pings: Reflections on the ‘Effect’ of Perennial Access
  
  Track 6: Shaping the Future: Engineering, Infrastructure, and Societal Development

• Paper ID 10: Smart Surveillance: A Real-Time Face Recognition System for Criminal Detection
• Paper ID 21: Advanced Adaptive Intrusion Detection System for Critical Infrastructure Security
• Paper ID 27: Go Tours: A Framework for Holistic, Context-Responsive Tourism Recommendation
• Paper ID 37: Dynamic Ensemble Learning for Algorithmic Trading: A Comprehensive Framework with Adaptive Model Weighting and Multi-Pattern Recognition
• Paper ID 78: High-Fidelity Ground Truth for Stereo Depth Estimation via Confidence-Based Fusion of SGM and LIDAR
• Paper ID 102: LLMs as Dynamic Automated Market Makers Using Token Prediction for Price Discovery
• Paper ID 106: Efficient False Data Attack Detection in Smart Grid Systems Using XLC-Stack