Catch up!
- India UK FTA → CETA
- MMR shows declining trend
- FinMin’s draft climate taxonomy document➡️clean energy investment |CoP 29(NCQG)
- RBI relaxed FPI investment limit in corporate debt securities➡️geopolitics & tariff wars
- Single use packaging➡️84% of Himalayan Plastic waste(70% non-recyclable)
- Digital Right u/ Art-21 ➡️ internet as basic right for edu, employment, gov, social inclusion➡️SC : Pragya Prasun v/s UoI | Amar jain vs UoI
- Digital Access right u/ Art-21➡️PwD’s | KYC ➡️ Rajive Raturi v/s UoI (2024)
- Support center for trans in Kerala | 1Viruthi campaign for Kerala Waste issue
- Gujarat police to recruit transgender people as traffic marshal
- YR4 to hit moon ➡️ asteroid, 2032, by NASA
- Deep sea in EEZ by CMFRI, NFDB to💸, u/ Matsya sampada, for mesopelagic & marine resources
- Rivers in News
- formalisation & incentivisation➡️recycling industry for 2e-waste management
- E-waste management rules 2022➡️floor pricing for EPR certs
- MSME lacking staff, access to formal credit: SIDBI
- Genome edited rice (only native genes)➡️ DDR Dhan-100 (kamala) | Pusa DST Rice-1
- SC strikes down retrospective env. clearances
- National Manuscripts mission (Gyan Bharatam Mission)
- Amrit Bharat scheme➡️ railway stn. revamp
- DPIIT+GEAPP➡️3ENTICE
- e-Zero FIR ➡️ by I4C for cyberfraud >10L (pilot, Delhi only)
- shirui lily festival ➡️ Manipur
- Mizoram ➡️ first fully literate state & Goa→2nd (crossed 95%)
- LADAKH→ 1st administrative unit ; (reason-ULLAS)
- ULLAS-New India literacy prog, centrally spon → 2022-27
- Now, Afghanistan in CPEC
- Chagos Is. (from UK to Mauritius)➡️Diego garcia→largest
- e-Emergency X-miscellaneous visa → Afghan artists, traders
- PM-Shri, SAMAGRA Shiksha funding to states→ implementation of NEP2020
- Oran lands, sacred grooves→community reserves u/ WPA, socio-religious & livelihood ➡️ Rajasthan
- Obesity crisis
- Assam’s Nagshankar ➡️ turtle conservation
- ICMR-SCD stigma scale (4th gloablly, 1st in India), sickle cell
- Alzheimer begins w/ breaking of BBB & not neurons
- Sela tunnel→Arunachal | BhupenHazarika bridge→ Assam | 16k km NE Gas grid
- Google’s AI Matyroksha → layered AI strategy
- MAHASAGAR , India-Maldives
- Axiom-4 mission, ISS, NASA, Falcon9(spaceX), S.Shukla
- Bharat Forecasting system, IITM pune, Arka supercomputer, 6km resolution(⬆️in world)
- US-India TRUST initiative → strategic tech
- Sugar boards, NCPCR nudge to CBSE | 25g acc to. WHO
- Tarang shakti →India’s 1st multinational air ex.→ger,fr,aus,jap,uk,uae,us,spain
- AMCA | age of Autonomous warfare4 | Defence Innovation ecosystem rising
- ShangriLa dialogue by IISS→ Asia’s premier defence & security summit (many countries join)
- Press Council
- electric HANSA → nextgen 2seater electric trainer aircraft, by CSIR-NAL
- dugongs → sea cow, vulnerable
- Inadequate diagnostic services → critical gap in cancer care by NAMS(advisory body)
- ECINET → EC single point dashboard,voter turnout, Index cards→post election statistical reporting format(non-statutory)
- Tobacco affordability fueling cancer epidemic in India
- Tianwen-2, chinese deep space mission, samples of near earth asteroid by ‘27
- AhilyaBai, MP, 300bday, Maheshwari saree → reversible borders, 2 way weave(bugdi)
- UDISE+ → unified districts info sys for edu ➡️ trend to go in pvt schools, NOT govt
- 100% gazans - risk of famine by UN
- upper Siang Project in Arunachal
- Viksit krishi sankalp abhiyan → annadata are also jeevandata(by MoA minister)
- ex. Nomadic Elephant → India + Mongolia
- BioE3 | Bharatiya Antariksh stn. ➡️ DBT(biotech dept) , ISRO & MST(ministry)
- NDB
Footnotes
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“Spirit of personal hygiene has not translated into clean public spaces” ↩
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e-waste as asset rather liability ↩
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As India charts it’s path towards Viksit Bharat, robust climate assessments will ensure that progress isn’t just fast but FUTURE PROOF ↩
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where deterrence is digital & dominance is algorithmic ↩