May'25

Quotes that awaken! Examples for Essay

Catch up!

May Static content

• 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→2^nd (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

1. “Spirit of personal hygiene has not translated into clean public spaces” ↩

2. e-waste as asset rather liability ↩

3. As India charts it’s path towards Viksit Bharat, robust climate assessments will ensure that progress isn’t just fast but FUTURE PROOF ↩

4. where deterrence is digital & dominance is algorithmic ↩