Tuesday, 28 January 2025

Constitutional/legal upheaval 2025

Constitutional/legal upheaval 2025 

=>Assam bans polygamy: The Assam Assembly on Thursday (November 27, 2025) passed the Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill, 2025, aimed at penalising those who enter into a second marriage without legally dissolving the first. The proposed legislation was tabled in the 126-member House on November 25.

Sunday, 19 January 2025

India Defence Sector 2025

 Indian Defence 2025

=>Mitra Shakti 2025: it is a Joint military exercise between India & Sri Lanka. The eleventh edition of the joint military exercise MITRA SHAKTI-2025 between India and Sri Lanka began on Monday (November 10, 2025) at the Foreign Training Node in Belagavi, Karnataka. 

Day, Festival, Exhibition, conferences & meets 2025

 Exhibitions, Days, celebrations, conferences, summits & meets  2025

=>G 20 summit: At the 2025 G-20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg, the host South Africa achieved the adoption of the G-20 Leaders’ Declaration by consensus—despite the U.S. boycott and attempts to block the text.

This was the first G-20 Summit held in Africa,

Sunday, 12 January 2025

Obituaries 2025

 Obituaries 2025

                  

Organizations 2025

 Organizations 2025 

=>India is re elected as Vice Chairman of COP10 Bureau: India was re-elected Vice-Chairperson of COP10 Bureau under UNESCO. The election was held at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 20–22 Oct 2025. The session marked 20 years of the International Convention against Doping in Sport. Convention adopted in 2005 and came into force in 2007.

Friday, 10 January 2025

Persons in the news 2025

 Persons in the news 2025

=>Global Best Teacher Role Model Award 2025: Adding another distinction to her growing list of achievements, National Teacher Award recipient Jyoti Panka has been honoured with the Global Best Teacher Role Model Award 2025 by the MVLA Trust at a ceremony in Hyderabad, marking a proud moment for Arunachal Pradesh's teaching community.


Celebrations 2025

 Celebrations 2025

=>18th Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is celebrated once in every two years to strengthen the engagement of the overseas Indian community with the Government of India and reconnect them with their cultural roots. The 18th PBD Convention was held from

 8th-10th January, 2025 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Thursday, 9 January 2025

Space & Technology 2025

Space & Technology 2025 

=>India's New Seismic Map: India has released a revised Seismic Zonation Map under the updated Earthquake Design Code (BIS, 2025) based on faults, maximum likely events, attenuation, tectonics, lithology, etc.

Details of New Zonation

  • Number of Zones: Earlier, the Indian landmass was demarcated into four earthquake zones, namely Zones II, III, IV, and V.
    • Introduces new highest-risk Zone VI, placing the entire Himalayan arc under it for the first time (previously split between Zones IV and V).
  • Boundary towns between zones: Now automatically fall in the higher-risk category.
  • Hazard mapping: Prioritises geological conditions over administrative boundaries.

India’s Earthquake Vulnerability: 

  • 61% of India’s land now lies in moderate to high hazard zones (earlier: 59%). 
  • 75% of India's population is now in seismically active regions.
  • Implications of New Map: Nudges to retrofitting in high-risk regions, halting expansion on soft sediments or near active faults, enforcing uniform building standards in Himalayan states, etc.
  • Government strategies: 
    • National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) & State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA): NDMA is responsible for setting disaster management policies and SDMAs are in charge of creating and implementing disaster plans
    • National Seismological Network:  Monitors earthquake activities and conducts research on developing earthquake early warning systems.

=>Chandrayan 4: Chandrayaan-4 is a planned lunar sample return mission of ISRO and the fourth iteration in its Chandrayaan programme..India's Chandrayaan-4 lunar sample-return mission, a complex joint effort with Japan, is slated for a 2028 launch. This initiative aims to explore lunar resources and develop crucial operational technologies. Concurrently, ISRO is progressing with its manned lunar mission target of 2040 and the Bharatiya Antariksha Station by 2035.

Appointments 2025

 Appointments 2025

=>Indian CEC to head international organisation: India's Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar is set to assume the position of Chairperson of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) for the year 2026. 

Kumar will officially take charge on December 3, 2025, during a meeting of the member states in Stockholm, Sweden, and will preside over all council meetings throughout 2026. 


Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Games 2025

Games 2025

=>Azlan Shah Cup 2025: played in Malasia is an annual event, this year Belgium grabbed the cup defeating India by 1-0.

Thursday, 2 January 2025

Awards 2025

Awards 2025 

=>Indira Gandhi award 2025: The 2025 Indira Gandhi Award for Peace, Disarmament and Development was awarded to former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, . The award ceremony took place on November 19, 2025, in New Delhi, where Sonia Gandhi presented the prize to Bachelet for her work in human rights, peace, and equality. 

Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Infrastructrure boost 2025

Infrastructrure boost 2025

=>Nyoma Airbase: The importance of Nyoma Airfield, located at 13,700 feet above mean sea level, can be understood from the fact that it is in Eastern Ladakh and is around 30 km inside the LAC.

The conversion of a mud airstrip at Nyoma, close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in south-eastern Ladakh, into a full-fledged airbase capable of handling fighter operations, offers several operational and logistics advantages to the Indian Armed Forces, but the base is not without some vulnerabilities.

Few more important points

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Nobel prizes 2024

Nobel prizes 2024 

1)=>Medicine: the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation

This year’s Nobel Prize honors two scientists for their discovery of a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated.

 


Nobel Prizes 2025

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