Current Affairs

BRICS Pay

Context: The BRICS nations, led primarily by China and Russia, are developing an independent and decentralised payment system known as...

West Asia on the Brink

Context: On March 7, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he had reached out to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah...

Aerosols Climate

Context: A study published in November 2024 in Geophysical Research Letters warns that reducing aerosol emissions without concurrently cutting greenhouse...

The Green Credit Programme (GCP)

Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan officially unveiled the GCP on December...

Fluorosis Sonbhadra

Context: Sonbhadra district, the second-largest in UP, has excessive fluoride in groundwater due to its rich granite deposits. More on...

Expanding Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)

Context: The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is set to broaden the scope of Extended Producer Responsibility...

India’s Heavy Industries and Engineering Sector

Context: The heavy engineering and machine tools sector, categorised under the capital goods industry, is receiving considerable attention in India...

Fiscal Health Index 2025

Context: The Fiscal Health Index (FHI) initiative, introduced by NITI Aayog, is designed to evaluate and understand the financial stability...

India’s Declining 10-Year Bond Yields

Context: India’s 10-year bond yields have witnessed a sharp decline ahead of the RBI’s monetary policy review on April 9,...

Poverty Reduction in India: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis

Context: Recent  Findings of NITI Aayog’s Discussion Paper ‘Multidimensional Poverty in India since 2005-06’ have highlighted the decline in poverty...

AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)

Context: The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (UK) and the AI Safety Institute (now AI Security Institute) released the...

Waqf (Amendment) Bill

Context: The Lok Sabha passed the Waqf (Amendment) Bill in a late-night session following an intense 12-hour-long debate.  More on...

Supreme Court’s Role in Ensuring Timely Action on Anti-Defection Cases

Context: Recently, Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai emphasised that the court is not powerless if a Speaker remains indecisive on disqualification...

India and Its Diaspora: Rethinking Dual Citizenship

Context:  Over the past 50 years, the movement of people across the world has been one of the most significant...

Parliamentary Panel Calls for Higher Income Limit for OBC Creamy Layer Exclusion

Context: A parliamentary committee examining the welfare of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) has recommended raising the income ceiling for the...