News of The Day: 25th December 2024

News of The Day -25th December 2024

SOURCES: The Hindu, Indian Express, Live Mint, Business Standard, Economic Times, and PIB.

• About Makaravilakku festival
• Sabrimala temple entry case
• Crowd management practices

The Hindu

• Work of Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
• Migration trends in India

Former top court judge V Ramasubramanian appointed NHRC chief

• About NHRC and its mandate
• Appointment, tenure and Powers of NHRC Chief

Amendments in Conduct of Election Rules, 1961

• What are the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961?
• Citizens’ right to access election related records.

Lokpal calls SEBI chief

• About Anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpal 
• About impropriety and conflict of interest on the basis of a Hindenburg Research report

Centre scraps ‘no detention’ policy for Classes 5, 8, lays stress on remedial measures

• Remedial measures for closing learning gaps in schools
• Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Rules, 2024
• National Education Policy 2020

Golden Visa programme

• About Spain’s Golden Visa program
• Alternate methods to attract foreign investment

Ministry of Women and Child Development to celebrate and commemorate ‘Veer Bal Diwas’ and ‘Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar’ on 26th December, 2024

PIB

• About Veer Bal Diwas and Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar
• Contributions to the vision of Viksit Bharat.
• Reaping demographic dividend of India

55th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting

Business Today

• About Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council
• Difference between CGST, SGST, IGST

Why do we lose muscle mass with age?

The Hindu

• Biological aging in humans and rodents
• What are deletion mutations?
• DNA, mRNA, and the gene
• Mitochondrial vs Nuclear DNA

Human contact threatens endangered lion-tailed macaque

The Hindu

• About Lion-Tailed Macaque
• Conservation status and efforts to protect  lion-tailed macaque
• Human-wildlife interaction
• What are hotspots?