News of The Day – 31st January 2025

News of The Day – 31st January 2025

• About Point Nemo.
• About the Expedition of INSV Tarini.
• Route of the Expedition and Mapping.

• Renaming of “Jaffna Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centre”.
• Reason Behind Renaming.
• About the Indo-Lanka Accord (1987) and  the 13th Amendment (13A).
• Issues raised against 13 A.
• Way Forward towards resolving Ethnic issues. 

• About Social Security for Workers.
• What is Social Security?
• Existing Provision for Social Security.
• Challenges regarding social security of workers in India.
• Government Initiative to provide Social Security.
• Ways to provide Social Security.

• What is Domicile?
• Provision for Domicile Reservation
• Issue Regarding Domicile Reservation.
• Supreme Court Directives on Domicile Reservation.

• About Leprosy.
• Status of Leprosy in India
• Initiative to tackle Leprosy.
• About targeted containment and its effectiveness in case of Leprosy.

• What is the Doomsday Clock?
• Factors impacting the Doomsday Clock.
• Its significance in the present context.
• Ways to avoid the Doomsday Calamity.

• About Ghaggar River Pollution
• NGT findings on Ghaggar River
• About Ghaggar River

• Recent Crowd Management Issue.
• About Science of Crowd Management.
• About Crowd Density and Crowd Crush.
• Government and Organiser Responsibility.
• Ways to Improve Crowd Management.

• About Changing the Colour of Greenland’s Lake.
• Factors responsible for the change.
• About eutrophication and its impact on water quality.
• Ways to mitigate the impact on the lakes.

• Issues Regarding Ammonia level in Yamuna.
• Impact of Ammonia on water quality and health.
• Yamuna River and its Course.
• Ways to reduce Ammonia level.

• Key Findings of the Study.
• About (Cusat), (EUMETSAT), and the UK Met Office.
• Extreme Events on Southwest coast.
• Impact of Extreme Events.

• Issue Regarding Animal Species under threat of extinction.
• Conservation Status of the Animals.
• About Indian Gharial
• Conservation Efforts.

• WHO recommendation for Salt Intake.
• Impact of High Sodium Intake
• Alternatives of High Sodium Salts 
• Benefits of using Low Sodium Salts.

• About the Stricter Penalties.
• Rationale Behind the Tightening by RBI
• About the Payment and Settlement Systems Act (PSS Act)