News of The Day – 12th May2025

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

• Who are the Adi Dravidars?
• Traditional performing arts and their cultural value.
• Importance of digital documentation for cultural preservation.

• Gender inequality in informal labour.
• Issues of unpaid care work and low female labour force participation.
• Structural barriers to female labour force participation.
• Way Forward

• About the Early Monsoon Onset.
• Factors affecting monsoon onset.
• Importance of monsoon to agriculture and economy.
• Implications of early onset.

• Constitutional basis for Right to Information (RTI).
• Supreme Court judgments linking RTI to Article 19(1)(a).
• Challenges to transparency and misuse.

• What is Total Fertility Rate (TFR)?
• Replacement level TFR.
• TFR Trends across states.
• Implications for population policy and demographic dividend.

• Status of Manufacturing Sector in India.
• Factors affecting manufacturing growth in India.
• Role of industrial policy, infrastructure, and global supply chains.
• Need for reforms in land, labour, and logistics.
• Government Initiatives to boost the manufacturing sector.

• National Technology Day: Celebrations and themes of 2025
• Significance of May 11 (Pokhran-II tests).
• Role of technology in nation-building.

• What is Kosmos 482?
• History of the failed Soviet space probe.
• Issues with space debris and international space law.

• About Asteroid YR4.
• About asteroids and their classification.
• Near-Earth objects and planetary defense mechanisms.
• Role of ISRO, NASA, and international collaborations.

• About Anamalai Tiger Reserve.
• Importance of wildlife census.
• Methods used and role in conservation planning.

• About Hydrocarbon Exploration at Wadge Bank.
• About Wadge Bank: Location and ecological significance.
• Calls for protected area status.

• Where is the world’s longest banana found?
• Agricultural biodiversity and significance.
• Role in food security and genetic conservation.

• What is the Global Big Day? 
• Role of citizen science in biodiversity monitoring.
• Indian participation and outcomes.

• About GFTM and India’s leadership role. Integration of traditional medicine in global health.
• Relevance in environmental sustainability.