News of The Day – 10th July 2025

News of The Day – 10th July 2025

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

• About District Mineral Foundation (Mines & Minerals Act, 2015)
• Role in CSR and mining-affected tribal areas
• Convergence with Aspirational District Programme

• Constitutional basis: Part XI, Article 263
• Statutory status: States Reorganisation Act, 1956
• Role in Centre–State coordination

• NPR vs. Census vs. NRC
• Legal backing: Citizenship Rules, 2003
• Constitutional debates on citizenship and fundamental rights

• NAS under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
• Role of NCERT and Ministry of Education
• Foundational Literacy & Numeracy (FLN) goals under NEP 2020

• Role and functions of FATF
• Grey list, black list criteria
• India’s compliance measures on terror funding and money laundering
• UNSC Resolution 1373

• Measures of inequality: Gini Coefficient, Palma Ratio, Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
• Limitations of GDP-centric metrics
• Inclusive growth in Indian context

• Concept of Catastrophe Bonds (cat bonds)
• Disaster Risk Financing mechanisms
• Role of Insurance and Capital Markets in Climate Resilience

• MALE UAVs (Medium Altitude Long Endurance) – Rustom-2/TAPAS
• Role in ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance)
• Make-in-India in defence tech

• Research on space agriculture
• Role of ISRO and BARC
• Application in long-term space missions and food sustainability

• ISRO’s Earth Observation satellite
• Use in oceanography, climate science
• Indo-French collaboration in space research

• IoT architecture and communication protocols
• Applications in public service delivery (health, lighting, smart cities)
• Cybersecurity considerations

• Location of Namibia (Southern Africa)
• Cheetah Reintroduction Programme
• India-Africa relations; South-South Cooperation

• AI for achieving SDGs
• Ethical and regulatory issues in AI
• India’s position: Bhashini, IndiaAI Mission, National Strategy for AI