News of The Day: 10th November 2025

News of The Day – 10th November 2025

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

(with Syllabus Relevance)

(GS-1: Geography)

• What is Volcanic Lightning ? 
• How it aids eruption warnings, aviation safety; earliest record: Vesuvius 79 AD; 
• WWLLN detection; lithosphere-troposphere links.

(GS-1: Geography)

• About Super Typhoon Fung-wong.
  • Route and Landfall.
• About Typhoons and their categories..

(GS-2: Polity & Governance)

• Shift from calorie-focused food security to nutrition security via proteins, antioxidants, vitamins
• Challenges: stunting, low micronutrient intake
• Policy: Incentivize bio-fortified crops, diversify diets, align subsidies with outcomes;

(GS-2: Polity & Governance)

• PM inaugurates NALSA conference (Nov 8); launches Community Mediation Module;
• Themes: paralegal capacity, tech outreach, rights-based aid
• Resolved 8L cases via Legal Aid Defence System
• Enhances access for marginalized, reduces litigation.

(GS-2: Polity & Governance)

• SC directs states/UTs to remove strays from hospitals, schools, transport hubs post-sterilization/vaccination, no release to same site
• Shift from ABC Rules 2023.
• Aug 2025 Delhi/NCR order; implies public safety (Art 21) vs animal welfare; municipal role key.

(GS-3: Science & Technology)

• About neurotechnology and its concerns.
• UNESCO’s first global framework (force Nov 12, 2025)
• Safeguards neural data as a new category, mental privacy, bans non-therapeutic child/workplace use
• India: align AI/neurotech ecosystem

(GS-3: Science & Technology)

• Aditya-L1’s VELC (IIA-NASA collab) captures CME parameters near Sun lift-off, first visible-wavelength spectroscopy; aids space weather forecasting; boosts solar physics, satellite/power grid protection; ISRO’s strategic autonomy.

(GS-3: Science & Technology)

• Google leases land near airport for AI hub post-Aus Defence cloud deal; strategic Indian Ocean spot for monitoring straits; energy from local mining; env approvals pending; geo-econ: data sovereignty, defence synergy, blue economy.

(GS-3: Environment)

• SC-NBWL recommends Schedule II reinstatement (from IV post-2022)
• About Schedule II of Wildlife Act.
• Mandates site-specific mitigation, WII studies; balances conservation, human-wildlife interfaces.

(GS-3: Environment)

• About Climate Science and key global trends.
• World hit 1.5°C warming (Antarctic ice cores); 13% wildfire deaths from climate
• Amazon 10-47% heat/drought stress by 2050; Iceland volcanoes boosted by glacier melt; 2025 warmest on record
• COP30 focus: NDC updates, finance for 2035 goals.