News of The Day: 20th November 2025

News of The Day – 20th November 2025

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

(with Syllabus Relevance)

• Water budgeting framework for 500+ Aspiration Blocks.
• Focus: groundwater recharge, demand-side efficiency, local hydrological planning.
• Integrates MGNREGA water works & community-based monitoring.
• Significance: decentralised water governance, drought/over-extraction mitigation.

(GS 2: Polity and governance)

• SC reiterates that environmental violations cannot be “regularised” routinely. 
• Post-facto clearances dilute EIA regime & precautionary principle.
• Emphasises strict penalties & stronger regulatory oversight.

(GS-2: Polity and Governance)

• SC urges nationwide uniform criteria for organ allocation & waiting lists.
• Seeks standardisation across NOTTO, SOTTOs.
• Objective: equity, transparency, reduce interstate disparities.

(GS-2 Polity and governance)

• About Tribunal Reforms Act
• Provisions on tribunal appointments & tenure ruled unconstitutional.
• Court flags executive dominance affecting judicial independence.
• Orders independent selection panel; strengthens tribunal autonomy.

• About G20 Leaders’ Summit
• Agenda: reforming global financial architecture, climate finance, digital public infrastructure, Global South priorities.
• India to push Mission LiFE, DPI partnerships & development financing. 
• Strengthens India–Africa engagement.

(GS-3 Economy)

• About Trade Intelligence and Analytics Portal
  • Single-window trade analytics system with real-time data.
• Helps exporters identify demand, tariffs, competitor trends.
• Supports MSMEs & export diversification.

(GS-3 Environment)

• Highlights health & economic burden due to nitrate/fluoride/heavy-metal contamination.
• Rural households spend more on medical treatment & water access.
• Calls for real-time quality monitoring, enforcing polluter-pays principle.

(GS-3 Environment)

• About the Climate Change Performance Index.
• Drop due to slow renewable deployment, air pollution stress, climate finance gaps.
•  India is still strong in GHG emissions trajectory but weak in energy efficiency.
• Signals need for faster green transition.

(GS-3 S&T)

• First Indian CRISPR therapy; targets SCD mutations in tribal belts.
• Developed under the National Gene Therapy Mission.
• Reduces dependence on imported therapies; major affordability breakthrough.

(GS-3 S&T)

• About rare-earth magnetism.
• Discovery improves magnet behaviour at quantum scales.
• Applications: quantum sensing, qubit stability, next-gen computing.
• Supports India’s push for indigenous quantum ecosystem.

• About “sigma cycle”
• Study Challenges long-held “one gene–one output” functional model.
• New findings on protein regulation & gene expression complexity.
• Impacts biotechnology, disease modelling, precision therapeutics.

(GS-3 S&T )

• About Kodaikanal Observatory
• Analysis of century-old solar plates reveals long-term solar cycle patterns.
• Helps predict solar maxima/minima & geomagnetic storms.
• Crucial for climate modelling & satellite protection.

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