News of The Day: 21st May 2025

News of The Day – 21st May 2025

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

• Recent discovery of 16th-century Kannada inscription.
• Association  with the Vijayanagara period.
• Significance for  inscriptional epigraphy and cultural heritage.

• About  Shirui Lily flower and Festival.
• Importance in eco-tourism and cultural integration.

• Focus on leveraging AI for improving governance and transparency.
• Area of Impact of using AI in Governance.
• Relevance to Digital India, e-Governance, and responsible AI use.

• About Official Secrets Act.
• Criticism: Often misused to curb press freedom and transparency.
• Reforms needed for balancing national security with transparency.

• About World Metrology Day 2025.
• Foundation for global metric standards.
• India’s contribution to international metrology and BIS role.

• India’s address toWorld Health Assembly 2025.
• Need of support for global access to medicines, vaccines.
• India’s health diplomacy and vaccine initiatives (e.g., Vaccine Maitri).

• Status of Potato Production in India.
• Implications for agri-economy, food processing, and exports.
• Role of climate-resilient farming and agri-research.

• About WHO’s Pandemic Agreement.
• Key provisions: sharing of samples, equitable distribution of vaccines.
• Global cooperation in outbreak response.
• India’s position and role in global health governance.

• About M R Srinivasan: Noted Indian nuclear scientist and former AEC chairman.
• Contribution in developing PHWR (Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors).
• Role in India’s indigenous nuclear energy programme.

• About Astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar.
• Hoyle–Narlikar theory: Alternative to Big Bang; integrates Mach’s principle with general relativity.
• Significance of Hoyle–Narlikar theory.

• About Jarosite: A rare iron-potassium sulfate mineral.
• Significance of Studying Jarosite. 

• About Field Marshal
• Highest military rank in the Indian Army (ceremonial and honorary).
• Significance of recognition as Field Marshal.

• About Euthalia malaccana.
• Significance for conservation and ecological studies.
• North-East India as a biodiversity hotspot.