News of The Day – 6th June 2025

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

• About NITI Aayog and Cooperative Federalism
• Evolution of Fiscal Federalism in India
• Mechanisms for Competitive Federalism
• Aspirational Districts and Blocks Programme
• Role of Central Sector (CS) and Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS)
• Impact of Fiscal Transfers on State Development
• Challenges in Deepening Federalism
• Way Forward

• Key Highlights of the Upgrade
• About Index Cards in Elections
• Significance of Index Cards

• 4th India-Central Asia Dialogue
• Focus Areas of the Dialogue
• Recent Developments in India-Central Asia Relations

• Current Legal Framework on Nuclear Energy
• Arguments FOR Amendment
• Arguments Against Amendment
• Key Challenges
• About Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC)

• Key Findings of the IBC
• About Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016
• Why was IBC Introduced?
• Impact on Credit Culture
• Challenges to IBC’s Effectiveness
• Way Forward

• • Exposomics and Its Relevance
• Environmental Disease Burden: Global and Indian Context
• About Human Exposome
• Role of Exposomics in Public Health and Policy
• Challenges in Adopting Exposomics in India
• Climate Change and Exposomics
• Way Forward

• Overview of Darwin’s ‘Abominable Mystery’
• Evolution of Plant Life-Cycles
• Gametophyte vs. Sporophyte Phases
• CCMB’s Discovery: Role of SHUKR Gene
• Implications for Food Security and Climate Change

• Tamil Nadu Notifies Greater Flamingo Sanctuary
• Ecological Significance
• About Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve
• About Greater Flamingo
• Greater vs. Lesser Flamingo

• Approval for expansion of Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve
• About Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve

• Key Findings of the Study
• About Nanoplastics & Microplastics
• Implications of Nano Plastics
• Emerging AMR threats
• About E. coli bacteria

• India’s 1st Variable Speed PSP
• About Variable Speed Pumped Storage Plant (PSP)