News of The Day:15th July 2025

News of The Day – 15th July 2025

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

• About Jarawa Tribe
• Concerns over state intervention (like census, tourism) violating isolation
• Legal protections under Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Regulation, 1956
• About PVTG

• About the North Eastern Region SDG index
• Key Findings and Significance

• About the World Travel & Tourism Council.
• About Economic Impact Trends Report.
• Employment revival post-COVID

• India’s achievement of  50% installed power capacity from non-fossil sources (wind, solar, hydro, nuclear).
• India Energy Mix.
• Challenges: Storage, grid integration

• About Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS), 2023
• Implemented under Energy Conservation Act, 2001
• Challenges: Sectoral readiness, pricing volatility, MRV standards
• Implications for India’s Net Zero by 2070 commitment

• About ESZs (Eco-Sensitive Zones) buffer areas under Environment (Protection) Act, 1986
• Current MoEFCC guidelines
• Important for balancing conservation with livelihoods

• 180+ bird species recorded in Kaziranga grasslands
• About Kaziranga: Assam’s UNESCO site

• Seeds sent to space
• About The Mission
• Post-Flight Research
• Significance

• Astronomers detect a new “Super Earth” using transit method
• What is the “Super Earth”?
• Significance for planetary habitability studies
• Advances in exoplanetary astronomy and astrobiology

• Sweida: City in southern Syria, largely Druze population
• Site of recent civil unrest, economic protest
• Relevance for India: Geopolitical awareness, conflict mapping

• About Tanimbar Islands: Part of Maluku province, eastern Indonesia.
• Recent earthquake and its impact.