News of The Day –  17th January 2025

• About FTI-TTP
• How is it aligned with Viksit Bharat 2047
• Difference between PIO, OCI, NRI

• What is Avadi resolution?
• Rajiv Gandhi’s ‘Action Plan for a Nuclear Weapons Free and Non-Violent World Order’ of 1988
• About Cold war

• About UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
• Digital public infrastructure (DPI)
• How to improve governance for climate action?

• About mud volcano eruption
• What is Ghost Island?
• About Kumani Bank volcano

• Compact Research Module for Orbital Plant Studies (CROPS)
• Possibility of life cultivation in space
• Works of ISRO- recent SpadeX mission

• Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program
• Malabo Declaration
• What is an agri-food systems approach?

• Difference between NEER and REER?
• Bank of International Settlements (BIS)
• Measures to strengthen the rupee

• Concepts of Pay Commissions
• What is the term of reference (ToR)?

• Recent debates on work life balance
• Status of India’s Labour Productivity and Working Hours
• Argument in Favour of 70–90 hour work weeks
• Argument against 70–90 hour work weeks

Additional Information:

• Concept of ESOPs and sweat equity