News of The Day: 26th April 2025

News of The Day -26th April 2025

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

• About Mati Carbon (an Indian-led climate initiative)
• About XPRIZE
• What is an enhanced rock weathering model?
• Benefits of the model

• Issues regarding high private school fees.
• Provision for free Education for all.
• Challenges regarding Public Education.
• Provisions of NEP 2020 to ensure quality education.
• Ways to bridge the gap in Private and Public Education.

• Key Highlights of Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit, Paris.
• About extension of United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition.
• What is Food literacy?
• Need for better Food Literacy.

• What is the Creative Economy? 
• Potential of Creative Economy In India.
• About World Audio-Visual Entertainment Summit (WAVES) 2025 and WAVES Xcelerator (WAVEX).
• Government Initiatives to promote Creative Economy.

• About escalation OF India- Pakistan rivalry.
• About Proxy War and tactics used under proxy war.
• Challenges for India regarding Pakistan’s proxy war tactics.
• Ways to overcome proxy war tactics of pakistan.

• What is the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme?
• India’s Revocation of SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme for Pakistan
• About SAARC 

• About demonstration of long-duration Active Cooled Scramjet Subscale Combustor.
• Hypersonic cruise missiles and their features.
• Status of Hypersonic cruise missile in India.

• About K Kasturirangan 
• Contribution of Kasturirangan in space technology
• Major committee headed by K Kasturirangan 

• About AI Kiran
• About KIRAN Scheme

• About INS Surat 
• Features of INS Surat
• About Exercise Aakraman
• Objective

• About Akshvi Digital Wallet
• Working Mechanism of Akshvi Digital Wallet
• Significance of Akshvi Digital Wallet