News of The Day – 21st April 2025

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

• About Karnataka Village Level Antiquities Survey
• Geo-tagging of antiquities
• Heritage conservation challenges

• Inscriptions Documented in Pudukkottai District
• Inscriptions at Chozheeswarar Temple, Ponnamaravathi
• Western Wall Inscription
• Eastern Wall Inscription
• What is an estampage method?
• What are Inscriptions?

• Vice President criticized the judiciary for overstepping its constitutional boundaries
• What is Article 142
• Concerns about Article 142
• Judicial Activism Vs Judicial Overreach

• About the Tamil Nadu Bills on persons with disabilities
• Who are classified as Persons with Disabilities? 
• What is the status of differently abled people in India?
• What are the provisions for accessbility of persons with disabilities in India?
• What are the Challenges faced by the people suffering from disability?
• What Should be the Way Forward?

• India’s Dual Employment Crisis
• About Artificial Intelligence
• How is AI and automation reshaping the future of work
• The Need for Foundational Literacies

• Paste Fill Technology for Mining
• Singhali Mine

• The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy of Kerala
• Key Features of Draft Policy
• What are Intellectual Property Rights?

• ISRO’s Role in Agricultural Monitoring
• What is ISRO’s Comprehensive Remote Sensing Observation on Crop Progress (CROP) framework and its purpose?
• About ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC)

• Discovery of Siderite on Mars
• Significance of Siderite
• Implications for Mars’ Ancient Climate
• Curiosity Rover’s Contribution

• Breakthrough in Greener Recycling of Perovskite PVs
• Structure of a Perovskite Solar Cell
• A Circular Economy Approach to Solar Cell Recycling

• Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary
• Location
• Flora
• Fauna
• Chambal river