News of The Day: 30th May 2025

News of The Day – 30th May 2025

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

• About Kumbakonam betel leaf.
• About GI tags
• Role in protecting local agro-products.

• Arguments on Mother-tongue vs. aspirational English-medium education.
• Provisions under NEP.
• Role of CBSE in enforcing NEP.

• Demands by Andhra Pradesh for special status
• Legal and constitutional basis for Special status demand.
• Current states with special status and their background.

• About Early Childhood education and its significance.
• Gaps in Anganwadi and foundational learning.
• NEP reforms in ECCE (Early Childhood Care & Education).

• About Village Defence Committees.
• Revival of Village Defence Committees in border regions.
• Role in insurgency and cross-border infiltration.

• ECINET as Election Commission’s intranet tool.
• Enhancing secure digital communications.
• Election management reforms.

• About OPEC.
• OPEC strategy vs. US shale oil.
• Impact on global oil prices.
• Geo-economics of oil diplomacy.

• About World Tobacco Day.
• Corporate tactics post-tobacco bans.
• Brand diversification, e-cigarettes.
• Global tobacco regulation loopholes.
• About WHO FCTC.

• How overregulation hampers productivity, innovation?
• Areas of Concern.
• Need of regulatory policy reforms.
• Importance for startups and ‘Ease of Doing Business’ reforms.

• UNDRR’s GAR findings.
• Climate-exacerbated risks.
• Need for anticipatory governance.
• SDG 13 linkages.

• About the Declaration of State Disaster.
• State-specific failures in disaster planning.
• Case studies in urban flooding, landslides.
• Disaster policy gaps.

• AI-enabled weaponry used  in Operation Sindoor.
• Emerging military technologies.
• Legal & ethical vacuum in warfare doctrines.

• Neuroscience of olfaction.
• Role of olfactory bulb, scent receptors.
• Applications in perfumery and neurobiology.