News of The Day – 3rd June 2025

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

• About Lokmata Devi Ahilya Bai
• How is the government making women-led development a pivot of national governance?
• Need for women-led development
• Status of women in India
• Challenges related to women led development in India
• Way Forward

• About Delhi High Court order on protecting the personality rights, and publicity rights of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
• What are personality rights, and how are they protected under Indian law?
• Difference Between Personality and Publicity Rights
• Legal Provisions for Personality Rights in India

• What does the arrest of Sharmistha Panoli mean for freedom of speech in India?
• How does the judiciary intervene to uphold constitutional freedoms?
• Significance of the Supreme Court’s verdict in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India?
• Constitutional provision w.r.t. Freedom of speech

• About the District De-Addiction Centres (DDACs)
• About “Gap” Districts
• National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction (NAPDDR)

• About Paraguay and it’s location
• Key areas of cooperation between India’s and Paraguay
• About MERCOSUR
• India-MERCOSUR Preferenctial Trade Agreement

• Aid-Washing Concept
• Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and Aid-Washing Allegations
• Strategic Use of Aid

• How did the introduction of machine guns during World War I transform traditional military tactics?
• How has Ukraine’s ‘Operation Spider Web’ exemplified the evolving role of drones in modern warfare?
• Concerns related to use of Drone
• How India can Strenthen its Drone Capabilities?

• What are FPV drones?
• What makes FPV drones useful in combat?

• Israel’s Laser Weapon
• About Laser Weapons
• Integration with Iron Beam System.

• About IndiaAI Mission
• National Compute Capacity Milestone
• Indigenous Foundation Models
• AI Kosh and Dataset Integration

• About Bharat Gen: First indigenously developed government-funded LLM.
• Significance of Bharat Gen
• About Generative AI and Large Language Model
• Additional Reading:
• About BharatGen Summit