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Why in news? The Government of India notified the Environment Audit Rules 2025, creating a new class of “environment auditors.” These independent ...
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Why in news? The Government of India notified the Environment Audit Rules 2025, creating a new class of “environment auditors.” These independent ...
Why in news? At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin in 2025, Nepal’s Prime Minister raised the issue of Lipulekh Pass with Chine...
Why in news? The long‑standing debate over the constitutional limit on caste reservations came back into focus in early September 2025. Some state...
Why in news? In September 2025 India’s export prospects dimmed after the United States announced punitive tariffs of up to 50 per cent on a large...
Why in news? India’s defence production sector received a boost in 2025 when export orders from the corporatised ordnance factories crossed ₹3,500...
Why in news? In September 2025 the Union Cabinet approved a six‑year incentive scheme worth ₹1,500 crore under the National Critical Mineral Mis...
Why in news? The year 2025 marks the centenary of the Self‑Respect Movement, launched in 1925 in present‑day Tamil Nadu. Commemorations and disc...
Why in news? Physicists around the world are excited about recent experiments suggesting the existence of Majorana particles in superconducting nanowi...
Why in news? At its 56th meeting in September 2025 the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council recommended consolidating the tax rate structure into two...
Why in news? Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Odisha was formally upgraded to a tiger reserve in 2025 after receiving approval from the National Tiger ...
Why in news? A devastating landslide in Sudan’s Darfur region in late August 2025 killed over a thousand people and destroyed an entire mountain vi...
Why in news? The Supreme Court has reopened a decade‑old debate about whether schools run by religious and linguistic minorities should be exempt fr...
Why in news? With the retirement of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia in August 2025, India’s Supreme Court once again has only one woman on its 34‑member ...
Why in news? India has built roughly 44 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy projects – mainly solar and wind – that are ready to generate electrici...
Why in news? On 2 September 2025 India airlifted about 21 tonnes of relief supplies to Afghanistan after a powerful earthquake in the country’s east...
Why in news? At the Semicon India conference held in Bengaluru in early September 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled Vikram 3201 — India’...
Why in news? The Institute for Economics and Peace released the Global Peace Index (GPI) for 2025, ranking 163 countries on their level of peacefulnes...
Why in news? In early September 2025 residents of Band Bazar in Nanda Nagar, a town in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, experienced sudden land subsi...
Why in news? The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) launched the BHARATI initiative in September 2025 to nu...
Why in news? The Union government has issued new rules under the Immigration and Citizenship laws giving Foreigners Tribunals (FTs) powers equivalent ...