Today’s Current Affairs: 30th August 2025 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Day: August 31, 2025
Vaquita Porpoise : World’s rarest marine mammal
Vaquita Porpoise: World’s rarest marine mammal A new report has highlighted that only about 10 vaquita porpoise, the world’s rarest marine mammal, remain in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), Mexico. Their numbers have plummeted due to entanglement in illegal gillnets used for catching totoaba (an endangered fish prized for its swim bladder). Vaquita […]
Gangotri Glacier : New Study
Gangotri Glacier : New Study A study by IIT Indore and international collaborators reveals that the Gangotri Glacier has lost 10% of its snowmelt flow over four decades due to climate change. Gangotri Glacier is one of the largest glaciers in the Himalayas and is the primary source of the Ganges, the largest river in […]
National Annual Report and Index on Women’s Safety (NARI) 2025:
National Annual Report and Index on Women’s Safety (NARI) 2025: Released by the National Commission for Women, NARI 2025 offers the telling reality of the urban safety landscape. The report, a collaborative effort by the Group of Intellectuals and Academicians (GIA), Pvalue Analytics, The NorthCap University, and Jindal Global Law School, is based on a […]
International Atomic Energy Agency
International Atomic Energy Agency: The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency has said a team of its inspectors are “back in Iran,” It is the world’s leading intergovernmental organisation for scientific and technical cooperation in the nuclear field. The IAEA Statute was approved on 23 October 1956 and came into force […]
Prairies
Prairies: A newly launched database aim to ensure that the prairies are restored much more comprehensively. Prairies are flat, temperate grasslands found in North America. Prairie vegetation is maintained by grazing, fire, drought, and low temperatures. Although grasses dominate, lichens, mosses, forbs, and low- to mid-size shrubs also comprise prairie vegetation. Taller shrubs and trees, […]
Samudrayaan Project
Samudrayaan Project: Two Indian aquanauts recently dived over 5,000 metres in the Atlantic Ocean aboard the French submersible Nautile, as part of training for India’s Samudrayaan Project. It is India’s first manned deep-sea mission under the Deep Ocean Mission (DOM) approved in 2021. It seeks to explore the ocean at depths up to 6,000 metres […]
Nimbrix Missile
Nimbrix Missile: Swedish defense company Saab recently announced the development of a new missile named Nimbrix. Nimbrix Missile is a counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) missile. The missile is being developed to counter the growing battlefield threat posed by small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It was developed by the Swedish defense company Saab. It is its […]
UN Declares Famine in Gaza
UN Declares Famine in Gaza: The United Nations has officially declared a famine in Gaza, marking the first famine in West Asia, with over half a million people facing extreme hunger due to conflict and restricted access to food. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) defines Famine as a situation in which at least […]
33 years Of Rio Earth Summit
33 years Of Rio Earth Summit: The year 2025 marks 33 years since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, a landmark event that shaped global climate governance. Rio Earth Summit (1992) is the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992. Popularly known as the Rio Earth […]
