Hwasong-20: North Korea recently unveiled its latest and most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-20 at a military parade presided over by the country’s leader Kim Jong Un. It is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed by North Korea. The engine used in the missile is a solid-fuel engine and is made up of carbon fiber […]
Day: October 13, 2025
Palau
Palau: Palau recently hosted the world’s first-ever live underwater interview. It is an island nation located in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of a tightly clustered archipelago of approximately 300 islands with a total land area of 458 sq.km. It is geographically positioned both in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth. Palau […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 13th October 2025
Today’s Current Affairs:13th October 2025 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Microfinance Loan Defaults Surge in 2024–25 : Sa-Dhan’s Bharat Microfinance Report
Microfinance Loan Defaults Surge in 2024–25: Sa-Dhan’s Bharat Microfinance Report Microfinance loan defaults in India have risen sharply in FY 2024–25, according to Sa-Dhan’s Bharat Microfinance Report 2025. Sa-Dhan, India’s self-regulatory body for microfinance institutions (MFIs), publishes the annual Bharat Microfinance Report tracking sectoral credit performance and financial inclusion outcomes. The proportion of microfinance loans […]
India–UK Connectivity and Innovation Centre
India–UK Connectivity and Innovation Centre: India and the United Kingdom jointly launched the India–UK Connectivity and Innovation Centre (CIC) to advance cooperation in digital technologies, 6G research, and secure communications, with an investment of million (₹282 crore) over four years. The India–UK CIC is a bilateral research and innovation platform aimed at developing next-generation telecom […]
Qubit
Qubit: Caltech has built the world’s largest neutral-atom qubit array—6,100 qubits—pushing quantum computers closer to error correction and full-scale computation. A qubit, or quantum bit, is the basic unit of information used to encode data in quantum computing. It can be best understood as the quantum equivalent of the traditional bit used by classical computers […]
Pradhan Mantri Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana: The Prime Minister recently launched two new agriculture schemes, the PM Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana (PMDDKY) and the Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses, with a total outlay of `35,440 crore. It is a new scheme by the Indian government to support farmers. Under this scheme, farmers get direct financial help, […]
Keratoconus
Keratoconus: A recent study has revealed that the treatment of keratoconus, a condition that threatens vision, can worsen even after treatment. It is a vision disorder that occurs when the normally round cornea (the front part of the eye) becomes thin and irregular (cone) shaped. This abnormal shape prevents the light entering the eye from […]
Siddi Tribal community
Siddi Tribal community: The President of India expressed happiness that the Siddi tribal community, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group, has achieved a literacy rate of over 72 per cent. The Siddi community is an Indo-African tribal community that descended from the Bantu community of Africa. It is believed that they first came to India in […]
Bharat Taxi Initiative
Bharat Taxi Initiative: The National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), has joined hands with Sahakar Taxi Cooperative Limited to support the upcoming Bharat Taxi initiative. It is a first-of-its-kind cooperative-driven, citizen-first national ride-hailing initiative. It is being jointly promoted by leading cooperative and financial institutions including NCDC, […]
