SHANTI Bill 2025: The Union Government has introduced the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, 2025 in the Lok Sabha to overhaul India’s nuclear energy laws and enable private sector participation in building and operating nuclear power plants for the first time since Independence. Key Provisions of SHANTI Bill […]
Day: December 18, 2025
PC&PNDT Act in the Digital Age
PC&PNDT Act in the Digital Age: The fight against sex-selective abortion in India has moved online, where influencers and self-styled doctors circumvent the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (PC&PNDT Act) by promoting unscientific gender-prediction myths to vast audiences.The internalised bias for sons has renewed focus on gender bias, digital […]
Mercy Petition
Mercy Petition: The President of India has rejected the mercy petition of a convict found guilty of kidnapping, raping, and murdering a two-year-old girl in Maharashtra in 2012, reaffirming the constitutional process governing capital punishment.A Mercy Petition is a constitutional remedy available to convicts, especially in death sentence cases, seeking pardon, commutation, remission, or suspension […]
DGLL Hosts 3rd IALA Council Meeting
DGLL Hosts 3rd IALA Council Meeting: The Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships (DGLL) successfully hosted the 3rd Council Meeting of the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation (IALA) in Mumbai, highlighting its growing role in shaping international maritime standards and navigation safety.India launched a Digital Ticketing Portal for Lighthouse Tourism to enhance digital […]
The RESPOND Basket 2025
The RESPOND Basket 2025: ISRO has released the RESPOND Basket 2025, inviting research proposals from academia aligned with its current and future mission needs.The RESPOND Basket is a curated set of mission-oriented research problem statements identified by ISRO and Department of Space (DoS) centres.It guides academia towards targeted research that directly supports ISRO’s upcoming space […]
The Tianjin Declaration
The Tianjin Declaration: At the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin, India joined other SCO members in endorsing the Tianjin Declaration, committing to deepen cooperation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance and capacity building.The Tianjin Declaration is the outcome document adopted by the SCO Council of Heads of States at the 2025 Tianjin Summit, […]
Tigris River
Tigris River: Iraq’s Tigris River is facing an acute crisis due to shrinking flows, heavy pollution and upstream water controls, raising fears that parts of the river may dry up.The Tigris River is one of the two great rivers of ancient Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, forming the heart of the historic Fertile Crescent, where […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 17th December 2025
Today’s Current Affairs: 17th December 2025 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Red-Shanked Douc Monkey
Red-Shanked Douc Monkey: Customs officials at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) arrested a passenger who was smuggling two red-shanked douc monkeys. It is an Old World monkey which is considered as a “Queen of primates”. They occur in subtropical and tropical broadleaf evergreen or semi-deciduous forests and to a lesser extent in secondary evergreen and […]
Dandami Madia Tribe
Dandami Madia Tribe: Members of the Dandami Madia tribe perform the traditional Bison Horn Maria dance during a village festival at Judiya Para in Jagdalpur. Dandami Maria, also known by other names like Bison Horn Maria and Khalpati Maria, is a tribal community of Chhattisgarh. They have derived their name from their unique custom of […]
