India Launches UPI at Supermarkets in Qatar: UPI (Unified Payments Interface) has been launched at Lulu Group’s supermarkets in Qatar. The launch was led by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, and comes just weeks after UPI was introduced at Hamad International Airport’s duty-free stores. With this, Qatar becomes the eighth country to adopt UPI, […]
Amit Shah Launches Goa’s ‘Mhaje Ghar’ Scheme to Grant Home Rights
Amit Shah Launches Goa’s ‘Mhaje Ghar’ Scheme to Grant Home Rights: Union Home Minister Amit Shah today unveiled Goa’s ‘Mhaje Ghar’ Yojana at a ceremony in Taleigao, intending to legalise homes built on government and community land and confer ownership rights on long-standing residents. Major infrastructure and institutional projects worth over ₹2,452 crore were also […]
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for discovering macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit. Their groundbreaking work proved that quantum phenomena extend beyond microscopic particles.Their work proved that quantum phenomena can occur even […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 7th October 2025
Today’s Current Affairs:7th October 2025 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
PM-SETU Scheme
PM-SETU Scheme: During the Kaushal Deekshant Samaroh which is being held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, the Prime Minister launched the Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation through Upgraded ITIs- PM – SETU.Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation through Upgraded ITIs (PM-SETU) scheme is a centrally sponsored scheme with an investment of Rs 60,000 […]
Tikhir Tribe
Tikhir Tribe: The Tikhir Tribal Council (TTC) recently submitted a representation to the Nagaland Director General of Police, urging the inclusion of aspirants from Tikhir tribe residing in Noklak district in the now-declared Nagaland Police constable recruitment. The Tikhir tribe is one of the indigenous Naga tribes found in the northeastern India. According to the […]
Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary : Six Days Of Daily Bird Walks
Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary : Six Days Of Daily Bird Walks Delhi’s Forest and Wildlife Department recently announced six days of daily bird walks at Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary as part of Wildlife Week celebration. Asola-Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary covering 32.71 sq.km. area on the Southern Delhi Ridge of Aravalli hill range on Delhi-Haryana border lies […]
Ortolan Bunting
Ortolan Bunting: The rare European bird, the Ortolan Bunting, with just a single recorded sighting in Bengal, was spotted at Baruipur, situated in the southern periphery of the city, recently. Ortolan Bunting is a small Palearctic migrant songbird. Scientific Name: Emberiza hortulana The bird is found in most of Europe, with populations found as far […]
Phosphine
Phosphine: Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected phosphine (PH3) in the atmosphere of brown dwarf Wolf 1130C. Phosphine is a chemical compound made of one phosphorus atom and three hydrogen atoms. Phosphine on Earth is developed naturally by bacteria that live in very low-oxygen environments. To produce phosphine, Earth bacteria take up […]
Chlorophytum vanapushpam
Chlorophytum vanapushpam: Researchers during a field exploration in Idukki district’s Vagamon hills have identified a new species of the genus Chlorophytum and named the new species as Chlorophytum vanapushpam. It is a perennial herb belonging to the genus Chlorophytum (family Asparagaceae). It is a close relative of the safed musli. It has been found in […]
