HDFC Bank Launches My Business QR: HDFC Bank has introduced “My Business QR”, a first-of-‑its-kind commerce identity QR tailored for small businesses. Unveiled at Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2025, this innovation aims to help retailers make an easy shift from offline to online commerce while enhancing their discoverability, customer engagement, and payment capabilities.My Business QR […]
Sonali Sen Gupta Appointed RBI Executive Director
Sonali Sen Gupta Appointed RBI Executive Director: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed Sonali Sen Gupta as its new Executive Director (ED) with effect from October 9, 2025. With over 30 years of experience at the central bank, Sen Gupta brings deep expertise in multiple policy and regulatory areas crucial to India’s financial […]
Forest Rangers Honored with 2025 International Ranger Awards
Forest Rangers Honored with 2025 International Ranger Awards: Forest rangers often the first and last line of defense for global biodiversity—were honored at the 2025 International Ranger Awards, recognizing their unmatched courage and unwavering service to wildlife protection and forest conservation. The awards, presented by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), highlighted the […]
Nobel Prize in Economics 2025
Nobel Prize in Economics 2025: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 has been awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for their groundbreaking contributions to understanding innovation-driven economic growth. Their work explains how technological progress and creative destruction have transformed economies from stagnation to sustained prosperity […]
Hwasong-20
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 […]
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 […]
