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Current Affairs (Lecture-10)

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UN Champions of Earth Lifetime Award 2024 – Madhav Gadgil
 Awarded for: His contributions to environmental conservation and efforts in
preserving biodiversity.
 Awarded by: United Nations

Key Contributions:
 Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEAP):
o In 2010, appointed by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests
under Jairam Ramesh
o Chairperson: Madhav Gadgil
o Purpose: Study the impact of population pressure, climate change,
and development activities on the Western Ghats.
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Key Findings of Gadgil’s Report (2011):
1. Extreme recommendations against activities like quarrying, mining, and hydro
projects in the region.
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o Mudumalai NP

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o Wayanad NP
o Choolannuar WLS (Peacock WLS)

India's Largest Conservation Reserve in Spiti Valley 05:40

 Tsarap Chu
 Area: 1,585 square kilometers
 Location: Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh (HP)
 Significance:
o Largest conservation reserve in India.
o Prime habitat for the snow leopard.

Snow leopard
o IUCN Status - Vulnerable
o Found in – J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal
Pradesh
o Often Known as the Ghost of the Mountains.

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Jayshree Vencatesan Receives Ramsar Award 08:30

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 First Indian to win the Ramsar Award for Wetland Wise Use.
 She is co-Founder of Chennai based Care Earth Trust.

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 Total Ramsar Sites in India (as of July 29, 2025): 91
 Ramsar Convention: Signed in 1971, came into force in 1975.
 India Joined: February 1, 1982.
 First Ramsar Sites in India: Chilika (Odisha) and Keola deo (Rajasthan)
 Ramsar Sites for Carbon Studies:
o India’s First Teal Carbon Study: Being done at Keola deo National
Park.
 Maximum Ramsar Sites in India: Tamil Nadu (20 sites).
 Worldwide Maximum Ramsar Sites: United Kingdom. 13:00
 Indias’s Rank – 3rd (Globally)
 Ramsar Sites in Bihar:
o Kanwar Lake: 39th (Begusarai Dist)
o Nagi Dam (81st), Nakti Dam (82nd) (Jamui Dist. - Jhajha forest
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 First Ramsar site in Jharkhand- Udhwa Bird Sanctuary(Sahebganj)

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 Concern: Rapid retreat due to climate change

 Forecast: Will vanish by 2040

First Bio Bank for Animal Conservation

 Location: Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, Darjeeling
 Focus: Frozen genetic materials of animals for conservation
 Purpose: To preserve the genetic materials of endangered species

Ganges River Dolphin - Tagged for Conservation 20:20

 Location: Assam, India
 National Aquatic Animal: Ganges River Dolphin (since 2009)
 Population: 90% of Ganges River dolphins are in India
 Habitat: Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna-Karnaphuli River System
 Characteristics: Blind, known as Susu
 Project: Project Dolphin (launched in 2020)
 Dolphin Sanctuaries: Vikramshila Dolphin Sanctuary, Bhagalpur
 Research Center: National Dolphin Research Centre in Patna
 Dolphin Day: Celebrated on 5th October
 IUCN Status: Endangered

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NMCG, IIT (BHU) and Denmark - Smart Laboratory on Clean Rivers (SLCR)
Project - Banaras
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Ministry of Culture Initiative: "Ek Desh Ek Dhadkan" 23:40

 Ministry: Ministry of Culture
 Objective:
o To pay a heartfelt tribute to the undying spirit of patriotism
o To honour the brave hearts of the nation

Government’s RRB Consolidation Drive 25:00

Effective Outcome:
o The number of RRBs has been reduced from 43(Phase 3) to 28 under
One State- One RRB Scheme.
o This is the fourth phase of amalgamation.

RRB Coverage:
o These 28 RRBs will cover 700 districts with more than 22,000
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Operation Red Weeding - Israel

 Objective:
o To eliminate top officials of Iran's military forces
o Carried out by Israel

Operation Nernia - Israel

 Objective:
o To eliminate top nuclear scientists of Iran

Important One Liners 29:30

 NTPC Vindhyachal (MP):

o First in the world to convert carbon dioxide into methanol.
 Mohali:
o India’s first biomanufacturing institute, aimed at producing
biofertilizers, biopesticides, etc.
 Udhampur:
o India’s first climate monitoring station.

 State of Global Climate Report:

o Given by the World Meteorological Organization.

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 India’s Rank in Environmental Performance Index 2024:

o Ranked 176th out of 180 countries (2025 report is not yet available).
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LiFE Initiative (Lifestyle for Environment): 31:00

o Initiative focused on adopting environment-friendly lifestyles.
o Introduced at COP26 in Glasgow, UK.
o Encourages practices like switching off lights and closing running taps.

India's First Underwater Museum and Artificial Coral Reef: 32:15

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o Location: Sindhudurg, Maharashtra (District: Sindhudurg,
o Venue: INS Guldar, decommissioned ship.
o This will be India’s first underwater museum, showcasing artificial coral reefs.

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 Diu has become the first district in India to meet its entire power demand using
solar energy, with a capacity of 11.88 MW.
 Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu contribute to 71% of India's total solar
installations.
 The Delhi Legislative Assembly is the first legislative assembly in India to run
entirely on solar power.
 Wind Capacity: Gujarat > Karnataka.
 India added 3.4 GW of new wind capacity in 2024, with Gujarat (1.250 MW),
Karnataka (1.135 MW), and Tamil Nadu (980 MW) leading the way. These
states continue to dominate in wind power generation.
 2070 Target – Net Zero Emissions
 2030 Target – 500GW Renewable Energy
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First Geothermal Project in Northeast India- West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh.

Geothermal Energy: It is derived from the Earth’s interior and generated primarily
through the slow decay of radioactive particles.
 India’s Geothermal Potential: 10,600 MW.

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 Countries First Successful Geothermal Project: Located in the Manuguru
region of Telangana, developed by Singareni Collieries Company Limited
(SCCL), with a 20 kW pilot plant.
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Telangana becomes the first state to notify the categorization of Scheduled Castes
(SCs) after the Supreme Court's landmark judgment.

 Supreme Court Verdict (2024): A seven-judge Constitution Bench in the

State of Punjab vs Davinder Singh case allowed States to sub-classify SCs
and Scheduled Tribes (STs).
 Sub-classification of SCs:
o It allows for granting separate quotas for more backward groups
within the SC categories.
 Telangana's Action:
o Telangana has issued a notification that implements Scheduled Caste
sub-categorization, which will be applicable in employment (article
16(4)) and education (article 15(4)).

India's Energy Landscape 40:40

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 Total installed power capacity: 476 GW(June 2025)
 Power shortages dropped from 4.2% (2013-14) to 0.1% (2024-25).
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Installed Nuclear Capacity (As of January 2025):

 Total: 8180 MW.
 Target: 100 GW of nuclear capacity by 2047.
 Union Budget: ₹20,000 crores allocated for R&D in reactors.
 India's first fast breeder reactor at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu.

Nuclear Plants in India:

Plant Name Location
Kaiga Karnataka
Tarapur Maharashtra
Kakrapar Gujarat
Narora Uttar Pradesh
Jaitapur Maharashtra

Note: North India's first nuclear plant is coming up in Gorakhpur, Haryana.

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Mt Taranaki, New Zealand, has been granted legal human rights.

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 The Maori people of New Zealand consider the mountain as their ancestor.
 It is a dormant volcano.
 Te Urewera National Park and Whanganui River in New Zealand have also
previously been granted legal human status.

Dhaka-dhak Series
 Ahilyabai Holkar Airport is India’s first zero waste airport (Indore)
 O P Jindal University, Haryana : Constitution museum.
 Polio Outbreak in Papua New Guinea in 2025.
 Bald Eagle is now the national bird of the USA (previously native to North
America).
 Zhongshan National Monitoring Station in Antarctica has been opened by
China.
 La Prensa: Winner of UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2025 for
being Nicaragua's oldest newspaper and raising voices against wrong.
 Himkavach: A dress designed by DRDO to protect soldiers deployed in
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 IGI Delhi is the 9th busiest airport.
 IIM Ahmedabad to open its first international campus in Dubai.

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Zomato Renamed: Zomato has been renamed as Eternal.

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IIT Madras
o IIT Madras has unveiled Asia's largest shallow wave basin.
o The new innovation will revolutionize marine research and
innovation.

One Scientist, One Product Programme

 Initiative of ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research)

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o Theme: "Cosmology in Dharma & Dhamma"

 First Asian Buddhist Summit held in New Delhi
o Theme: "Role of Buddha Dhamma in strengthening Asia"

 SAMRIDH (Startup Accelerators of MeitY for Product Innovation,

Development, and Growth)

 BHARTAPOL PORTAL:
o Aims to provide assistance to Indian law enforcement agencies in
seeking assistance from foreign law enforcement agencies in criminal
matters related to transnational organized crime.

 10th WORLD Ayurveda Congress held at Dehradun

 SEMICON India 2024 held at Greater Noida
 SUBHADRA SCHEME (State of Odisha):
o Women in the age group of 21-60 years will receive Rs 50,000 over a
span of 5 years.
 Vadhvan Port:
o 13th major port of India (Location: Palghar, Maharashtra)

 India's First Organic Fisheries Cluster in Sikkim:

o Located in the Soreng district (No chemicals, no antibiotics, etc.)

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 Uma Kanjilal is the first woman Vice chancellor of IGNOU.

 Former CM of Kerala, Shri V.S. Achuthanandan passed away at the age of
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 Jayant Narlikar : Noted astrophysicist passed away at the age of 87.
 IRDAI is the outcome of the Malhotra committee.
o Outcome of IRDAI Act 1999.
o Incorporated as a statutory body in 2000.
 Ajay Seth is the new IRDAI chief.

Dr. Purnima Devi Barman: Whitely Gold Award 2024 13:45

 Named in TIME’s Women of the Year 2025 list for her extraordinary
contributions to conservation.
 Distinguished wildlife biologist from Assam and the only Indian woman on
the list.
 Known for: Efforts to save the greater adjutant stork (Hargila) and
creating the Hargila Army, an all-
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o Can simultaneously handle 5 ships.
 Chief Operating Officer of Apple – Sabih Khan (Indian origin).
 Vizhinjam Port:
o Located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, inaugurated by PM Modi.
o India's first deep water container transshipment port.
o Previously known as Rajendra Chola Patinam in the Chola period.
o Referred to as "Balita Port " in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea Book.
o Ranked 38th in the World Bank Logistics Performance Index (2023).

 Bihar is classified as a "Fast Mover" state(Landlocked country).

US Election 18:50
 Election Results:
o Kamala Harris (Democrat) received 226 votes.
o Donald Trump (Republican) won with 312 votes, securing 49.8% of
the popular vote.

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Donald Trump's Presidency:

o 47th President of the United States,
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earlier served as the 45th President.
o Republican Party.
o Only the second president in U.S. history
to serve non-consecutive terms (22nd
and 24th).
o Vice President during - J.D. Vance.
o Assassination attempt on Trump: Butler,
Pennsylvania.

 Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th) - First President in U.S. history to win non-
consecutive second term.

U.S. Withdrawal from WHO: 22:15

o The U.S. withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council
(UNHRC), located in Geneva, Switzerland.
o The U.S. withdrew from WHO (World Health Organization).
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o Established in 1948, World Health Day celebrated on April 7.
o Director-General of WHO: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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 Vaibhav Taneja:
o Vaibhav Taneja is the CFO of Tesla (since 2023).
o Taneja has been with Tesla since 2017 and is also the Treasurer of
the proposed America Party led by Elon Musk.
o Taneja is of Indian origin.

Bobby Mukkamala:
 Indian-origin physician Bobby Mukkamala has been sworn in as the 180th
president of the American Medical Association (AMA).
 He is the first Indian-origin physician to lead the AMA.

Six Indian Americans in U.S. House of Representatives: 29:00

 Six Indian Americans have been sworn in as members of the U.S. House of
Representatives.
 This is the largest number of Indian representatives so far in the U.S.
House.
 Suhas Subramanyam(Most IMP) became the first Indian to represent
Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Georgia - first U.S. state to introduce a bill against anti-Hindu discrimination.

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Georgia has become the first U.S. state to introduce a bill against anti-Hindu
discrimination.
 This bill will include Hindu phobia as a crime in their penal code.
 The measure will allow the state to act against people or organizations that
target the Hindu population.

2024 Quad Leaders' Summit: 30:00

 Held at: Wilmington, USA

 Genesis: The Quad was formed in response to the 2004 Tsunami when these
four countries (USA, India, Japan, and Australia) came together to provide
humanitarian assistance.
 Initiated in 2007 by Japanese PM Shinzo Abe.
 Members: USA, India, Japan, Australia.
 2025 Quad summit will be held in India.
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 World’s First 3D Printed Train Station

 The components of the station were 3D-printed elsewhere and assembled on-
site in less than six hours.

Denmark's e-Methanol Plant : 32:00

 Location: Kasso, Denmark

 World's first commercial scale e-methanol (e-Methanol) plant
 e-Methanol is produced from green hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide.
 Can be used in the shipping industry.
 Denmark is set to become the first country to impose a tax on methane
emissions from pigs, sheep, etc., starting from 2030.

Bashar Assad's Fall After 14 Years of War in Syria: 32:00

 Bashar Assad fled to Russia after his government collapsed.

 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led the rebellion against Assad's regime.
 Abdul-Muhammed Al-Julani (also known as Ahmed Al-sharaa) was the
leader of HTS.

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Raisina Dialogue 2025: 35:00

 Initiative by: Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) + Observer Research

Foundation (ORF).
 Chief Guest: Christopher Luxon, Prime Minister of New Zealand.
 Theme for 2025 edition: "Kālachakra - People, Peace and Planet."
 Inaugurated by: Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
 Significance: India’s flagship conference focusing on global geopolitics and
geo-economics.
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Nobel Prize 01:10

 No Indian working in India has won a
science Nobel in 94 years.
 CV Raman is the only Indian to win a Nobel
in science, awarded the Nobel Prize in
Physics in 1930.

Alfred Nobel’s Will (1895):

 Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, engineer,
industrialist, and the inventor of dynamite,
gave the largest portion of his fortune to a
series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry,
Physiology/ Medicine, Literature, and
Peace, to be called the "Nobel Prizes."
 In 1968, the Prize in Economic Sciences was added, started by Sweden’s
central bank, the Sveriges Riksbank.
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 Nobel Prize in Physics – The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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 Recipient: Narges Mohammadi, Iranian human rights activist.

 Award Reason: Awarded for her ongoing fight for human rights, particularly
women's rights in Iran.

Mother Teresa (Nobel Peace Prize 1979):

 Born: 26 August 1910, Uskup, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, North
Macedonia).
 Died: 5 September 1997, Calcutta, India.
 Award Reason: For her humanitarian work through the Leader of
Missionaries of Charity, helping the poor and suffering.

Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Prize 2014):

 Born: 11 January 1954, Vidisha, India.
 Award Reason: For his efforts to fight against child labor and for the right to
education for all children.

Han Kang - Nobel Prize in Literature 2024: 8:35

 Country: South Korea
 Award Reason: For her intense poetic prose that
confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility
of human life.

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Jon Fosse - Nobel Prize in Literature 2023:
 Nationality: Norwegian
 Award Reason: Known for writing novels heavily pared down to a style
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called "Fosse minimalism."

Rabindranath Tagore - Nobel Prize in Literature 1913:

 Born: 7 May 1861, Calcutta, India
 Died: 7 August 1941, Calcutta, India
 Prize Motivation: "For his profoundly sensitive, fresh, and beautiful verse, by
which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in
his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024: 11:00

 David Baker (U.S.) was awarded
the prize for computational
protein design.
 Demis Hassabis (U.K.) and John
M. Jumper (U.K.) were awarded
the prize for protein structure
prediction.
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with artificial neural networks.

 Neural Networks:
o Help AI systems make decisions with minimal
human assistance.
o They learn and model relationships between
input and output data that are nonlinear and complex.
o Neural networks are crucial for advancing machine learning and artificial
intelligence.

Albert Einstein (1921)

o Awarded for: Theoretical physics, especially his discovery of the
photoelectric effect.

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1930)

o Awarded for: His work on the scattering of light and the discovery
of the Raman effect.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1983)

o Awarded for: His theoretical studies on the structure and evolution
of stars.

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
o Awarded to: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier
o Awarded for: Experimental methods generating attosecond pulses
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Nobel Prize in Medicine 2024:
 Awarded to:
o Victor Ambros
o Gary Ruvkun
 Reason for the award:
o For the discovery of microRNA and its
role in post-transcriptional gene
regulation.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023:

 Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
o Awarded for: Their discoveries concerning nucleoside base
modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA
vaccines against COVID-19.
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Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2023

 Awarded to: Claudia Goldin
o Motivation: For advancing our understanding of women's labor
market outcomes.

Abhijit Banerjee
 Award: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of
Alfred Nobel 2019
 Born: 21 February 1961, Mumbai, India
 Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
 Prize motivation: "For their experimental approach to alleviating global
poverty"
Amartya Sen
 Award: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of
Alfred Nobel 1998
 Born: 3 November 1933, Santiniketan, India
 Affiliation at the time of the award: Trinity College, Cambridge, United
Kingdom
 Prize motivation: "For his contributions to welfare economics
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