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Why in news? In July 2025 the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas launched the Apna Ghar scheme to provide safe resting facilities for truck drivers...
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Why in news? In July 2025 the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas launched the Apna Ghar scheme to provide safe resting facilities for truck drivers...
Why in news? The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee appealed to the Indian government in August 2025 to regulate the use of artificial‑intellig...
Why in news? The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced in July 2025 that the Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme (PMNDP) now covers 7...
Why in news? The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) issued new operational guidelines for the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) effective 1 ...
Why in news? The silver‑backed chevrotain, a species of mouse deer thought to be extinct for more than three decades, was sighted again in southern ...
Why in news? Slovenia attracted international attention in August 2025 by becoming the first European Union member state to announce a total arms emba...
Why in news? India’s Department of Consumer Affairs announced that a “repairability index” will soon be introduced for consumer electronics. The...
Why in news? The India Justice Report 2025 highlighted that only about 1.55 million people received legal aid during 2023–24 even though roughly f...
Why in news? India has launched large‑scale mangrove restoration projects in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Mumbai as part of its efforts to build natural...
Why in news? To promote economic independence among women, the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) launched the Swayamshakti Sahakar ...
Why in news? Reports from Gujarat in late July 2025 indicated that three Asiatic lion cubs had died in Amreli district, and several others were under...
Why in news? The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi‑Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) l...
Why in news? The Union Cabinet approved a grant of ₹2,000 crore over four years to the National Cooperative Development Corporation in July 2025. Th...
Why in news? A Bengaluru‑based company called Protoplanet inaugurated the Human Outer Planetary Exploration (HOPE) station in Ladakh’s Tso Kar re...
Why in news? On 1 August 2025, India observed the 105th death anniversary of Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The Union Home Minister paid tribute to this pioneer...
Why in news? In July 2025, India commissioned its first indigenously developed 1‑megawatt green hydrogen plant at Deendayal Port in Kandla, Gujarat....
Why in news? In late July 2025 the United States Department of State imposed sanctions on 20 companies worldwide—six of them based in India—for al...
Why in news? China recently approved construction of a gigantic 60‑gigawatt hydropower dam at the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet�...
Why in news? On Global Tiger Day 2025, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change released a report titled “Status of Small Cats in Tige...
Why in news? On 31 July 2025, India successfully launched the NASA–ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite aboard a Geosynchronous Satellite...