GRAP Stage IV revoked as Delhi AQI improves to 271
It was the season's worst spell. Stage IV lasted 11 days.
24 Dec 2025Daily Current Affairs
Daily digests (5-8 items/day).
LVM3-M6 launches BlueBird Block-2, ISRO’s heaviest payload so far
Heavy-lift reliability helps India win global launch business and is needed for Gaganyaan.
24 Dec 2025
Akash-NG completes user trials
Completing user trials is the step before an order. Indigenous air defence matters more after recent drone and missile threats.
23 Dec 2025
CAQM issues notices to six thermal plants over crop-residue co-firing
The rule exists. Plants are not following it. Enforcement is the test.
23 Dec 2025
New base years for GDP, CPI and IIP: release dates fixed
Base revisions can change growth and inflation numbers. Expect questions on why statisticians update weights.
23 Dec 2025
Subansiri Lower: first unit of India’s largest hydro project starts
Big dams in a seismic zone draw local protests. Mains answers should weigh clean power against downstream risk.
23 Dec 2025
India–New Zealand FTA concluded
Investment-linked FTAs (EFTA, now NZ) are becoming India's template.
22 Dec 2025
NITI Aayog report on internationalisation of higher education
Keeping talent and fees at home is the economic case.
22 Dec 2025
PESA at 29: Mahotsav and the state of PESA rules
Without state rules, Gram Sabha powers remain on paper. Jharkhand, with a large tribal population, is still without final rules.
22 Dec 2025
Health Ministry and WHO hold influenza preparedness Chintan Shivir
Bird flu in poultry and the One Health idea make influenza a shared job of the health, animal husbandry and environment ministries.
22 Dec 2025