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➡️NGT pointed out that, Clear the Ghazipur landfill by 2028.(MCD) 👉Dump receives around 2,400-2,600 tonnes of garbage daily 👉Waste-to-energy(WTE) Plant in Ghazipur processes around 700-1000tones of waste/day

➡️India-US Counter terrorism. 👉US designated "The Resistance front(TRF) as foreign terrorist organisation & specialy designated global terrorist. 👉TRF is backed by Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group( responsible for 2008, Mumbai attack)

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➡️Israel's air strike on Syrian's sites 👉Damacus 👉Sweida

➡️Crimes against women 👉NCRB, 2022- Total of 4,45,256 cases of crimes against women registered(an increase of 4%from 2021) 👉majority of cases registered under 'cruelty by husband or his relatives(31.4%) 👉Assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty(18.7%) 👉rape (7.1%)

➡️Union has merged 36 schemes of 11 ministries into the PM Dhan-Dhanya Krishi Yojana(PMDDKY) 👉What includes... 🔹it will have an outlay of 24,000cr/year for six years. 🔹Scheme will help 1.7cr farmers 👉Aim of scheme 🔹Post harvest storage at panchayat & block level 🔹Improving irrigation facilities 🔹facilitating long term & short term credit. 👉Implementation of scheme 🔹100 Districts will be identified Based on..... ◇low productivity ◇low cropping intensity ◇less credit disbursement. 🔹District selection could be improved by using annual net agricultural income per hectare However, one district will be selected from each state. 👉Focus of Scheme 🔹exclusively on agriculture and allied sectors 🔹Crop diversification 🔹self- Sufficiency in agriculture and allied 🔹expansion of natural and organic farming. 👉Hopes of Schemes 🔹Higher productivity 🔹value addition in agriculture and allied sectors 🔹local livelihood creation while increasing domestic production and Achieving self- reliance

➡️PLFS released by MoSPI 👉Emplyment rate calculated on (the age above 15yrs old) 👉Women's participation in labour force decreased, both rural and urban 👉 Due to... 🔹Seasonal agricultural patterns 🔹intense summer 🔹Decline rural inflation

➡️Cyber Crime 👉Study conducted by Lokniti-CSDS. 🔹Delhi residents lost over ₹700 Crore in 2024 to cybercrime. 👉Structural Gaps 🔹IT Act,2000 only officers(not below the rank of an inspector) can investigate Cybercrime. 🔹lack of competent officers 🔹lack of digital reporting literacy,(police stations and reporting website) 🔹Very few get awareness from designated institutions( mostly get from social media) 👉Steps has been taken 🔹Cyber Swachhta Kendra 🔹1930 helpline 👉Preventive measures 🔹Avoid suspicious link 🔹Using anti-virus 🔹regular change of password. 👉Socio- economic digital divide 🔹High income person Adopt comprehensive security(Anti-virus, two step authentication) 🔹low income groups are very far from comprehensive security

➡️India's solar capacity grew from 2.82GW to 105GW 2014- 2025)

➡️Over Tourism. 👉Southern Europe, Spain, Italy and Portugal(contibuted 6%GDP from tourism), protested against Overtourism. 'Tourists go home' , 'your holidays, my misery' 👉India contributed 2% from Tourism. We need regulated Tourism for that we must have a comprehensive Tourism framework.

➡️Dowry Death in India 👉in 2017-2022, an average of 7,000 case of dowry death reported every year 👉Investigation is Slow and conviction is very low( avg. Of 6500 cases sent for trial, convicted only 100) 👉only 4500 charge sheeted by police, rest of either stuck at stages or disposed off due to - insufficient evidence, false complaint, withdrawn or compromised.

➡️July 15, World youth Skills Day. 👉43% India's STEM Graduates are women 👉represent only 27% of STEM workforce. 👉acc. to(PLFS)2023-24, India's female labour force participation rate(FLFPR) has risen to 41.7% 🔹47.6% increase in rural women. 🔹25.4% increase in urban. 👉acc. To UNESCO institute for statistics(2021), only 31.5% researchers are women globally. 👉WB suggests, Achieving 50% female workforce participation rate could elevate GDP growth by 1% ➡️What is going on... 👉NEP2020, Ministry of education has integrated education with skills development and life skill training 👉focus on ITIs and expanding vocational skilling- Bringing technical education and training closer to villages and towns, ensuring access for youth 👉Gender based budget share has increased from 6.8%(2024/25) to 8.8%(2025/26) 👉in 2025/26 budget introduced, loans for women Entrepreneurs, National skill training institutes ➡️Need to do more... 👉Industry must from passive recruiter to active enabler of women's career transitions. 👉remove stereotypes- "Coding isn't for girls" 👉"mechanical means masculine" 👉create perception " Classroom to career ❤️When woman earns, her voice echoes across dinner tables, shop floors and policy rooms.

➡️Locations in Gaza strip(Hit by Israel) 👉Deir Al Balah 👉Nuseirat 👉Zawaida

➡️ India, The periodic labour force survey, 2020-21estimated around 11% of our population migrated due to employment related reasons. ( 15crore voters)

➡️Attack of Russia in Ukraine's sites 👉Lviv 👉Dnipropetrovsk 👉Sumy 👉Lutsk

➡️BRICS, primary objective is fostering economic, political and social cooperation among members and collective influence in international governance. 👉including, Greater representation in global bodies, coordinating policy and reducing reliance on US dollar 👉Initiatives(provide funding for sustainable dev. And infra projects)such as New Development Bank(NDB) and Contingent Reserve Arrangement(CRA) as an alternatives to W.B, IMF, ➡️Priority & diversity in BRICS- 👉Brizil's focus on environmental issues and sustainable dev. eg. Guardian of Amazon rainforest 👉 India's as a technology and services reflects emergence as Global IT powerhouse. 👉China's Belt and road initiatives(south- south cooperation) 👉Russia, as a penetration in North ➡️Intra BRICS trade has grown tha G7, tangible shift in global economic activity 👉Surpassing the G7's economic share (30%) in the world eg. Trade b/w Brazil & China increased 50fold in 20yrs China- India 28times in 20yrs

➡️ Gini coefficient- measures of inequality, ranges 0 to 1 👉1 extreme inequality 👉0 perfect equality 🔹India, fallen 2011- 12(.288)- 2022-23(0.255)making one oth the lowest levels of inequality in the world Critics of World Bank data 👉 The in equality figures given by W. Bank are not of income and wealth, but of consumption. 👉Consumption inequality will always be less than income or wealth 👉Data on Consumption comes from Households Consumption expenditure surveys(HCES) (2011-12 - 2022-23) may provide accurate data on low level expenditure, unable to capture high income expenditure Methodological changes in 2 surveys render incompatibility

➡️Ragging in Higher educational institutions. 👉acc. to NCRB2022- 7.6% or 13,044 of all suicides death in india surpassing the combined af farmers and agricultural labourers. ➡️2024, National medical commission survey, 37000 postgraduate revealed that 31% had suicidal thoughts and 4.4% attempted suicide 👉27% postgraduate being ragged, 31% experience abuse from faculty or seniors

➡️India's Credit resort- 👉Around 96% of popu. Has access to a bank acc. 👉poor & low income households are resorting to informal & expensive borrowing 👉loan defaults is increasing among microfinance loans(up to 50,000), they are proxy for non-institutional credit 👉Centre for monitoring Indian economy (CMIE)- b/w2018-19 & 2022-23 borrower from economically weaker sections( earns 1-2lakh/y) borrowed from formal channels saw growth of 4.2% 🔹5.8% growth, borrowing from informal & non institutional sources 👉lower income category( 2-5lakh/ year) 10.4% growth from institutional credit. 🔹12.6% growth from non- institutional credit 👉middle income(5-10lakh/year). ➡️Institutional lending is based on credit score, so low income groups go to non-institutional borrowing and lead to defaults and debt traps. ➡️Sa-Dhan, and RBI appointed self regulatory organisation(SRO)for microfinance institutions- overdue ( more than 90days) loans has been increased from 1.8%2022 - 3.2% 2024

➡️ India's Gender Gap Report- 👉World economic forum- Global Gender Gap Report, 2025 👉 India 138/148 countries. ➡️Structural issues- 👉lower in economic participation, Health and survival ( pillar of Gender parity) 👉india's sex Ratio at birth remain skewed in the world(Son preference) 👉NFHS-5, Nearly 57% women (15-49yrs) are anaemic. 👉 NFHS-5, Fertility rate fallen below replacement level( working popu. Will shrink elderly will rise. 👉India 143 rank in economic participation and opportunity sub index. 👉Women earn less than a third of what men do. 👉Time Use Survey- Indian women perform Nearly 7times more unpaid domestic work than men. 👉in India, 2050,Senior citizen population would be 20% ➡️Need to do 👉improve women's well being and access to basic services ( Health education) 👉 Central and state begin to account for unpaid core work in economic & social policy framework, Gender budgeting, direct invest in care Infrastructure eg. Uruguay & S. Korea integrating core economies into their development plans with positive outcomes 👉Reduce Gender Gap lead to reduce dependency.