Current affairs

India-Japan Maritime MOU signed includes ?

• strengthening of cooperation between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Indian Navy, including information sharing in the field of Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), as well as enhanced cooperation in areas such as Search and Rescue (SAR) and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR).

• strengthen coordination between both sides for the protection of Sea Lines of Communications

• Japan-India Army exercise ‘Dharma Guardian’ and the Japan-India Maritime Exercise “JAIMEX” and Japan-India Air Force exercise “Veer Guardian 26”. Japan Air Self-Defence Force fighter aircraft will, for the first time, visit India and participate in the exercise.

• welcomed the first trilateral naval PASSEX exercise involving Japan, India and Indonesia

• proposed 4th India- Japan 2+2

What is Indo Pacific Logistics Network ?

launched by QUAD nations i.e Australia, India, Japan, US

to support partner countries in the event of a natural disaster, through transporting of personnel and supplies

Core industries and which one is added and what key changes done in ICI

Iron ore, cement, electricity, coal, steel, refinery products, natural gas, crude oil, fertilizer

Iron ore added

KEY CHANGES:

• base year replaced from 2011-12 to 2022-23

• Steel index now use gross production instead of net production

• Only Raw Coal has been retained in the new series of ICI, by excluding Coal Middling and Washed Coal in order to remove double counting

• Linking Factor for Overall Index of Core Industries is 1.47

Linking factor formula :

Linking Factor=   Geometric Mean of the monthly ICI of old series for 2022-23

   Geometric Mean of the monthly ICI of new series for 2022-23

• Iron Ore and Electricity have been the major drivers of overall growth of ICI during recent months.

National Report on Deep-Sea and Distant-Water Fishery Resources of the Indian EEZ to Fuel Sustainable Blue Economy

Ministry of Earth Sciences

• document compiles nearly four decades of oceanographic research and three decades of systematic surveys across India's 2.37 million square kilometre Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

• research vessel, the Fishery and Oceanographic Research Vessel (FORV) Sagar Sampada

• encompassing more than 400 oceanographic cruise

• "Twilight Zone" (Mesopelagic Layer) : Extending from 200 to 1,000 meters deep (below the surface), this zone houses dense communities of lanternfishes (myctophids), deep-sea shrimps, and cephalopods. Their vertical migration contributes to the biological carbon pump, transferring carbon from surface waters to deeper ocean layers.

Sujalam Bharat DPI

under ministry of Jal Shakti

Key objective of this Policy is to enable governed and interoperable data exchange between DDWS, State/UTs, Gram Panchayats, Government organisations and authorised sectoral stakeholders. The framework strengthens Panchayat-centric governance, citizen participation, grievance redressal, participatory asset monitoring and service accountability across the rural water ecosystem.

Bench of HC of J&K is enabled where ? and what need to link with that current affair

Ladakh

A.214 and A.241

and UT can have its own HC i.e Delhi

About zonal councils

is Statutory bodies, established under part III of State Reorganization Act, 1956

five main Zonal Councils: Northern, Central, Eastern, Western, and Southern.

separate regional body called the North-Eastern Council (NEC)

Composition for zonal councils:

• Union home minister

• CM of each state + each state nominates 2 ministers

• upto two members represents each UT

Composition for NEC:

• Chairman nominated by President (usually Home minister Union)

• Governor and CM of each states

• 3 members directly appointed by President

National Commission for Minorities is constitutional or statutory body ?

Statutory under National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992

Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme

• India is now the world's 2nd largest mobile phones manufacturer by volume

• Smartphone’s emerged as India's single largest exported product category in 2025

• has two Target Segments:

  • Target Segment 1 (TS1): Incentivizing mobile phone manufacturing

  • Target Segment 2 (TS2): Supporting Indian mobile phone brands

• The Scheme tenure shall be 5 years, i.e. from FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31

• For TS1, incentives range from 2.25%–5%.

• Eligibility

  For TS2, an "Indian Brand" requires:

  • registered/incorporated in India

  • IP and trademark held in India

  • management control with Indian citizens

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  51% shareholding by Indian citizens

  • in-house R&D/design capability in India.

12th BRICS Communication meeting

• held in Pune

• theme of the ICT Track under India’s Chairship, “Innovate, Cooperate and Transform (ICT) for a Resilient Future”

• four pillars — sustainable and resilient digital and ICT ecosystems; cybersecurity and trustworthy ICT; digital skilling and capacity building; and innovation, startups and entrepreneurship.

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Red rot and Top borer diseases

in sugarcane

• Red rot - fungal disease

• Top borer - an insect pest