🔆 23 October 2025 – Current Affairs Round-Up

📍 RBI JUNCTION
✅ RBI “State of the Economy” Report says India remains resilient but not immune to global headwinds — prepared under Deputy Governor Poonam Gupta.
✅ RBI sold $1.7B in August 2025 to arrest rupee’s fall — ₹88.89 per USD on Sept 23; YTD depreciation ~4.6%.

📍 BANKING & FINANCIAL
✅ UPI transactions surge to ₹94,000 cr daily in October, up 13% from ₹82,991 cr in Sept — highest-ever single-day record on Diwali Eve.
✅ Transaction Volume: 754M; Value: ₹1.02 lakh cr; Avg daily transactions: 695M (↑ from 654M in Sept).

📍 INTERNATIONAL
✅ Tuvalu joins IUCN as the 90th Member State.

📍 NATIONAL
✅ India ranks 9th globally in forest area, retaining 3rd spot in annual forest gain – FAO Global Forest Report.
✅ SOAR (Skilling for AI Readiness) – India’s new push for AI-driven education & upskilling, launched by MSDE (Jul 2025); ₹7,500 cr allocated in Union Budget 2025–26.
✅ PSA Office releases AI Paybooks for Agriculture, SMEs & White Papers to boost responsible AI adoption — by Ajay Kumar Sood, PSA to Govt of India.
✅ India’s renewable energy capacity rises fivefold to 197 GW since 2014; target 500 GW non-fossil by 2030.
✅ UDAN Scheme completes 9 years, facilitating 1.56 cr passengers across India since 2016; VGF ₹4,300 cr.
✅ S&P Report: India’s policy reforms & funding drive rapid green energy transition in South Asia; added 35 GW renewable capacity in 2025 (Jan–Sept).
✅ India upgrades Kabul mission to full embassy status, strengthening diplomatic presence in Afghanistan.
✅ India & UK launch Ramanujan Fellowship for young scientists to foster research links.
✅ India surpasses $20B in AI investments, cementing global leadership in digital innovation.

📍 DEFENCE
✅ INS Solhyaradi joins India–Japan Maritime Exercise (JIMEX 25) near Kyushu, Japan.
✅ Indian Navy Commanders’ Conference 2025 begins in New Delhi to review maritime preparedness.

📍 MoUs
✅ Indian Army signs MoU with Delhi Technological University for defence R&D collaboration.
✅ Naval Group & Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders extend MoU to enhance submarine export cooperation.
✅ IUCN & IRENA sign MoU to promote renewable energy & biodiversity protection.
✅ IIT-BHU inks MoU with 39 Gorkha Training Centre to strengthen defence innovation.

📍 STATES
✅ Gujaratis worldwide celebrate Bestu Varash 2025 (Gujarati New Year).
✅ Goa CM Pramod Sawant unveils logo & anthem for FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 — India hosts event after 23 years.
✅ Goa Govt introduces Chess in school & college curricula to nurture young players.
✅ New Odonate species discovered in Silent Valley National Park, Kerala.

📍 APPOINTMENTS
✅ Shantha Rangaswamy elected first woman President of the Indian Cricketers’ Association (ICA).

📍 AWARDS
✅ Neeraj Chopra conferred Honorary Rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Indian Army.

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🔆 Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021

📍 Objective:
✅ Regulates surrogacy in India to prevent exploitation and ensure ethical, altruistic surrogacy only.

📍 Key Points:
✅ Only altruistic surrogacy allowed; commercial surrogacy banned & punishable.
✅ Intending couple: Married Indians (Wife 23–50 yrs, Husband 26–55 yrs), with no living/adopted child.
✅ Surrogate mother: Married, 25–35 yrs, with at least one biological child.
✅ Child’s rights: Surrogate child = biological & legal child of the intending couple.

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🔆 Decline in Sunshine over India

✅ North Indian Plains: Sharpest decline — −13.1 hrs/year.
✅ Northeast Region: Stable sunshine due to weather patterns & Twomey effect (aerosols make clouds brighter, reflecting more sunlight).
✅ Cause: Solar dimming from rising aerosol emissions → smaller, long-lived cloud droplets → prolonged overcast skies.

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🔆 RBI Measures to Boost International Use of Indian Rupee (INR)

📍 Objective
✅ To promote internationalisation of the Rupee — enabling its use for global trade and financial transactions.

📍 Key Measures
✅ 1. INR Loans to Non-Residents:
Authorised dealer banks and their overseas branches can now lend in INR to residents of Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (including banks).

✅ 2. Transparent Reference Rates:
Financial Benchmarks India Ltd (FBIL) to develop reference rates for INR against major global currencies.
Currently available for USD, Euro, Yen, and Pound Sterling.

✅ 3. Wider Use of SRVAs (Special Rupee Vostro Accounts):
Surplus SRVA balances can now be invested in corporate bonds and commercial papers (earlier limited to govt. securities).

📍 About SRVA
✅ A Special Rupee Vostro Account is an account held by a foreign bank with an Indian bank to settle trade in INR directly, bypassing the US dollar.

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🔆 Centre Withdraws Approval for Animal Protein-Based Biostimulants

📍 Context:
✅ The Central Government has withdrawn approval for animal protein-based biostimulants citing religious and dietary sensitivities.

📍 About Biostimulants
✅ Definition: Substances or microorganisms that enhance plant growth by improving nutrient uptake, efficiency, and resilience to abiotic stresses (like drought, salinity, or heat).
✅ Examples: Humic acids, seaweed extracts, liquid manure compost, beneficial bacteria & fungi.
✅ Category: Officially distinct from fertilisers and insecticides, as they promote growth through biological stimulation rather than direct nutrient supply.

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✅ Brihadeshvara Temple, Thanjavur – Built by Rajaraja I.
✅ Gangaikonda Cholapuram Temple – Built by Rajendra I to celebrate northern victories.
✅ Airavatesvara Temple, Darasuram – Built by Rajaraja II, famous for intricate sculptures.

📍 Bronze Sculptures
✅ Chola bronze (lost-wax) sculptures are masterpieces.
✅ Most iconic: Nataraja – Shiva in cosmic dance, symbolizing creation & destruction.

📍 Literature
✅ Thevaram – Shaivite devotional hymns by Appar, Sambandar, Sundarar.
✅ Periyapuranam – Biography of 63 Nayanmars, compiled by Sekkizhar (12th century).
✅ Kamban’s Ramavataram (Kamba Ramayanam) – Tamil translation of Ramayana.

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🔆 Trade & Commerce in the Chola Empire

📍 Infrastructure & Industry
✅ Peruvazhis – Major trunk roads facilitated trade.
✅ Silk-weaving in Kanchipuram – Guild-based industry with residential colonies for weavers.

📍 Merchant & Artisan Guilds
✅ Ayyavole 500 (Ainutruvar) & Manigramam – Powerful regional & international trade guilds.
✅ Idangai Guilds – Artisan & merchant groups for large-scale production.
✅ Nagaram – Local guilds in commercial hubs like Kanchipuram & Mamallapuram.

📍 Trading Communities
✅ Gavundas – Landowning traders.
✅ Anjuvannam – Maritime traders (Jews, Christians, Muslims).
✅ Valanjiyar – Long-distance overseas traders.

📍 Foreign Trade
✅ Strong ties with China, Sumatra, Java, Arabia.
✅ Imported Arabian horses to strengthen cavalry.

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📍 Meaning
✅ Saguna Bhakti: Worship of a personal God with form — divine embodied in idols like Rama, Krishna, Shiva, Devi.
✅ Nirguna Bhakti: Worship of a formless, abstract, supreme consciousness — God beyond shape or attributes.

📍 Concept of God
✅ Saguna: God possesses attributes (compassion, love, strength) and manifests physically.
✅ Nirguna: God is Brahman — eternal, infinite, without qualities or limitations.

📍 Expression
✅ Saguna: Expressed through bhajans, kirtans, and hymns glorifying deities.
✅ Nirguna: Emphasizes philosophical poetry focused on unity, introspection, and spiritual realization.

📍 Prominent Saints
✅ Saguna Tradition:
• Tulsidas (Rama devotion – Ramcharitmanas)
• Mirabai (Krishna devotion)
• Surdas (Sursagar)
• Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Vaishnavism)
• Ramanuja (Vishishtadvaita philosophy)
• Sant Eknath, Tyagaraja (Carnatic Bhakti)

✅ Nirguna Tradition:
• Kabir (Unity of Nirguna Brahman)
• Guru Nanak (Sikhism – Oneness of God)
• Dadu Dayal, Namdev, Ravidas, Bulleh Shah (Sufi–Sant traditions)

📍 Major Literary Works
✅ Saguna Bhakti: Ramcharitmanas, Sursagar, Bhakti Songs of Mirabai, Hymns of Alvar & Nayanar
✅ Nirguna Bhakti: Bijak (Kabir), Guru Granth Sahib, Dohas of Kabir & Rahim, Abhangas of Namdev & Tukaram

📍 Core Essence
✅ Saguna Bhakti: Focuses on personal devotion, emotional surrender, and love for a chosen deity.
✅ Nirguna Bhakti: Focuses on inner realization, universal equality, and breaking barriers of caste and ritual.

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🔆 25 October 2025 – Current Affairs Round-Up

📍 RBI JUNCTION
✅ RBI Payment System Report (June 2025) — UPI leads in volume, RTGS in value; debit card use declines as India shifts toward a cashless economy.
✅ Digital payments formed 99.7% of total volume & 97.5% of total value in 2024.
✅ Platform Share: UPI – 85% volume, 9% value; RTGS – 69% value, 0.1% volume.
✅ RBI Draft Circular (Oct 2025) — introduces Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI) for all OTC derivative trades from April 1, 2026, improving global risk tracking.
✅ HaRBInger 2025 — RBI’s 4th Global Hackathon on theme “SecureBanking: Powered by Identity, Integrity & Inclusivity.”

📍 BANKING & FINANCIAL
✅ UPI introduces “Pay With Mutual Fund” — a global-first feature allowing instant UPI payments directly from liquid MF units.
✅ NPCI launches AI-powered “UPI Help” assistant for real-time complaint resolution, integrated with UDIR Framework.

📍 INTERNATIONAL
✅ Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2025 — 309M poor face triple climate hazards; 64.5% of world’s poor live in middle-income nations.
✅ China issues Yellow Alert for Typhoon Fengshen — heavy rains expected across Hainan, Taiwan & Vietnam.

📍 NATIONAL
✅ Panchayati Raj Ministry releases 2-min film “Sabki Yojana, Sabka Vikas” promoting citizen participation in local planning (till 6 Nov).
✅ PM-ABHIM strengthens India’s pandemic health infrastructure with ₹64,180 cr outlay (2021–26).
✅ ESTIC 2025 to be held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi (3–5 Nov) — focus on AI for inclusive growth.
✅ State of Global Air (SoGA) Report 2025: 2 million deaths in India 2023) linked to air pollution; 95% NCD-related.

📍 DEFENCE
✅ DAC approves ₹79,000 cr procurements — includes NAMIS Mk-II, Landing Platform Docks, Light Torpedoes, & ELINT Systems for tri-services.
✅ Indian Army signs ₹2,700 cr deal for 4.25 lakh indigenous carbines — Bharat Forge & AdPLR Systems as suppliers.
✅ Cochin Shipyard delivers first Anti-Submarine Warfare Craft “Mahe” to Indian Navy.

📍 MoUs & INITIATIVES
✅ IIM Calcutta & Satyajit Ray Film Institute sign first-ever academia–media collaboration for research & professional synergy.
✅ BEML (India) & Tesmec (Italy) partner to introduce surface miner equipment for eco-friendly mining.

📍 STATES
✅ Kerala launches “Sushakthi” Self-Help Groups for persons with disabilities — 40% members from PwD category.
✅ Sikkim celebrates ‘Kukur Tihar’, honouring dogs for loyalty.
✅ Telangana CM Revanth Reddy presents Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award to Salman Khurshid.

📍 OBITUARIES
✅ Daniel Naroditsky (US Chess Grandmaster) passes away at 29.

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📍 IMPORTANT DAYS
✅ International Snow Leopard Day – 23 Oct | Theme: “Protecting the Mountain Guardian.”
✅ World Polio Day – 24 Oct | Theme: “Together, We End Polio.”
✅ UN Day – 24 Oct.
✅ World Development Information Day – 24 Oct.
✅ ITBP Raising Day – 24 Oct | Motto: “Shaurya – Dridhata – Karm Nishtha.”
✅ National Cybersecurity Awareness Month – October 2025.

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