🔆 Quantum-Based True Random Numbers

✅ Developed by: Raman Research Institute (RRI)
✅ Need: Random numbers secure encryption, authentication & cybersecurity.
✅ Issue: Current systems use pseudorandom (algorithm-based) numbers — predictable by quantum computers.
✅ Innovation: Uses natural quantum processes (e.g., radioactivity) to create truly random, unpredictable numbers, enhancing digital security.

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🔆 Women in India’s Workforce – Key Facts & Government Efforts (2025)

📍 Current Status
✅ Female Labour Force Participation (FLFP): ~37% (World Bank, 2025) – steady rise from 23% in 2017.
✅ Urban Women: 26% participation; Rural Women: over 41%.
✅ Sectors: Majority in agriculture, informal & care sectors; rising entry into services & startups.
✅ Self-employment: Women constitute over 20% of India’s entrepreneurs (Startup India data).

📍 Key Government Initiatives
✅ Mission Shakti (MoWCD): Umbrella programme combining Sambal (safety) & Samarthya (empowerment).
✅ One-Stop Centres: Support for violence-affected women across all districts.
✅ Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY): ~70% women beneficiaries, fostering micro-enterprise growth.
✅ Startup India “Prabhaav” platform: Tracks impact of women-led startups.
✅ Skill Development & Digital Literacy: Focus on Aspirational Districts & rural skilling for women’s employability.

📍 Challenges
❌ Persistent gender pay gap & under-representation in formal jobs.
❌ Care burden and lack of safe workplaces limit participation.
❌ Need for formalisation, childcare infrastructure & flexible work policies.

📍 Way Forward
✅ Boost formal job creation & credit access.
✅ Strengthen Mission Shakti convergence at grassroots.
✅ Promote STEM & leadership roles for women.
✅ Institutionalise gender budgeting across ministries.

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🔆 Green Hydrogen Hubs – MNRE

✅ Recognised Ports:
• Deendayal (Gujarat)
• V.O. Chidambaranar (Tamil Nadu)
• Paradip (Odisha)

✅ Purpose: Boost clean fuel innovation, green investments & industrial participation.

📍 About NGHM (National Green Hydrogen Mission):
✅ Launch: Jan 2023
✅ Goal: Make India a Global Hub for Green Hydrogen production, use & export.
✅ Target: 5 MMT Green Hydrogen/year by 2030

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🔆 Govt Initiatives to Strengthen Microfinance

✅ SHG–Bank Linkage: Expands SHG credit access; shifts focus to income-generating activities.
✅ PM MUDRA Yojana: Provides collateral-free micro loans to small businesses.
✅ NABARD Refinance: Offers long-term funds to MFIs to boost lending capacity.

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🔆 Temple Discoveries Highlight Chalukya Expansion
📍 Location – Mudimanikyam, Nalgonda district, Telangana

📍 About the Discovery
✅ Archaeologists from Public Research Institute of History, Archaeology, and Heritage (PRIHAH) unearthed two ancient temples and a rare inscription from the Badami Chalukyan period.

📍 Key Highlights
✅ Temples: Dated between 543–750 AD, during the Badami Chalukya rule.
• Blend of Badami Chalukyan and Kadamba Nagara styles under Rekha Nagara format.
• One temple revealed an apanavattam (base of a Shiva lingam).
• Another yielded a Vishnu idol.

✅ Inscription: Mentions ‘Gandaloranru’, dated to the 8th–9th century AD.

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🔆 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

📍 Kheda Satyagraha (1918)
✅ Triggered by crop failure and drought in Kheda, Gujarat.
✅ Led by Sardar Patel with Gandhi’s support, demanding remission of land tax.
✅ Outcome – Tax suspended, rates reduced, and confiscated property returned.

📍 Bardoli Satyagraha (1928)
✅ Protest against land revenue hike in Gujarat.
✅ Led by Patel; women bestowed on him the title “Sardar.”
✅ Ended with government conceding to peasants’ demands.

📍 Role in Constituent Assembly
✅ Chairman:
• Committee on Fundamental Rights & Minorities
• Provincial Constitution Committee
✅ Presided over Karachi Session (1931) that adopted Fundamental Rights & Economic Policy.

📍 Statue of Unity
✅ 182 m statue at Kevadia (Ekta Nagar), facing Sardar Sarovar Dam — world’s tallest statue.

📍 National Unity Day (31 October)
✅ Celebrated to honour Sardar Patel’s birth anniversary and his role in integrating princely states into the Indian Union.

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🔆 Rogue Planet

✅ Definition: A planetary body ejected from its original system, drifting freely in interstellar space without orbiting a star.
✅ Origin: Usually expelled during the early chaotic stages of planetary system formation or later due to orbital instabilities.
✅ Orbit: No parent star — moves independently through space.
✅ Significance: Offers insights into planet formation, system dynamics, and interstellar matter interactions.

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🔆 India Hosts 8th Session of Codex Committee on Spices & Culinary Herbs (CCSCH-8)

📍 Venue: Guwahati | Date: 17 Oct 2025 | Source: PIB Delhi

✅ Key Outcome: Finalized Codex standards for large cardamom, vanilla, and coriander — boosting global spice quality and trade benchmarks.
✅ Organised by: Spices Board India under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry; operates within the Codex Alimentarius Commission (FAO & WHO).
✅ Significance:
• Ensures uniform global benchmarks for spice quality and safety.
• Enhances India’s export competitiveness as a leading producer of cardamom and coriander.
• Strengthens India’s role as a trusted partner in the global spice trade.
✅ Participation: Delegates from 30 countries, emphasizing science-based, harmonized, and fair-trade standards.

📍 Mains Question:
How does India’s leadership in Codex standard-setting strengthen its position in global agri-trade and promote food safety diplomacy?

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🔆 Western Chalukya Dynasty (973–1189 AD)

📍 Overview
✅ Capital: Manyakheta → shifted to Kalyani (Basavakalyan)
✅ Founder: Tailapa II (defeated Rashtrakuta ruler Kakka II)
✅ Extent: Western Deccan – parts of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana
✅ Sources: Kannada works (Gada Yuddha, Vikramankadeva Charita), coins, inscriptions

📍 Important Rulers
✅ Tailapa II (975–997 AD): Defeated Paramara King Munja; patronized poet Ranna
✅ Satyashraya (997–1008 AD): Fought Eastern Chalukyas & Cholas; defeated by Rajendra Chola I
✅ Someshwara I (1042–1068 AD): Shifted capital to Kalyani; won Battle of Koppam (1054 AD)
✅ Vikramaditya VI (1076–1126 AD): Introduced Chalukya-Vikrama Era, defeated Cholas & Hoysalas

📍 Administration
✅ Decentralized system: Mandala → Nadu → Kampana → Bada
✅ Officials: Maha Pradhan, Sandhivigrahika, Dandanayaka
✅ Women managed Nadus & Kampanas

📍 Art & Architecture
✅ Style: Gadag / Vesara Style – blend of Nagara & Dravidian
✅ Temples:
• Kashivishweshwara Temple, Lakkundi
• Dodda Basappa Temple, Dambal
• Mahadeva Temple, Itagi – “Emperor among Temples”
• Trikuteshwara Temple, Gadag

📍 Literature
✅ Sanskrit: Vikramankadeva Charita – Bilhana
✅ Kannada: Gada Yuddha, Chandombudhi, Rannakanda

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🔆 Suicide in India – Key Highlights (NCRB Report)

📍 Trends & Statistics
✅ Overall Increase: Reported suicides rose by 0.3% in 2023 (vs 2022), though rate declined by 0.8%.
✅ Highest Suicide Rate: Andaman & Nicobar Islands > Sikkim > Kerala.
✅ High Suicide States (by share): Maharashtra > Tamil Nadu > Madhya Pradesh > Karnataka > West Bengal.
✅ Urban vs Rural: Cities record higher suicide rates than the national average.
✅ Gender Ratio: Male : Female = 72.8 : 27.2.

📍 Farmer Suicides
✅ 10,786 deaths (6.3% of total suicides).
✅ Zero reported in: West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa.

📍 Government Initiatives
✅ National Suicide Prevention Strategy (2022): Reduce suicides by 10% by 2030.
✅ Tele-MANAS: 24×7 free tele-mental health helpline.
✅ National Mental Health Programme (NMHP): Decentralized mental healthcare.
✅ Manodarpan (MoE): Psychosocial support for students, teachers & families.

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🔆 Mud Volcano Eruption in Baratang Island (Andaman & Nicobar Islands)

📍 Recent Event
✅ India’s only active mud volcano in Baratang Island has erupted after 20 years, releasing mud, gases, and water.

📍 About Mud Volcanoes
✅ Definition: Natural vents that expel a mix of mud, water, and gases (mainly methane, sometimes CO₂ or nitrogen) — not molten lava.
✅ Formation Areas: Common in natural gas–rich regions.
✅ Cause of Eruption: Triggered by tectonic pressure or hydrocarbon gas buildup beneath the surface.
✅ Structure: Forms cone-like mounds, mimicking true volcanic shapes.

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