🔆 Kutiyattam (Sanskrit Theatre)

📍 Core Facts
✅ Inscribed on UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List (2008)
✅ One of India’s oldest living theatrical traditions — 2000+ years old
✅ Origin: Kerala

📍 Cultural Significance
✅ Blends Sanskrit classicism with Kerala’s local traditions
✅ Recognized as an oral heritage

📍 Performance Features
✅ Staged in Kuttampalams — temple theatres inside Hindu temples
✅ Uses Neta Abhinaya (eye expressions)
✅ Uses Hasta Abhinaya (gesture language)

📍 Artistic Essence
✅ Focuses on inner thoughts & emotions of the main character
✅ Actors employ precise breathing, subtle facial muscle control, and detailed elaboration of scenes

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🔆 National Milk Day — November 26

📍 About Dr. Verghese Kurien (1921–2012)

✅ Born in 1921 in Kozhikode (Kerala)
✅ Architect of India’s White Revolution (Operation Flood) — made India the largest milk producer
✅ Founder Chairman of NDDB, GCMMF, and IRMA (Anand)
✅ Revolutionized edible oil sector with ‘Dhara’ (1979)
✅ Awards: Ramon Magsaysay (1963), World Food Prize (1989), Padma Vibhushan (1999)

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 29 NOVEMBER 2025

📍 INTERNATIONAL
✅ Jakarta becomes world’s most populous city (42M), overtakes Tokyo — UN WUP 2025.
✅ WHO grants PQ status to Biological E’s 14-valent pneumococcal vaccine (Pneubevax-14).
✅ Heatwave kills ~70% corals at UNESCO Ningaloo Reef (Australia).
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✅ France introduces 10-month voluntary military scheme.
✅ US–Russia crew launches to ISS aboard Soyuz MS-28 for 8-month mission.

📍 NATIONAL AFFAIRS
✅ India targets $1/kg green hydrogen by 2030 → potential $1.4T market by 2047.
✅ Nayi Chetna 4.0 launched to promote gender equality & safety (NRLM).
✅ Skill India Centre inaugurated in Baghpat, UP.
✅ India to host 60th DGP–IGP Conference in Nava Raipur (28–30 Nov).
✅ India becomes ‘Major Power’ in Asia Power Index 2025 (Score 40 → Rank 3 in capability).
✅ Paras Defence + DRDO ToT for Driver Night Sight (T-90 tanks).
✅ IIT-Madras signs MoU for startup development (18 startups selected).

📍 STATES
✅ Punjab launches ‘Easy Registry’ – district-wide property registration at any Sub-Registrar office.
✅ AP to declare Prabhala Teertham as State Festival (400-year chariot tradition).

📍 SCHEMES
✅ National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) – 3.09 crore beneficiaries across IGNOAPS, IGNWPS, IGNDPS, NFBS, Annapurna.

📍 IMPORTANT DAY
✅ World Sustainable Transport Day – 26 November.

📍 OBITUARY
✅ Kumari Kamala, renowned Bharatanatyam legend, passes away.

📍 AWARDS
✅ 44th India International Trade Fair (IITF) Awards:
• Rajasthan – Partner State (Gold)
• Jharkhand – Focus State
• Odisha – Best State/UT
• Meghalaya – Best Thematic
• Haryana – Swachh Pavilion
• Ministry of Defence – Best Ministry
• AAI – Best PSU
• Tea Board India – Commodity Board

📍 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
✅ US–Russian crew launches to ISS via Soyuz MS-28 from Baikonur.

📍 SPORTS
✅ 25th Summer Deaflympics 2025 (Tokyo): India wins 20 medals (9G, 7S, 4B) – best ever.
• Diksha Dagar defends golf gold
• Shooting: 16 medals

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⏳231 days left CAPF AC 19 July
⏳84 days CGPSC prelims 22 February

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🔆 Revised Seismic Zonation Map (BIS 2025)

📍 What’s New?
✅ India updates Earthquake Design Code (BIS 2025) with a revised Seismic Zonation Map
✅ Based on faults, max probable events, tectonics, lithology, attenuation etc.

📍 Key Changes in Zonation
✅ Earlier: 4 zones — II, III, IV, V
✅ Now: New highest-risk Zone VI created
• Entire Himalayan arc placed in Zone VI (earlier split between IV & V)
✅ Boundary towns between zones now automatically included in the higher-risk zone
✅ Mapping now focuses on geology, not administrative borders

🔆 India’s Earthquake Vulnerability
✅ 61% of land in moderate–high hazard zones (earlier 59%)
✅ 75% of population now lives in seismically active regions
✅ Implications:
• Push for retrofitting in high-risk areas
• Restrict expansion on soft sediments/near active faults
• Uniform building standards in Himalayan states

🔆 Government Strategies
📍 NDMA & SDMAs
✅ NDMA frames policies, SDMAs implement state-level disaster plans

📍 National Seismological Network
✅ Monitors quakes
✅ Supports development of early warning systems

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🔆 Annual Groundwater Quality Report 2025

📍 Overall Quality
✅ 71.7% of India’s groundwater meets BIS standards
✅ 28.3% samples exceed limits for one or more parameters

📍 Key Contaminants
✅ Nitrate = most widespread (≈ 20% samples exceed WHO/BIS 45 mg/L)
• Linked to fertilizers, sewage, animal waste

✅ Uranium above 30 ppb:
• 6.71% (pre-monsoon)
• 7.91% (post-monsoon)
• Highest: Punjab, then Haryana, Delhi

✅ Salinity (EC high)
• Major in Rajasthan, Delhi
• Exceeds limits in 7.23% samples

✅ Fluoride
• 8.05% samples exceed limit
• Mainly geogenic; highest in Rajasthan

✅ Lead
• Highest contamination: Delhi
• Health impacts: cognitive damage, ↑ BP, kidney harm, probable carcinogen

📍 Irrigation Suitability
✅ 94.30% samples fall in excellent category

📍 Other Geogenic Issues
✅ Arsenic (Ganga & Brahmaputra basins)
✅ Manganese (Assam, Karnataka, Odisha, UP, WB)

🔆 Central Ground Water Board (CGWB)
📍 Origin: Began in 1970, renamed from Exploratory Tube Wells Organization
📍 Ministry: Ministry of Jal Shakti
📍 Role: Groundwater management, exploration, monitoring, regulation
📍 Also functions as CGWA under Environment Protection Act, 1986

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🔆 Governor Generals & Viceroys

✅ Hastings (1773–85): Regulating Act, SC at Calcutta, Pitts Act, Asiatic Society, 1st Maratha War, Rohilla War, 2nd Mysore War.

✅ Cornwallis (1786–93): Permanent Settlement, Cornwallis Code, 3rd Mysore War.

✅ Wellesley (1798–1805): Subsidiary Alliance, 4th Mysore War, 2nd Maratha War.

✅ Hastings (1813–23): 3rd Maratha War, Anglo-Nepal War, suppresses Pindaris.

✅ Amherst (1823–28): 1st Burmese War, Bharatpur capture.

✅ Bentinck (1828–35): Abolished Sati, English Education, Thugi suppression.

✅ Dalhousie (1848–56): Railways, Telegraph, Post Office, Wood’s Despatch, Widow Remarriage, annexes Punjab & Lower Burma.

✅ Canning (1856–62): 1857 Revolt, GOI Act 1858, ASI, 3 Universities.

✅ Lytton (1876–80): Vernacular Press Act, Arms Act, Delhi Durbar, Famine.

✅ Ripon (1880–84): Local Self-Govt, Factory Act, Ilbert Bill.

✅ Dufferin (1885): INC founded.

✅ Curzon (1899–1905): Partition of Bengal, Universities Act, Ancient Monuments Act.

✅ Minto II (1905–10): Morley–Minto Reforms – Separate Electorates.

✅ Hardinge II (1910–16): Capital to Delhi, Home Rule begins.

✅ Chelmsford (1916–21): Montford Reforms, Jallianwala, NCM.

✅ Irwin (1926–31): Simon Commission, Lahore 1929, Dandi March, Gandhi–Irwin Pact.

✅ Willingdon (1931–36): Communal Award, Poona Pact, GOI Act 1935, RBI.

✅ Linlithgow (1936–44): Quit India, Bengal Famine.

✅ Wavell (1944–47): INA Trials, Cabinet Mission.

✅ Mountbatten (1947–48): June 3 Plan, Partition, 1st GG of India.


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🔆 Nayi Chetna 4.0

📍 About the Campaign
✅ Fourth edition of a month-long national campaign against gender-based violence
✅ Organised by DAY–NRLM (Ministry of Rural Development)
✅ Duration: 25 Nov – 23 Dec 2025 across all States/UTs
✅ Led by Self-Help Group (SHG) women → strong grassroots movement
✅ Supported by 11 Union ministries

📍 Focus Areas
✅ Safe mobility for women
✅ Recognising women’s economic contribution
✅ Promoting shared responsibility for unpaid care/domestic work
✅ Improving access to credit, skills, markets
✅ Strengthening gender-responsive policies & budgets

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🔆 COP30

📍 Basics
✅ Belém, Brazil (Amazon), Nov 2025
✅ Known as “Amazon COP”
✅ Major shift → Implementation > Pledges
✅ Key outcomes → Belém Package + Global Mutirão Agreement

📍 Belém Package (29 Decisions)
✅ Climate Finance
✅ GGA Implementation
✅ Loss & Damage
✅ Just Transition (BAM)
✅ Forests (TFFF)
✅ Health + Gender
✅ Oceans + SLCPs
✅ Trade + Ethics

📍 Global Mutirão Agreement
✅ Cooperation-first approach
✅ Article 9.1 = Legal finance obligation for developed nations
✅ Mutirão Platform → bridges pledge–delivery gap

📍 Climate Finance
✅ 2-year Work Programme → who pays / how much / when
✅ Push towards a unified global definition of climate finance

📍 Adaptation
✅ Adaptation finance ×3 by 2035
✅ Part of the $1.3T/year climate action mobilisation goal
✅ GGA Baku Roadmap + ~60 voluntary indicators

📍 Energy & Implementation
✅ Belém 4× Pledge → sustainable fuels ×4 by 2035
✅ Global Implementation Accelerator + Tracker
✅ Belem Mission to 1.5°C → monitors action gap

📍 Forests
✅ TFFF: $125B blended finance model
✅ Performance-linked payments (satellite verified)
✅ Priority to Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities (IPLCs)

📍 Loss & Damage
✅ Fund further operationalised
✅ Faster access for SIDS / LDCs
❗ Overall fund size still inadequate

📍 Health & Gender
✅ Belém Health Action Plan → climate-resilient health systems
✅ Belém Gender Action Plan → gender-responsive governance
✅ People-Centred Declaration → hunger, poverty, social protection.

📍 Oceans & Super Pollutant
✅ Blue NDC Challenge → strong ocean actions in NDCs
✅ SLCP Accelerator → cuts methane, black carbon, HFCs

📍 Fertilisers
✅ 5% GHG reduction target
✅ Higher NUE, soil health focus
⇒ Aligns with India’s SHC, neem-urea, PM-PRANAM

📍 Trade / CBAM
❗ Developing nations → CBAM = reverse climate finance
❗ Violates CBDR-RC; seen as green protectionism

📍 India’s Stand
✅ Climate finance = legal duty, not charity
✅ Demands clear definition + $1.3T/year mobilisation
✅ Strong on Equity + CBDR-RC
❗ Opposes CBAM
✅ Equal priority to Adaptation & Mitigation

📍 Key Shortcomings
❗ No clear fossil-fuel phase-out roadmap
❗ Finance burden-sharing still vague
❗ Implementation gap persists despite new platforms

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