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News In Short – 24 September, 2025

Context

  • A professor from Haryana, was booked for allegedly stealing a replica of the Mohenjodaro ‘Dancing Girl’ bronze figurine from the National Museum in Delhi.

    • About

  • The “Dancing Girl” is a 4,500-year-old bronze statuette from the Indus Valley Civilization.
  • Discovery: Unearthed in 1926 at Mohenjo-daro (present-day Pakistan) by archaeologist Ernest Mackay.
  • Material and Technique: Made of bronze using the lost-wax casting technique, the statuette reflects the advanced metallurgical knowledge of the Harappans.
  • The statue is around 10.5 centimetres tall and  is adorned with a necklace and a large number of bangles stacked on her arms.

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    India to Submit Updated Carbon-reduction Targets by the Beginning of COP30

    Context

  • India will submit its updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) around the commencement of U.N. Climate Change Conference COP 30 in Brazil in November.

    • About NDCs

  • The NDCs are renewable-energy adoption goals set by a country as part of being a signatory to the Paris Agreement.
  • Countries must regulate their fossil fuel consumption to keep the globe from heating 2°C, and as far as possible, 1.5°C above that in pre-industrial times.
  • Countries are required to update their NDCs every five years. 

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    SST-Bharat Marks India’s Entry into the Global Fusion Race

    Context

  • Researchers at the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) in Gandhinagar have laid out a roadmap for India to achieve fusion power.

    • About

  • The researchers envisage developing India’s first fusion electricity generator, called the Steady-state Superconducting Tokamak-Bharat (SST-Bharat), with a power output 5x the input. 
  • It will be a fusion-fission hybrid reactor with 100 MW of the total 130 MW provided by fission. The estimated construction cost is Rs 25,000 crore.
  • By 2060, the team aims to commission a 250 MW demonstration reactor with an output-to-input ratio (Q) of 20.

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    Impact of U.S. Tariffs on Jewellery Sector 

    In News

  • India’s diamond and jewellery sector has been severely impacted by U.S. tariffs of 50% on cut and polished diamonds and 50-57% on studded and non-studded jewellery, disrupting decades of established trade. 

    • About

  • The U.S. is India’s largest diamond importer, with exports worth ₹46,000 crore in diamonds and ₹23,000 crore in studded gold jewellery in 2024-25.
  • The cut and polished diamond industry employs 8.2 lakh skilled workers. 

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    Visakhapatnam Declaration on E-Governance

    Context

  • The Visakhapatnam Declaration on E-Governance, adopted at the 28th National Conference on e-Governance held in Visakhapatnam.

    • Key Highlights

  • Co-hosted By: Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), and the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
  • Theme: “Viksit Bharat: Civil Service and Digital Transformation” with a vision of “Minimum Government, Maximum Governance.”
  • Digital Inclusion: Focus on extending digital governance to underserved and connectivity-challenged regions such as the North-East and Ladakh through expanding mandatory e-services under the NeSDA (National e-Governance Services Delivery Assessment) framework.
  • AI Platforms: Scaling AI-driven initiatives such as Digital India BHASHINI (multilingual communications), Digi Yatra (airport check-ins), and NADRES V2 (agricultural disaster risk reduction), with a focus on ethical, transparent AI use.

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    Seven Years of Ayushman Bharat

    Context

  • Recently, the Ayushman Bharat, the world’s largest government-funded health assurance scheme, completed its seven years.

    • About the Ayushman Bharat

  • It is a flagship health initiative, emerged from the National Health Policy 2017, and was launched in September 2018 from Ranchi, Jharkhand.

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    पारंपरिक चिकित्सा की बढ़ती प्रासंगिकता

    संदर्भ 

  • विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (WHO) की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार पारंपरिक चिकित्सा 88% सदस्य देशों — 194 में से 170 देशों — में प्रचलित है।

    • परिचय 

  • बढ़ती स्वीकार्यता: विश्लेषकों का अनुमान है कि वैश्विक पारंपरिक चिकित्सा बाजार 2025 तक $583 बिलियन तक पहुंच जाएगा, जिसकी वार्षिक वृद्धि दर 10%–20% के बीच होगी।   
  • देशवार बाजार: चीन की पारंपरिक चीनी चिकित्सा का मूल्य $122.4 बिलियन, ऑस्ट्रेलिया की हर्बल चिकित्सा उद्योग का मूल्य $3.97 बिलियन, तथा भारत के आयुर्वेद, योग एवं प्राकृतिक चिकित्सा, यूनानी, सिद्ध और होम्योपैथी (आयुष) क्षेत्र का मूल्य $43.4 बिलियन आंका गया है।   

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    संक्षिप्त समाचार 24-09-2025

    संदर्भ 

  • हरियाणा के एक प्रोफेसर पर दिल्ली स्थित राष्ट्रीय संग्रहालय से मोहनजोदड़ो की ‘नृत्य करती युवती’ कांस्य प्रतिमा की प्रतिकृति चुराने के आरोप में मामला दर्ज किया गया है।

    • परिचय 

  •  “नृत्य करती युवती” सिंधु घाटी सभ्यता की 4,500 वर्ष पुरानी कांस्य मूर्ति है।
  • खोज: यह प्रतिमा 1926 में मोहनजोदड़ो (वर्तमान पाकिस्तान) में पुरातत्वविद अर्नेस्ट मैके द्वारा खोजी गई थी।

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