The Union Health Ministry recently said that the rate of institutional deliveries in the country has increased to 89%, which led to a significant reduction in the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR).
What is Maternal Mortality?
Maternal death is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes.
Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) is the number of maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births.
Maternal Mortality Rate: This is calculated as maternal deaths to women in the ages 15-49 per lakh of women in that age group, reported under Sample Registration System (SRS).
Recently, the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) has launched a Comprehensive Internship Policy designed to provide structured, hands-on experience to aspiring sports professionals, aligning with the broader goals of the National Sports Policy and the Khelo Bharat Niti 2025.
Policy Overview
Scope and Scale of the Internship Programme: 452 internships will be offered annually across Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) and its autonomous bodies, including:
Industrial parks have emerged as a core instrument of India’s industrial and innovation strategy, enabling faster manufacturing growth, higher investment, job creation and sustainable development.
What is an Industrial Park?
An industrial park is a planned and demarcated area developed specifically for industrial use, with common facilities like power, water, internal roads, waste management, testing labs, logistics services and security.
These parks are usually managed by a dedicated authority or developer responsible for allotment of plots, maintenance of infrastructure, regulatory compliances and long‑term development of the industrial ecosystem.
The agriculture sector in India holds untapped potential to drive green energy revolution with over half of India’s population dependent on farming and rural livelihoods.
PM Modi paid tributes to former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna Chaudhary Charan Singh on his birth anniversary.
About
Early life: Charan Singh was born on 23 December 1902 at Noorpur in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh in a peasant family.
Graduation: He graduated in science in 1923, and did his post-graduation from Agra University in 1925. Also trained in law, he set up practice at Ghaziabad.
He shifted to Meerut in 1929 and later joined the Congress.
The rapid expansion of satellite launches and commercial space activity has intensified the threat posed by Micrometeoroids and Orbital Debris (MMOD), raising serious concerns for astronaut safety and long-term sustainability of Earth’s orbits.
What is Micrometeoroids and Orbital Debris (MMOD)?
MMOD refers to the natural and human-made particles moving at very high speeds in Earth’s orbital environment that pose a collision risk to spacecraft and astronauts.
Micrometeoroids: Naturally occurring, extremely small particles originating mainly from asteroid belt collisions and comets, travelling at velocities of 11–72 km/s.
Orbital Debris: Human-made objects such as defunct satellites, rocket fragments and collision remnants, typically moving at around 10 km/s.
With the scrapping of the electoral bonds scheme, companies have again turned to electoral trusts as a preferred source of political donations for companies in 2024-25.
Electoral Trust Scheme
The electoral trust scheme was introduced by the government in 2013.
Electoral trusts are one of the funding channels for political parties.
They became a preferred source of political donation for companies in 2024-25 after the SC scrapped the electoral bonds scheme in 2024.
NITI Aayog released a policy report laying out a long-term roadmap to internationalise India’s higher education system, with the stated goal of turning the country into a global hub for education and research by 2047.
About
Internationalisation refers to the systematic integration of global and intercultural dimensions into higher education through:
Cross-border student and faculty mobility
International collaborations in teaching and research
