- UAE’s Crown Prince is on an official visit to India.
- Defence Cooperation: Strengthened defence collaboration and increased manufacturing partnership.
- Focus on scaling up defence cooperation to match trade and business progress. Read More
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Daily Current Affairs – 9 April, 2025
PDF - India and Israel signed a Comprehensive Agriculture Agreement to boost bilateral cooperation in agriculture, food security, and the modernization of farming practices.
- The agreement explicitly mentions areas like soil and water management, horticultural and agricultural production, post-harvest and processing technology, agriculture mechanisation, animal husbandry, and research and development.
- Centres of Excellence Recognition: India praises the 43 Centres of Excellence and highlights their pivotal role in the success of the agricultural projects. Read More
India-Israel Sign Agreements on Agricultural Cooperation
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- Recently, the Department of Financial Services (DFS) has notified amalgamation of 26 Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) on the principles of ‘One State One RRB’.
- Background: These were established in 1975, following the recommendations of the Narasimham Working Group and the enactment of the Regional Rural Banks Act in 1976.
- It was aimed to provide financial services to rural areas, particularly to small and marginal farmers. Read More
One State One RRB: Amalgamation of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs)
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- The Union Home Minister announced two models of an electronic surveillance system along the Jammu Kashmir border.
- Technology is expected to be deployed along the entire India-Pakistan border in the next four years.
- The Union Home Minister acknowledged that while terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir is reduced, it is not fully eliminated. Read More
Electronic Surveillance System in JK Border
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- The Technology and Innovation Report 2025 released by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
- It surveys the complex artificial intelligence landscape, aiming to help decision makers design science, technology and innovation policies that foster inclusive technological progress
- It analyses the requirements and policies needed at all stages, from development to adoption, to foster inclusive technological progress for sustainable development. Read More
Technology and Innovation Report 2025
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Technology and Innovation Report
- Japan's West Japan Railway Company unveiled the world’s first 3D-printed train station in Arida City, Wakayama Prefecture. It was named Hatsushima Station and the structure was built in under six hours.
- 3D Printing, also known as Additive Manufacturing (AM), is a process of creating three-dimensional objects from a digital file, by adding material layer by layer.
- Unlike traditional subtractive manufacturing (which involves cutting away material), 3D printing builds up the product from scratch. Read More
3D Printing
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What is 3D Printing?
- A United States-based bioscience company claimed that it had revived an extinct species of animal, the dire wolf.
- The Dire wolf was one of the most formidable predators of the late Pleistocene epoch.
- Geographic Range: It lived across North America — from southern Canada to the United States, before they went extinct about 13,000 years ago. Read More
De-Extinction of Dire Wolf
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The Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus)
- Lodhi Garden, located in the heart of New Delhi, marks 89 years of its establishment as a public garden.
- Lodhi Garden traces its origins back to the 14th and 15th centuries and was initially known as Bagh-e-Jud.
- The garden’s roots are entwined with the Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya Dargah and later became a burial site during the Sayyid and Lodi dynasties, showcasing Indo-Islamic architecture. Read More
