- Recently, the Ayushman Bharat, the world’s largest government-funded health assurance scheme, completed its seven years.
- It is a flagship health initiative, emerged from the National Health Policy 2017, and was launched in September 2018 from Ranchi, Jharkhand. Read More
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Daily Current Affairs – 24 September, 2025
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- The Visakhapatnam Declaration on E-Governance, adopted at the 28th National Conference on e-Governance held in Visakhapatnam.
- 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. Read More
Visakhapatnam Declaration on E-Governance
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- 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.
- 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. Read More
Impact of U.S. Tariffs on Jewellery Sector
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- Researchers at the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) in Gandhinagar have laid out a roadmap for India to achieve fusion power.
- 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. Read More
SST-Bharat Marks India’s Entry into the Global Fusion Race
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- India will submit its updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) around the commencement of U.N. Climate Change Conference COP 30 in Brazil in November.
- 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. Read More
India to Submit Updated Carbon-reduction Targets by the Beginning of COP30
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- A professor from Haryana, was booked for allegedly stealing a replica of the Mohenjodaro ‘Dancing Girl’ bronze figurine from the National Museum in Delhi.
- 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. Read More
