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Daily Current Affairs: 13 February 2025

Current affairs of 13 February 2025: IMEC Corridor: India-France Cooperation During Modi’s Paris Visit; Hyderabad Bird Atlas: Three-Year City Bird Mapping; TRAI Spam Rules: Tougher Penalties and Faster Complaints, and 6 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 9 topics

National Affairs

  1. TRAI Spam Rules: Tougher Penalties and Faster Complaints

Banking & Finance

  1. RBI Lifts Curbs on Kotak Mahindra Bank
  2. Income Tax Bill 2025: Tax Year and Simpler Law

Economy

  1. India’s Retail Inflation Eases to 4.31% in January 2025
  2. NCAER Proposes Independent Fiscal Councils for States

International Affairs

  1. IMEC Corridor: India-France Cooperation During Modi’s Paris Visit

Environment & Ecology

  1. Hyderabad Bird Atlas: Three-Year City Bird Mapping

Reports & Indexes

  1. Consumer Confidence Survey: Inflation Eases, Jobs Worry Rises
  2. NITI Aayog Fiscal Health Index: Five Sub-Indices and Flaws

National Affairs

Polity & Governance

1. TRAI Spam Rules: Tougher Penalties and Faster Complaints

  • TRAI amended the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2018 with stricter timelines and penalties.
  • Users can report spam up to 7 days after receipt; action against unregistered telemarketers must come within five days.
  • Message headers carry suffixes: P promotional, S service, T transactional, G government.
  • First violation bars outgoing service for 15 days; repeat violations mean one-year disconnection and blacklisting.
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Banking & Finance

Economy

International Affairs

Environment & Ecology

Reports & Indexes

Economy

9. NITI Aayog Fiscal Health Index: Five Sub-Indices and Flaws

  • The Fiscal Health Index (FHI) of NITI Aayog assesses states' finances through five equally weighted sub-indices.
  • Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand rank high despite shortages of teachers, health staff and medicines.
  • Critics say GSDP estimates are not comparable, and off-budget liabilities create hidden fiscal risk.
  • MoSPI provides comparable GSDP estimates for Finance Commissions, but not every year.
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