Daily Current Affairs: 9 & 10 November 2025

Current affairs of 9 & 10 November 2025: India Joins Tropical Forest Forever Facility as Observer; 3I/ATLAS: Interstellar Object Appears Without a Tail; Malabar 2025 at Guam: INS Sahyadri Joins Quad Navies, and 10 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 13 topics

National Affairs

Tribunals Reforms Act 2021: Supreme Court Pulls Up Centre

Government Schemes

PM Internship Scheme (PMIS): Features and Eligibility

Banking & Finance

Digital Gold Warning: SEBI Flags Unregulated E-Gold
CASA Ratio Decline in Indian Banks: Causes and Impact

Economy

Open Market Operations: How RBI Uses OMO to Manage Liquidity
Demonetisation After Nine Years: Cash and GDP Ratio

International Affairs

BIMReN Conference Kochi: BIMSTEC Marine Research Network

Agriculture & Rural

Millet Seeds: Chouhan Seeks Better Varieties on Mandia Divas
FAIFA Objects to Farmers’ Exclusion From WHO Tobacco Treaty COP11

Science & Technology

3I/ATLAS: Interstellar Object Appears Without a Tail

Environment & Ecology

India Joins Tropical Forest Forever Facility as Observer
Khangchendzonga National Park Gets IUCN ‘Good’ Rating

Defence & Security

Malabar 2025 at Guam: INS Sahyadri Joins Quad Navies

National Affairs

Polity & Governance

1. Tribunals Reforms Act 2021: Supreme Court Pulls Up Centre

The Supreme Court criticised repeated Union adjournment requests in the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021 case.
The Act was enacted on 13 August 2021, replacing an ordinance.
Several tribunals were abolished and their work moved to High Courts.

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Government Schemes

Economy

2. PM Internship Scheme (PMIS): Features and Eligibility

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs is refining the PM Internship Scheme for youth appeal.
PMIS targets 1 crore internships in five years, each lasting 12 months in top 500 firms.
Stipend: ₹5,000 a month plus a ₹6,000 one-time grant; age 21-24.

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Banking & Finance

Economy

3. Digital Gold Warning: SEBI Flags Unregulated E-Gold

SEBI issued a public caution on digital gold or e-gold products sold online as gold prices neared record highs.
Digital gold is not regulated by SEBI or RBI and offers no SEBI investor-protection mechanisms.
SEBI does regulate gold ETFs, exchange-traded gold commodity derivatives and Electronic Gold Receipts (EGRs).
Purchases can start at ₹1 and are backed by 99.9% pure, 24K gold held in insured vaults.

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Economy

4. CASA Ratio Decline in Indian Banks: Causes and Impact

CASA = current plus savings deposits, the cheapest funds for banks; credit growth now outpaces deposit growth.
Mutual fund AUM rose from 12% to 32% of bank deposits over a decade.
RBI cut the policy rate by 100 bps to 5.5% since February 2025, hurting margins.

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Economy

5. Open Market Operations: How RBI Uses OMO to Manage Liquidity

OMOs are RBI purchases or sales of G-secs to manage liquidity.
Purchase raises liquidity and lowers rates; sale does the reverse.
RBI advised states to reschedule borrowings; an OMO calendar was expected in the 5 December policy.

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Economy

6. Demonetisation After Nine Years: Cash and GDP Ratio

Demonetisation was announced on 8 November 2016; old ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes lost tender status next day.
Currency with Public fell from ₹17.97 lakh crore to ₹7.8 lakh crore between November 2016 and January 2017.
India's currency-to-GDP ratio was 11.11% in October 2025.

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International Affairs

Science & Technology

7. BIMReN Conference Kochi: BIMSTEC Marine Research Network

Kochi hosted the first BIMSTEC-India Marine Research Network (BIMReN) conference, 4-6 November 2025.
BIMReN is a biennial platform for marine research, fisheries and blue economy cooperation.
India's PM announced it in 2022 at Colombo; MEA launched it in 2024.

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Agriculture & Rural

Agriculture & Rural Development

8. Millet Seeds: Chouhan Seeks Better Varieties on Mandia Divas

Chouhan urged scientists to develop better millet seeds to make the crop more profitable.
Odisha raised millet yield from 6 to 12 quintals per hectare and buys millets at MSP.
GM crops carry foreign genes; GE crops edit a plant's own genes.

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Agriculture & Rural Development

9. FAIFA Objects to Farmers’ Exclusion From WHO Tobacco Treaty COP11

FAIFA, representing commercial-crop farmers, protested its exclusion from the WHO tobacco treaty's COP11.
The FCTC Secretariat reportedly said farmer interests were not aligned with treaty aims.
Over 36 million people depend on India's tobacco value chain.

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Science & Technology

10. 3I/ATLAS: Interstellar Object Appears Without a Tail

3I/ATLAS is the third known interstellar object seen crossing the solar system, found on 1 July 2025.
Images from Spain's R. Naves Observatory on 5 November 2025 showed no tail.
Comets are ice, dust and rock bodies, nicknamed dirty snowballs.

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Environment & Ecology

11. India Joins Tropical Forest Forever Facility as Observer

India will join the Tropical Forest Forever Facility as an observer.
TFFF pays tropical forest countries annually for retaining forest cover.
India was expected to unveil updated NDCs on cutting fossil emissions by 2035.

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Environment & Ecology

12. Khangchendzonga National Park Gets IUCN ‘Good’ Rating

IUCN rated Khangchendzonga National Park (Sikkim) 'Good' in its World Heritage Outlook 2025.
It was India's only natural site with a positive status that year.
The park is UNESCO-listed since 2016 and is India's first mixed site.

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Defence & Security

International Relations

13. Malabar 2025 at Guam: INS Sahyadri Joins Quad Navies

The 29th Malabar exercise ran near Guam from 10 to 18 November 2025 with India, US, Japan and Australia.
Malabar started in 1992 as an India-US exercise and now includes all Quad members.
India sent the guided-missile stealth frigate INS Sahyadri.

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Daily Current Affairs: 9 & 10 November 2025

In this issue: 13 topics

National Affairs

1. Tribunals Reforms Act 2021: Supreme Court Pulls Up Centre

Government Schemes

2. PM Internship Scheme (PMIS): Features and Eligibility

Banking & Finance

3. Digital Gold Warning: SEBI Flags Unregulated E-Gold

4. CASA Ratio Decline in Indian Banks: Causes and Impact

Economy

5. Open Market Operations: How RBI Uses OMO to Manage Liquidity

6. Demonetisation After Nine Years: Cash and GDP Ratio

International Affairs

7. BIMReN Conference Kochi: BIMSTEC Marine Research Network

Agriculture & Rural

8. Millet Seeds: Chouhan Seeks Better Varieties on Mandia Divas

9. FAIFA Objects to Farmers’ Exclusion From WHO Tobacco Treaty COP11

Science & Technology

10. 3I/ATLAS: Interstellar Object Appears Without a Tail

Environment & Ecology

11. India Joins Tropical Forest Forever Facility as Observer

12. Khangchendzonga National Park Gets IUCN ‘Good’ Rating

Defence & Security

13. Malabar 2025 at Guam: INS Sahyadri Joins Quad Navies

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