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Daily Current Affairs: 11 February 2025

Current affairs of 11 February 2025: Trump’s Gaza Relocation Plan and West Asia Impact; India-US Trade Talks: Duty Cuts on Almonds and Pecans Weighed; UK Defence Partnership India (DPI) Announced at Aero India, and 14 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 17 topics

National Affairs

  1. Health Budget 2025-26: Allocation, Share of GDP and Gaps
  2. Criminal Cases Against MPs: Report Before Supreme Court

Banking & Finance

  1. RBI Gold Auction Norms for Banks and NBFCs
  2. Non-Deliverable Forwards (NDF): Meaning and Uses

Economy

  1. Disinvestment in Budget 2025-26: Miscellaneous Capital Receipts

International Affairs

  1. Trump’s Gaza Relocation Plan and West Asia Impact
  2. India-US Trade Talks: Tariff Offers Before Modi-Trump Meet
  3. India’s Global South Strategy: Multi-alignment and Development Role
  4. Voice of Global South Summit 2024: Outcomes and India’s Role
  5. India-EFTA TEPA: $100 Billion FDI Pledge and Investment Desk

Agriculture & Rural

  1. OIDF Money to Part-Fund Fertilizer Subsidy in FY26
  2. Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) under PM AASHA: Key Changes

Environment & Ecology

  1. India’s Renewable Energy Hurdles: 40 GW Unsold Capacity

Defence & Security

  1. UK Defence Partnership India (DPI) Announced at Aero India
  2. Aero India 2025: 15th Edition at Yelahanka, Bengaluru

Reports & Indexes

  1. India Justice Report 2025-26: Shrinking Justice Budgets
  2. HCES 2023-24: Conveyance Is Top Non-Food Spend

National Affairs

Economy

1. Health Budget 2025-26: Allocation, Share of GDP and Gaps

  • Health-related allocation in Union Budget 2025-26 reaches ₹1.19 trillion, up 18% from 2024-25, largely due to pending 15th Finance Commission grants.
  • Health is 2.4% of the Union Budget and 0.33% of GDP; total Centre plus States health spending is 0.79% of GDP in 2025-26.
  • Per capita health budget is ₹844, and Universal Health Coverage by 2030 looks uncertain.
  • Finance Commission health grants for local bodies saw only about 50% utilisation between 2021-22 and 2023-24.
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Banking & Finance

Economy

Economy

5. Disinvestment in Budget 2025-26: Miscellaneous Capital Receipts

  • Budget 2025-26 folds disinvestment into 'miscellaneous capital receipts', with a target of ₹47,000 crore, same as last year.
  • Past targets were ₹1.05 trillion (2019-20), ₹2.1 trillion (2020-21) and ₹1.75 trillion (2021-22), none achieved.
  • The last big privatisations were Air India and Neelachal Ispat in 2022; IDBI Bank's sale is stuck.
  • Minority disinvestment leaves the government with a majority stake, usually above 51%.
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International Affairs

International Relations

6. Trump’s Gaza Relocation Plan and West Asia Impact

  • On 4 February 2025 Trump proposed moving Gaza's 2.3 million people to Egypt and Jordan and redeveloping the strip as a global tourist hub.
  • Saudi Crown Prince MbS said Riyadh would not normalise ties with Israel without a Palestinian state.
  • Gaza reconstruction is put at $50 billion for 170,000 destroyed homes.
  • The Abraham Accords were signed on 15 September 2020 by Israel with the UAE and Bahrain.
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International Relations

8. India’s Global South Strategy: Multi-alignment and Development Role

  • India's foreign policy amplifies developing-country voices, for example via the Voice of Global South Summit 2024.
  • India is described as multi-aligned, balancing ties with the Global South and developed nations.
  • Suggested approach: mutual learning, not a 'big brother' role, and stronger institutional support for ITEC-type capacity building.
  • India pushed African Union inclusion in the G20 in 2023.
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Agriculture & Rural

Environment & Ecology

Economy

13. India’s Renewable Energy Hurdles: 40 GW Unsold Capacity

  • India was likely to miss the 10 February deadline for its third Paris Agreement climate plan submission.
  • Around 40 GW of renewable projects tendered by SECI, NTPC, NHPC and SJVN lack signed power sale agreements.
  • Solar power costs about ₹2.50 per unit; TERI and CPI see it falling to ₹1.9 by 2030.
  • India aims for 500 GW of non-fossil power capacity by 2030.
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Defence & Security

Reports & Indexes

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