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Daily Current Affairs: 15 February 2025

Current affairs of 15 February 2025: Modi-Trump Talks: Mission 500, TRUST and Rana Extradition; F-35 Offer to India: Strategic, Cost and Air Force Factors; Teesta-3 Dam Rebuild: Experts Back Plan After 2023 GLOF, and 7 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 10 topics

Banking & Finance

  1. RBI Supersedes New India Co-operative Bank Board, Curbs Imposed
  2. India’s Forex Reserves Rise to $638.26 Billion: RBI Data

Economy

  1. NFRA Gets New Chairperson: Nitin Gupta and Mandate of the Authority
  2. India’s CPI Inflation Eases to 4.3% in January

International Affairs

  1. Modi-Trump Talks: Mission 500, TRUST and Rana Extradition
  2. F-35 Offer to India: Strategic, Cost and Air Force Factors
  3. MAGAnomics: Trump’s Economic Approach Explained

Agriculture & Rural

  1. Aquatic Animal Diseases Symposium Ahead of 14AFAF

Science & Technology

  1. Earth’s Seasons: Axial Tilt, Orbital Eccentricity and El Niño

Environment & Ecology

  1. Teesta-3 Dam Rebuild: Experts Back Plan After 2023 GLOF

Banking & Finance

Economy

International Affairs

International Relations

6. F-35 Offer to India: Strategic, Cost and Air Force Factors

  • The US offered India the F-35, a fifth-generation stealth fighter; the IAF needs it but strategic and cost issues cloud the decision.
  • India and the US plan to elevate defence cooperation and to buy six more P-8I aircraft, with Stryker and Javelin co-production.
  • The IAF has 30 operational fighter squadrons against a requirement of 42.5.
  • Buying the F-35 could strain the S-400 deal and divert focus from the indigenous AMCA.
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Economy

7. MAGAnomics: Trump’s Economic Approach Explained

  • MAGAnomics is Donald Trump's economic approach, a mix of protectionism, deficit spending, deregulation and industrial policy, often contradictory.
  • It favours heavy tariffs on imports, especially from China, to bring back manufacturing.
  • Tariffs and deportations can raise inflation, undermining promises to curb it.
  • It is seen as a reaction to globalisation's failures rather than an organised school of economics.
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Agriculture & Rural

Science & Technology

Science & Technology

9. Earth’s Seasons: Axial Tilt, Orbital Eccentricity and El Niño

  • Axial tilt is the main cause of Earth's seasons; the hemisphere tilted toward the Sun has summer.
  • Earth's orbit is an ellipse, so distance from the Sun varies; new research says this matters more than assumed.
  • During El Niño, the Pacific Cold Tongue warms by up to 5°C, which can bring droughts in India.
  • Eleven thousand years ago, closest approach coincided with Northern Hemisphere summer, giving stronger monsoons.
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Environment & Ecology

Environment & Ecology

10. Teesta-3 Dam Rebuild: Experts Back Plan After 2023 GLOF

  • An expert committee set up by the Government of India recommended restarting the Teesta-3 dam in Sikkim.
  • The dam was washed away in October 2023 by a GLOF from South Lhonak lake, killing over 100 and displacing 80,000.
  • Glacial lakes in the region rose 10.8% in number and 33.7% in surface area from 2011 to 2024.
  • Teesta-3 2.0 would be all-concrete, with a larger spillway and an early warning system.
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