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Daily Current Affairs: 9 & 10 March 2025

Current affairs of 9 & 10 March 2025: OIC Backs Arab League Gaza Plan, Rejects Trump Proposal; India-Mauritius Relations: Modi’s Visit and Strategic Ties; NDB Investment by Pakistan: India’s IMF Objections, and 19 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 22 topics

National Affairs

  1. 100-Day TB Elimination Campaign: Results and Shortcomings
  2. India’s Startup Boom: Challenges and Lessons from UPI

Government Schemes

  1. IndiaAI Mission: ₹10,371.92 Crore Plan, Pillars and Progress
  2. Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment: FY25 Update
  3. Women in Entrepreneurship and Finance: Closing the Gender Gap

Banking & Finance

  1. Futures vs Options: F&O Basics and Motilal Oswal Curb
  2. SEBI Chief’s Agenda: Investor Protection and Enforcement Reforms
  3. SBI Asmita Loan and Nari Shakti Debit Card for Women
  4. US Strategic Crypto Reserve: Coins, Risks and Indian Tax Rules
  5. Rural Co-operative Credit: NABARD’s Rs 1,000 Crore Tech Push

Economy

  1. India’s Bilateral Investment Treaty Framework: Gaps and Fixes

International Affairs

  1. OIC Backs Arab League Gaza Plan, Rejects Trump Proposal
  2. India-Mauritius Relations: Modi’s Visit and Strategic Ties
  3. NDB Investment by Pakistan: India’s IMF Objections

Agriculture & Rural

  1. Rubber Board Geo Mapping of Kerala Plantations for EUDR
  2. Makhana Superfood: Bihar’s 90% Share and Makhana Board
  3. Women-Led Cooperatives in Eastern Himalayan Region Farming
  4. State Farmer Incentives Over PM-KISAN: MSP Bonus vs DBT

Science & Technology

  1. India’s Semiconductor Push: First Domestic Chip in 2025

Environment & Ecology

  1. River Dolphins in India: 6,327 Count, Threats and Project Dolphin

Defence & Security

  1. Hacktivist Attacks on India 2024: Group-IB Report Findings

Awards & Persons

  1. Sahitya Akademi Awards 2024: 23 Writers Honoured

National Affairs

Economy

2. India’s Startup Boom: Challenges and Lessons from UPI

  • India ranks third among startup ecosystems worldwide behind the US and China, with 120,000+ registrations in ten years.
  • Atal Tinkering Labs in 10,000 schools aim to build early innovation among students.
  • Challenges include price-sensitive consumers, cautious adoption, limited domestic venture capital and a high failure rate.
  • UPI, built by NPCI, succeeded through government backing, a digital stack, incentives, open APIs and cultural change.
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Government Schemes

Government Schemes

3. IndiaAI Mission: ₹10,371.92 Crore Plan, Pillars and Progress

  • IndiaAI Mission has an outlay of ₹10,371.92 crore to build indigenous AI capacity and cut reliance on foreign models.
  • AI Kosha is a national platform of non-personal Indian datasets for AI research.
  • Around 14,000 GPUs are deployed through empanelled data centres, with quarterly expansion planned.
  • 67 proposals were received for government-backed indigenous AI models; the AI Safety Institute awaits formal launch.
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Banking & Finance

Economy

International Affairs

International Relations

12. OIC Backs Arab League Gaza Plan, Rejects Trump Proposal

  • The OIC accepted the Arab League's counter-plan for Gaza, rejecting the US President's proposal of American control.
  • The Egypt-drafted plan puts Gaza's reconstruction under the Palestinian Authority instead of a US administration.
  • The Arab League had approved the plan in Cairo three days before the OIC's endorsement.
  • The OIC has 57 member states, was founded in 1969 and is headed by Hissein Brahim Taha.
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Economy

14. NDB Investment by Pakistan: India’s IMF Objections

  • Pakistan's ECC approved a $582 million investment in the New Development Bank for a 1.1% stake.
  • India plans to raise objections at the IMF's review of the second tranche of Pakistan's loan.
  • India argues IMF money must not be diverted to defence spending or repayment of external debt.
  • NDB was founded by the BRICS states in 2015; it is headquartered in Shanghai and led by Dilma Rousseff.
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Agriculture & Rural

Government Schemes

17. Women-Led Cooperatives in Eastern Himalayan Region Farming

  • Women supply over 70% of agricultural labour in the Eastern Himalayan Region (EHR).
  • FAO links women-led cooperatives to SDG 1 (no poverty), SDG 5 (gender equality) and SDG 8 (economic growth).
  • Assam's MKSP (2016-17) empowered 12,500 Self-Help Groups; Meghalaya's Pla Tangka Cooperative Society began in 2025.
  • Ministry of Cooperation was created in 2021 and the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act dates from 2002.
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Economy

18. State Farmer Incentives Over PM-KISAN: MSP Bonus vs DBT

  • Several states added incentives on top of the Centre's PM-KISAN: top-ups, per-hectare benefits and bonuses above MSP.
  • Odisha's CM-KISAN gives ₹4,000 a year, which with PM-KISAN's ₹6,000 totals ₹10,000 per year.
  • A C.S.C. Sekhar study put MSP procurement plus deficiency price payment at ₹2.65-3.4 lakh crore a year.
  • DBT of ₹10,000-12,500 per farm would cost ₹1.44-1.89 lakh crore, cheaper than MSP procurement.
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Science & Technology

Environment & Ecology

Environment & Ecology

20. River Dolphins in India: 6,327 Count, Threats and Project Dolphin

  • A population study by the Environment Ministry reported 6,327 river dolphins in India.
  • Obligate river dolphins live only in freshwater (Ganges, Indus, Yangtze); facultative ones such as the Irrawaddy dolphin use both fresh and marine water.
  • Indus river dolphin, Punjab's State aquatic animal, is critically low in India: only 3 spotted in the Beas, versus 1,800 in Pakistan.
  • Project Dolphin began in 2020; the Ganges Dolphin Conservation Action Plan ran from 2010 to 2020.
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Defence & Security

Awards & Persons

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