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Daily Current Affairs: 31 October 2025

Current affairs of 31 October 2025: PM POSHAN Scheme: Coverage, Funding, Norms and Key Facts; UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2025: Finance Shortfall Widens; KOYLA SHAKTI Dashboard and CLAMP Portal for Coal Sector, and 12 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 15 topics

National Affairs

  1. Mohammad Azharuddin Sworn In as Telangana Minister

Government Schemes

  1. PM POSHAN Scheme: Coverage, Funding, Norms and Key Facts
  2. KOYLA SHAKTI Dashboard and CLAMP Portal for Coal Sector
  3. Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan Earns Three Guinness Records

Banking & Finance

  1. Insurance Sector at Unstable Equilibrium: Financial Summit Takeaways
  2. SEBI Interim Relief on Past Performance Data for IAs and RAs
  3. SEBI Sets Diversification Rules for BankNifty, FinNifty, Bankex

Economy

  1. Rupee Internationalisation: Roadmap, Concerns and Way Forward

International Affairs

  1. India Backs Afghan Dam Plan on Kunar River

Agriculture & Rural

  1. Seed Act Plan: Law Against Spurious Pesticides and Seeds
  2. First Air Shipment of GI-Tagged Indi and Puliyankudi Limes to UK

Defence & Security

  1. India-US Sign 10-Year Defence Framework in Kuala Lumpur
  2. International Fleet Review 2026: India Skips China, Pakistan, Turkiye

Reports & Indexes

  1. UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2025: Finance Shortfall Widens
  2. NITI Aayog Report: Services Jobs Grow but Stay Informal

National Affairs

Government Schemes

Government Schemes

2. PM POSHAN Scheme: Coverage, Funding, Norms and Key Facts

  • Run by the Ministry of Education, PM POSHAN serves a hot cooked meal each school day to roughly 11.8 crore pupils.
  • The mid-day meal programme started on 15 August 1995; the Cabinet renamed it PM POSHAN on 29 September 2021.
  • Costs are split 60:40 between Centre and states, and 90:10 in North-Eastern and Himalayan states.
  • Nutrition norms: 450 calories and 12 g protein for primary; 700 calories and 20 g protein for upper primary.
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Government Schemes

4. Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan Earns Three Guinness Records

  • India secured three Guinness World Records under Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan, announced on 31 October 2025.
  • The campaign ran from 17 September to 2 October 2025 under the Union Health Ministry.
  • Records: 3.21 crore registrations on a health platform in a month, 9.94 lakh online breast cancer screening sign-ups and 1.25 lakh online vital signs screenings.
  • More than 19.7 lakh health camps drew about 11 crore participants.
Full notes and 3 MCQs ›

Banking & Finance

Economy

Economy

8. Rupee Internationalisation: Roadmap, Concerns and Way Forward

  • Rupee internationalisation means wider use of the rupee in global trade, payments, investment and, eventually, reserves.
  • An Inter-Departmental Group gave the first roadmap in July 2023: 10 short-term, 5 medium-term and 1 long-term milestone.
  • 83 banks from 35 countries have opened Special Rupee Vostro Accounts with Indian banks.
  • Around 5% of India’s total international trade is settled in rupees.
  • It is a gradual process and does not automatically mean full capital account convertibility.
Full notes and 3 MCQs ›

International Affairs

Agriculture & Rural

Defence & Security

Reports & Indexes

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