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Today's Current Affairs - 12 October 2025

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Current Edge: Daily Brief – 10th October 2025

🗳 BIG PICTURE #1: India’s Electoral Roll overhaul

🕊 BIG PICTURE #2: Israel–Hamas ceasefire deal

🐉 BIG PICTURE #3: India–China: Compete or Cooperate?

🦠 BIG PICTURE #4: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

🌾 BIG PICTURE #5: Punjab floods and soil health

⚡️ NEWS IN SHORT:
🌿 National Red List Roadmap launched

📝 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE:
Under international law, Israel’s continued military presence in Gaza post-2023 war would primarily raise issues under which legal regime?
(a) UN Charter, Article 51 – Right to self-defence
(b) Geneva Conventions – Law of Occupation
(c) Rome Statute – Jus ad bellum provisions
(d) Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine

💬 QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When a man is in despair, it means he still believes in something.” – Dmitri Shostakovich

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The Tamil Nadu government has announced the recruitment of 2,708 assistant professors in government arts and science colleges across the state.

This move aims to bridge the long-standing faculty gap in many degree colleges, especially in rural areas.

The recruitment will be done through the Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB).
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Higher Education Minister Govi Chezhian made this announcement.

Current Edge: Daily Brief – 9th October 2025

⚗️ BIG PICTURE #1: Nobel Prize 2025 in Chemistry — Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa & Omar Yaghi honoured for creating Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs)

🌿 BIG PICTURE #2: India’s invasive species dilemma — conserve or control? Scientists push for parallel documentation and conservation

⚡️ NEWS IN SHORT:
🏦 RBI launches deposit tokenisation pilot — bank deposits now issued as blockchain-based tokens using e₹-W

📝 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE:
Which among the following properties of Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) makes them particularly suited for carbon capture and hydrogen storage?
1) High specific surface area
2) Adjustable pore size
3) Chemical inertness
4) Strong covalent bonding within the framework
Select the correct answer:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 1, 2 and 3 only
(c) 2, 3 and 4 only
(d) 1, 3 and 4 only

💬 QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost.” – Sun Tzu

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Current Edge: Daily Brief – 6th October 2025

⚖️ BIG PICTURE #1: India’s courts drowning under 4.57 crore cases — ADR seen as lifeboat

🌍 BIG PICTURE #2: PoK erupts again — 9 killed as protests over high tariffs...

📉 BIG PICTURE #3: Inflation cools, confidence rises — Retail inflation near 2%, rural optimism up

🌊 BIG PICTURE #4: Philippines pioneers coral cryobank — freezing coral larvae at –196°C

🔴 BIG PICTURE #5: Maoist movement fading out — 270 killed, 1,225 surrendered this year

⚡️ NEWS IN SHORT:
🌧 Darjeeling Landslides

📝 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE:
In the context of coral conservation, vitrification refers to
(a) A natural process of coral skeleton mineralization
(b) A genetic modification method for coral larvae
(c) Rapid freezing into a glass-like state without ice crystal formation
(d) Use of lasers to identify coral DNA structures

💬 QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.” Norman Cousins

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Current Edge: Daily Brief – 1st October 2025

🎶 BIG PICTURE #1: Delhi HC clears Rahman in Dhrupad copyright row—verdict highlights India’s oral classical traditions and the syncretic Dagar lineage

⛺️ BIG PICTURE #2: Sentinelese Census debate—Govt proposes non-invasive drone counts, but experts warn: enumeration itself is intrusion

💧 BIG PICTURE #3: MGNREGA amendment—block-level water focus: 65% in over-exploited zones, 40% semi-critical, 30% safe

🕊 BIG PICTURE #4: Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan—hostage swaps, Hamas disarmament, intl stabilisation force, big Arab role

👷 BIG PICTURE #5: Punjab migrant tensions revive Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act—equal wages, journey & displacement allowance

⚡️ NEWS IN SHORT:
📦 RoDTEP export sop extended till March 2026

💬 QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” – DOUGLAS ADAMS

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Current Edge: Daily Brief – 26th September 2025

⛰ BIG PICTURE #1: Ladakh erupts—protestors demand statehood & Sixth Schedule autonomy; 4 dead, BJP office torched

⚖️ BIG PICTURE #2: SC reopens debate—should defamation be decriminalised? Clash of free speech (Art.19(1)(a)) vs dignity (Art.21)

⚡️ NEWS IN SHORT:
🧾 FM launches GSTAT, India’s first unified GST Appellate Tribunal—116 members, 32 benches, e-court portal

📝 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE:
Q. In the context of Indian constitutional law, the principle of proportionality is applied to determine whether:
(a) Fundamental Rights can be suspended during national emergency.
(b) A restriction on a Fundamental Right is reasonable under Article 19(2).
(c) Directive Principles can override Fundamental Rights.
(d) Parliament can amend Fundamental Rights under Article 368.

💬 QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If the world doesn’t exist, invent it; But first be sure it doesn’t exist.” – Charles Baudelaire

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Current Edge: Daily Brief – 25th September 2025

🔊 BIG PICTURE: India’s noise crisis is too loud to ignore! Cities regularly cross 70+ dB vs WHO’s 55 dB safe limit. Hypertension, stress, sleep loss—vendors, traffic police, delivery staff worst hit

⚡️ NEWS IN SHORT:
🪖 CDS tenure extended: General Anil Chauhan to continue till May 2026 to drive key reforms, esp. theaterisation of India’s armed forces

📝 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE:
Q: Which of the following pollutants is legally recognised as an air pollutant under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981?
1) Noise
2) Ozone
3) Radioactive substances
4) Light
Select the correct answer:
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 2, 3 and 4

💬 QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“One of the key qualities an umpire must possess is humility – the ability to know and accept the role that we play.” – Simon Taufel

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