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UPSC Relevance: GS Paper 3: Environment, Energy, and Sustainable Development Why in the News? In 2024, India added 24.5 gigawatts (GW) of solar energy capacity — becoming the third-largest contributor globally after China and the United States.The United Nations Secretary-General’s 2025 Climate Report has also recognised India, Brazil, and China as leading developing nations in […]

UPSC Relevance– Prelims Facts: China: ~50% global green hydrogen, ~85% ALK electrolysers,India target: 5 MT green hydrogen by 2030. GS II – Governance & IR: India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission (policy, industry, renewable integration),GS III – S&T, Environment, Economy: Electrolysers (ALK vs PEM), renewable energy, green hydrogen production Why in the News? Green hydrogen is

Upsc Relevance- Prelim(India as the 3rd largest e-waste generator……) Mains- GS PAPER-3,Environment Why in the News? India generated 2.2 million tonnes (MT) of e-waste in 2025, making it the third-largest e-waste generator globally, after China and the United States. Despite having formal recycling capacity, more than half of this e-waste is still processed informally, creating

UPSC Relevance ●      GS-3 (Science & Technology): Advances in physics, astronomy, and space-based observatories. Why in News? Scientists are planning to use the Moon as a new place to study gravitational waves (tiny ripples in space-time). A U.S. project called the Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) wants to build a detector in the Moon’s quiet

UPSC Relevance- Covers GS-3 (Economy, Technology, Employment, Inequality, Governance). Why in News Artificial Intelligence (AI) pioneer and Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hinton recently sounded a warning in the Financial Times: AI could lead to widening economic inequality, where a small section of society becomes significantly richer, while the majority of people see stagnant or declining incomes.

UPSC Relevance GS-3 (Agriculture, Science & Technology, Environment) Why in News Researchers at Zhejiang University (China), in collaboration with scientists from the Netherlands and Switzerland, have discovered a natural plant-to-plant communication system that helps maize crops resist insect attacks. Their study, published in Science (August 2025), highlights how the volatile compound linalool strengthens crop resilience,

upsc relevance– GS II (Polity – Fundamental Rights, Minority Rights, Separation of Powers) and GS I (Society – Communal Relations, Secularism). Why in News? On September 15, 2025, the Supreme Court gave an important order on the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. The Court did not stop the whole law from working but put a temporary

UPSC Relevance Prelims: JEV, dengue, Orthoflavivirus, chymase, ADE, mosquito vectors. Mains (GS II & III): Public health strategies, vaccination policy, impact of climate change on health, biotechnology applications in disease management, global health cooperation. Why in News A new study (September 2025, Science Translational Medicine) has found that when immunity from the Japanese Encephalitis (JE)

UPSC Relevance -GS paper-3, Environment Why in News? The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has notified the Environment Audit Rules, 2025, creating a new system to expand and professionalise India’s environmental compliance regime. For the first time, private environmental auditors will be accredited to assess industries and projects, supplementing the role of

UPSC Relevance GS Paper II: International Relations – India’s Foreign Policy, Strategic Autonomy, Multi-Alignment, Relations with U.S./China/Russia. Essay Paper: Themes on multipolarity, India as voice of Global South. Ethics/IR: Balancing autonomy with responsibility in global governance. Why in News? India’s foreign policy has increasingly centred on the principle of strategic autonomy amid shifting global power