📝 Prison Conditions in India[1]
🚀 Highlighted by the recently released India Justice Report 2025.
🚀 Indian jails are overcrowded ⇒ National average occupancy rate is over 131%.
🚀 There are only 25 psychologists available to assist all the prisoners.
🚀 43% vacancy among medical officers ⇒ India’s prisoner-doctor ratio is 775.
💡Model Prison Manual (2016): Benchmarks the prisoner-doctor ratio at 300 and the prisoner-psychologist/psychiatrist ratio at 500.
🚀 Health data on prisoners related to disability is not available.
📝 V2G technology[2]
🚀 Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology: Enables electric vehicle (EV) batteries to send power back to the grid ⇒ When an EV is not in use, it can act as a decentralised battery energy storage device.
👉🏽 Other possibilities: Vehicle to Home (V2H), Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) etc.
🚀 The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and IIT Bombay have initiated a pilot project to explore the implementation of V2G technology.
📝 World Heritage Day[3]
🚀 Celebrated every year on 18th April ⇒ Started in 1982 by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) ⇒ UNESCO officially adopted it in 1983.
👉🏽 2025’s theme: Heritage under Threat from Disasters and Conflicts: Preparedness and Learning from 60 years of ICOMOS Actions.
💡India has 43 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, with Agra Fort, Taj Mahal, Ajanta, and Ellora Caves among the first listed in 1983.
💡World Heritage Convention: Adopted by UNESCO in 1972 ⇒ Joined by 196 countries ⇒ Adopted by India in 1977.
📝 Bhagvad Gita and Natyashastra[4]
🚀 Inscribed in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.
👉🏽 Bhagavad Gita: Philosophical dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna comprising 700 verses across 18 chapters.
👉🏽 Natyashastra: Foundational treatise by Bharat Muni on Indian performing arts, encompassing theatre, dance, and music.
💡India now has 14 entries in this register.
📝 India’s Electronics Sector[5]
🚀 Manufacturing: Increased 5 times to ₹11 lakh crore in the last 10 years.
🚀 Exports: Increased 6 times in the last 10 years ⇒ Crossed ₹3,25,000 crore.
🚀 Employment: Nearly 25 lakh persons.
📝 Axiom Mission 4[6][7]
🚀 A planned private spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) operated by Axiom Space in partnership with SpaceX and NASA.
👉🏽 It will use a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket to place Crew Dragon C213 into low Earth orbit.
🚀 4 crew members: Commander Peggy Whitson (Axiom, USA), Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla (ISRO), Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski (Poland), and Tibor Kapu (Hungary).
👉🏽 It will mark the visit of the 1st Indian ever to the ISS and the 1st Indian astronaut to travel to Space in over 4 decades after Rakesh Sharma’s iconic 1984 flight aboard a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft.
📝 Miscellaneous[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
🚀 Andhra Pradesh has promulgated an ordinance to subcategorise the SCs.
🚀 K2-18b: Discovered by the Kepler telescope in 2015 ⇒ Recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest it may be habitable.
🚀 Russia has removed the Taliban’s designation as a “terrorist organisation.”
🚀 Golden Dome: A proposed missile defence shield for the USA.
🚀 Mahila Samvad Campaign: Launched by Bihar to receive feedback about the women empowerment schemes.
🚀 Hind Di Chadar: Epithet of Guru Tegh Bahadur (9th Guru).
🚀 Sanskriti Ka Panchva Adhyay: A compilation of speeches delivered by PM Modi ⇒ Launched by Juna Akhara head Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Swami Avdheshanand Giri.