📝 India Justice Report 2025[1]
🚀 Released by Tata Trusts since 2019 ⇒ Ranks states on the capacity of police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid
🔎 Findings
👉🏽 Approx 15 judges per million population in India ⇒ 1987 Law Commission recommended 50 judges per million population.
👉🏽 Share of women judges: Increased to 38.3% in the district judiciary and 14% in the High Courts in 2025 ⇒ Supreme Court has only two (6%) women judges.
👉🏽 No state spends more than 1% of its annual expenditure on the judiciary.
📝 Registration of births and deaths in India[2]
🚀 Governed by RBD Act, 1969 (as amended in 2023) ⇒ Makes registration of all births and deaths across India mandatory ⇒ Negligence by a registrar in registration is punishable.
👉🏽 2023 amendment mandates a digital database of all registered events, maintained by the Registrar General of India (RGI).
🚀 Under the Civil Registration System (CRS), the govt hospitals function as registrars ⇒ Private hospitals must report events to designated govt registrars; they cannot register independently [Implementation varies by state]
👉🏽 All registrations from Oct 1, 2023, must be via the CRS online portal.
🤔 What is CRS, and when was it established?
💡Digital birth certificates: Sole proof of date of birth from October 1, 2023.
💡Nearly 10% of births and deaths go unregistered as per RGI.
We have also addressed this topic HERE.
📝 Monsoon Forecast 2025[3][4][5]
🚀 IMD has predicted above normal rainfall during 2025’s southwest monsoon ⇒ Approx 105% of LPA
💡Long Period Average (LPA) of the southwest monsoon in India is taken for the period 1971-2020, and it is 87 cm.
🚀 IMD’s new forecast strategy: Based on both the statistical and dynamic forecasting systems.
👉🏽 Statistical Ensemble Forecasting System (SEFS): Introduced in 2007
👉🏽 Dynamic: Multi-Model Ensemble (MME) forecasting system ⇒ Implemented in 2021 ⇒ Uses the Coupled Global Climate Models (CGCMs) from different global climate prediction and research centres, including IMD’s Monsoon Mission Climate Forecasting System (MMCFS) model ⇒ MMCFS and MME forecasts are updated every month.
👉🏽 SEFS and MME systems helped IMD to reduce its forecast error by 18% during 2007-2024 compared to 1989-2006.
💡IMD’s 5-category probability forecasts for SW Monsoon
Category Rainfall Range (% of LPA)
Deficient < 90
Below Normal 90 – 95
Normal 96 -104
Above Normal 105-110
Excess > 110
📝 Justice Kurian Joseph Committee[6]
🚀 Appointed by the Tamil Nadu government to review centre-state relations and suggest measures for improvement.
💡 P.V. Rajamannar Committee: Appointed by the Tamil Nadu government in 1969 to look into the centre-states relations.
🤔 Why are these committees always popping up — can’t the Centre and States just sort things out? What’s really causing the tension between them?
Feel free to discuss it HERE.
📝 DUSTLIK-VI[7]
🚀 6th edition of Joint Military Exercise between India and Uzbekistan ⇒ Scheduled for April 16-28, 2025, at the Foreign Training Node, Aundh (Pune).
👉🏽 India is represented by JAT Regiment and IAF.
💡 DUSTLIK is an annual exercise held alternately in both countries.
📝 Cargo Traffic on National Waterways[8]
🚀 Reached a record high of 145.5 million tonnes during the FY25 ⇒ 9.34% growth compared to the previous FY.
👉🏽 5 key commodities: Coal, iron ore, iron ore fines, sand and fly ash ⇒ Constituted over 68% of the total cargo.
🤔 How many National Waterways have been notified in India? Who manages these waterways?
📝 Miscellaneous[9][10][11][12][13]
🚀 Operation Chakra V: Launched by the CBI against Transnational Organised Cybercrime/ Digital Arrests.
🚀 India aims for 100 GW of nuclear capacity by 2047.
🚀 Tuti Island: Located at the confluence of the Blue and White Niles.
🤔 In which country is this island located?
🗺️✏️ Locate it on a map.
🚀 G4 nations: India, Brazil, Germany, and Japan ⇒ Support each other’s bids for the UNSC’s permanent seats ⇒ Formed in 2005.
🚀 The Central Railway has introduced an ATM inside the Mumbai-Manmad Panchavati Express ⇒ First-of-its-kind initiative.