📝 India’s Defence Exports[1]
🚀 India’s defence exports have hit a new record of ₹23,622 crore in FY 2024-25 ⇒ 12.04% more than FY 2023-24 ⇒ Private sector share (64.7%) exceeds public sector.
👉🏽 India aims to achieve defence exports worth ₹50,000 crore by 2029.
📝 Navika Sagar Parikrama II[2]
🚀 Navika Sagar Parikrama II: started on Oct 2, 2024, by two women officers (Dilna K. and Roopa A.) to cover more than 23,400 nautical miles across three oceans (Indian, Atlantic, Pacific) onboard INSV Tarini.
👉🏽 Route: Goa → Fremantle (Australia) → Lyttelton (New Zealand) → Port Stanley (Falkland Islands) → Cape Town (South Africa) → Goa.
🚀 INSV Tarini: built indigenously ⇒ commissioned in 2017.
📝 Tribhuvan Sahkari University Bill[3]
🚀 Tribhuvan Sahkari University Bill: seeks to establish the Institute of Rural Management Anand as Tribhuvan Sahkari University and declare it an institution of national importance.
👉🏽 Named after Tribhuvan Das Patel ⇒ founder of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (Amul).
🚀 Govt aims to increase the number of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) from 1 lakh to 3 lakh in the next 5 years.
📝 Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) in India[4]
🚀 Number of districts affected by Naxalism/LWE: reduced to 18 from the earlier 38 ⇒ Number of “most-affected” districts: reduced to 6 from 12.
👉🏽 6 most-affected districts: Bijapur, Kanker, Narayanpur, and Sukma in Chhattisgarh; West Singhbhum (Jharkhand); and Gadchiroli (Maharashtra).
👉🏽 Financial assistance (Special Central Assistance scheme): most-affected districts → ₹30 crore; districts of concern → ₹10 crore.
🚀 Bharat aims to eradicate LWE by March 31, 2026.
📝 75 Years of India-China Diplomatic Relations[5]
🚀 April 1, 2025: 75th anniversary of India-China diplomatic relations.
🚀 India became the 1st non-socialist country in 1950 to establish diplomatic ties with China
🚀 Bilateral trade: increased from $3 billion (2000) to $138.5 billion (2024).
📝 Global Risks Report 2025[6]
🚀 Global Risks Report: Released by World Economic Forum (WEF)
👉🏽 2025’s report underscores misinformation and disinformation as the highest-ranked short-term global threat.
📝 Chhatrapati Shivaji[7]
🚀 Hindavi Svarājya: a socio-political movement led by Shivaji to establish a state free from foreign rule on the Indian subcontinent.
🚀 Ganimi Kawa: Guerrilla warfare pioneered by Shivaji.
🚀 Shakakarta: Epithet of Shivaji ⇒ meaning: founder of an era.
🚀 Francois Martin (1st Governor-General of Puducherry under French rule) describes Shivaji’s persona as free from pomp and luxury.
🚀 He discouraged the hereditary system and promoted meritocracy ⇒ recruited meritorious employees from so-called ‘lower’ castes, poor Brahmins, nomads, peasants, and petty landlords.
🚀 He allowed those who wished to revert to Hinduism, even before the Arya Samajists.
🚀 Life of the Celebrated Sevagy (by Cosme de Guarda): 1st systematic biography of Shivaji ⇒ Shivaji declared that his wives should not be forced to commit sati upon his demise.
🚀 Sabhasad Bakhar: Biography of Shivaji written by Krishnaji Anant Sabhasad in 1697.
🚀 Rajavyavaharakosa: Sponsored (1677) by Shivaji and compiled by Raghunath Pandit (Shivaji’s chief justice) ⇒ a lexicon of Persian and Arabic terms with their Sanskrit equivalents.
👉🏽 Marathi in Devanāgarī or Mōdī script became the language of the court.
🚀 Banning slavery: Under the Charter (1677) signed with the Dutch
🚀 Abolition of ‘Vatandari’ (landlordism, in Deccan) and implementation of Ryotwari (greater control to cultivator).
📝 Miscellaneous
🚀 Devaraya I[8] ⇒ Sangama Dynasty
👉🏽 Varaha ⇒ royal insignia of the Vijayanagara Empire
🚀 4th edition of Tiger Triumph (India-USA tri-service Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief exercise) was launched onboard the INS Jalashwa at the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam on April 1[9] ⇒ Two phases: Harbour Phase (till April 7) & Sea Phase (April 8-12).
🚀 Cape Town Convention[10]: an international treaty to standardise movable property transactions, particularly high-value assets like aircraft, engines, and helicopters.
🚀 Only 5 countries have direct access to the Arctic seabed: Canada, Russia, Norway, Denmark (via Greenland), and the U.S. (via Alaska).[11]
Citations
- India’s defence exports hit new record of ₹23,622 crore for 2024-25: Ministry of Defence
- INSV Tarini reaches Cape Town on final stopover of global circumnavigation
- Parliament passes Tribhuvan Sahkari University Bill, 2025 to establish Institute of Rural Management
- India nears Naxalism-free goal as most affected districts drop to six: Home Minister Amit Shah
- China-India ties across the past and into the future
- Tackling the disinformation threat in India
- The radical and enduring legacy of Shivaji
- Rare copper plates documenting Devaraya I’s coronation during Vijayanagara Empire unveiled in Bengaluru
- India-US begin 4th edition of Exercise Tiger Triumph in Visakhapatnam
- Rajya Sabha passes Bill for airline-lessor disputes
- Leave it alone: on the status of Greenland