UPSC Current Affairs – News Summary of 10 September 2025

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Newly elected Vice President of India C. P. Radhakrishnan with PM Modi on 9 September 2025. Photo – X/@narendramodi

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C.P. Radhakrishnan elected as the 15th Vice-President of India 

• C. P. Radhakrishnan — the ruling NDA’s nominee — got 452 first preferential votes against the joint Opposition candidate Justice B. Sudershan Reddy, who got 300 votes.
• 15th individual to become Vice President; 17th Vice President, counting terms to date.
• Electoral college for the election of the Vice President of India consists of:
  • Elected members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha,
  • Nominated members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
• The full electoral college for the election of Vice President comprises 788 (245 RS MPs + 543 LS MPs) electors → with six vacancies in the Rajya Sabha and one in the Lok Sabha, this was reduced to 781 for the election.

Great Nicobar Island project and controversy around it

• Union govt has sought a factual report from the Andaman & Nicobar administration following complaints from the Tribal Council of Little and Great Nicobar.
• Complaint by Tribal Council:
  • Forest Rights under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 were not settled before the diversion of forest land for the Great Nicobar Island Project.
  • Administration falsely issued certification stating all FRA rights were settled.
  • Consent from the tribes was taken under pressure and later withdrawn.
• FRA 2006: Grants community and individual rights to Scheduled Tribes and traditional forest dwellers → Consent of Gram Sabha is mandatory for diversion of forest land.
• Administration’s stance: FRA 2006 does not apply to A&N Islands, because the rights of Nicobarese are already protected under the Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation (Andaman & Nicobar Islands), 1956. This regulation allows administration to divert forest land unilaterally.

AdFalciVax – India’s first malaria vaccine

• Developed indigenously by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in partnership with the DBT’s National Institute of Immunology.
• World’s first malaria vaccine to provide dual-stage protection by targeting both the pre-erythrocytic (infection) stage and the sexual (transmission) stage of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite.
• A recombinant chimeric multi-stage vaccine → uses Lactococcus lactis (genetically engineered bacterium) to produce malaria antigens.
• Recently, Indian govt licensed the AdFalciVax technology to five Indian companies to advance clinical trials, production, and commercialization.
• India carries 1.4% of the global malaria case burden, and accounts for 66% of cases in the Southeast Asia region → India aims to eliminate malaria by 2030.

Miscellaneous

1. Tiwa Langkhun festival: a socio-religious event celebrated by the Tiwa community mainly in Assam.
2. Following the Supreme Court’s order, the Election Commission directed Bihar’s Chief Electoral Officer to accept Aadhaar as proof of identity for the Bihar SIR.
3. Nepal’s PM K.P. Sharma Oli resigned to pacify the Gen Z-led anti-corruption protests.
4. Sébastien Lecornu: new Prime Minister of France.
5. Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: built on the Blue Nile river in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia → recently inaugurated by Ethiopia → Africa’s largest hydroelectric project.
6. Evia island: Greece → located in the Aegean Sea.
7. Donetsk region: Ukraine
8. Hezbollah: Iran-backed Shia Islamist political party and militant group in Lebanon.
9. Allied Democratic Forces (ADF): an Islamist rebel group primarily based in Uganda and DR Congo.

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