Social Justice & Inclusive Development
-Education: 700 model schools + proposed National School of Drama campus → wider access to quality education and opportunities.
-Justice at Doorstep: Sahyog Shivir —> 7 lakh+ applications; 96% grievances resolved; time-bound disposal with accountability of officials.
-Women Empowerment: Up to Rs. 2 lakh assistance to women entrepreneurs —> financial inclusion and self-employment.
-Livelihood Security: Irrigation coverage increased from 21 lakh ha (2005) to nearly 44 lakh ha (2026); promotion of fisheries —> rural income and employment.
-Regional Equity: New airports at Valmikinagar, Muzaffarpur and Raxaul, medical college in East Champaran —> reducing regional disparities in access to services.

Value Addition: Social justice = access to education + responsive governance + economic empowerment + livelihood security + balanced regional development.

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Rubber Plantation
-Rubber Board: Statutory body under Ministry of Commerce & Industry; Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII) is at Kottayam, Kerala.
-Rubber cultivation: Kerala is India’s traditional rubber capital; Tripura is a major producer in the Northeast.
-Jharkhand: Rubber Board conducting clonal trials at Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi for commercially suitable varieties.
-Expansion potential: Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha and Chhattisgarh identified as potential states for rubber cultivation.
-Natural rubber: India faces about 35% demand–supply deficit, necessitating imports; expansion and higher-yielding clones are key measures.
-Crop fact: Rubber has a long gestation period (~7 years) and is promoted particularly on suitable barren/marginal lands.

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A GSLV-F17 rocket successfully placed the heaviest Earth observation satellite EOS-05 in the geosynchronous orbit, marking a great achievement in the country's space programme.

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Virtues of Darkness
Krishna’s dark complexion reflects India’s cultural celebration of darkness, challenging modern colourism and narrow beauty standards.

Darkness is not merely the absence of light; it is a space for beauty, balance, discovery and self-reflection.

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Ramphal Mandal (1924–1943), born at Madhurapur village, Bajpatti (Sitamarhi), was a Bihar revolutionary associated with the Quit India Movement (1942); he was hanged at Bhagalpur Central Jail on 23 August 1943, aged 19.

In September 2026, the Bihar Cabinet decided to observe his martyrdom day annually on 23 August as a state function in Sitamarhi district.

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Sher Shah Suri’s Tomb and Hasan Shah Suri’s Tomb are protected monuments at Sasaram, Rohtas (Bihar), under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).

Sher Shah Suri’s Tomb, built in Indo-Islamic/Afghan architectural style, stands on an artificial island in a lake and was designed by Mir Muhammad Aliwal Khan.

Construction around centrally protected monuments is regulated under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (AMASR) Act, 1958- generally 100 m prohibited area + next 200 m regulated area.

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Bihar’s second zoo after Patna is proposed at Kandi, Gaya on about 110 acres

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Dark Matter & LZ Experiment
-Dark Matter: Invisible matter that does not emit or reflect light; inferred mainly through its gravitational effects on visible matter.
-Fritz Zwicky (1933): First proposed the concept of “missing mass” while studying the motion of galaxies in a galaxy cluster.
-Evidence: Galaxy rotation, gravitational lensing and formation/distribution of large-scale cosmic structures support the existence of dark matter.
-Cosmic composition: Ordinary (baryonic) matter constitutes only about 5% of the universe; dark matter about 27%.
-WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles): One of the major hypothetical candidates for dark matter; not yet conclusively detected.
-LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ): Dark-matter experiment located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, South Dakota, USA.
-Recent finding: LZ researchers reported a single WIMP-like event, but it does not constitute confirmed detection of dark matter.

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