#DailyUPSCCurrentAffairs | 16th & 17th September 2025

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👉 In today’s edition: What’s inside
✅ India’s 1st National Policy on Geothermal Energy – Net Zero 2070, FDI, hybrid renewables.
✅ WMO Ozone Bulletin
✅ Global Innovation Index 2025 – India at 38th, 4 innovation clusters, Startup India push.
✅ Tirupati Women-Led Development Conference
✅ Rabi crop targets, SPIN90 protein discovery, 7 UNESCO tentative heritage sites, Engineers’ Day tribute to M. Visvesvaraya.
✅ India’s first World Skating Champion 🏆 and more...

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#DailyUPSCPrelimsMCQs – #Polity | 18th Sept 2025

Thursday is for Polity in our subject-wise daily series.
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Today’s 5 MCQs will help you:
✅ Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA)
✅ Municipalities Articles
✅ Election Commission powers under Article 324
✅ Vice-President’s Electoral College
✅ Public Safety Act (PSA) J&K
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ASEAN Centrality in Crisis – Explained for UPSC

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ASEAN’s central role in the Indo-Pacific is under serious strain.
👉 US–China rivalry, trade wars, Myanmar crisis, and new groupings like QUAD & AUKUS are challenging its unity.
👉 India’s role, ASEAN–India FTA reforms, RCEP, and the way forward are crucial for UPSC GS2 & Essay prep.

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✅ What is ASEAN Centrality?
✅ Why it matters for India and Indo-Pacific security
✅ Challenges: US tariffs, Myanmar issue, internal divisions
✅ Way forward: ASEAN Vision 2045, India’s IPOI–AOIP cooperation
✅ Complete timeline of ASEAN milestones (1967–2023)

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UPSC CSE (GS2: International Relations, Essay, IR Current Affairs)

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#DailyUPSCCurrentAffairs | 18th September 2025

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👉 In today’s edition: What’s inside
✅ WTO World Trade Report 2025
✅ UN Gender Snapshot 2025
✅ Adi Karmayogi Abhiyan
✅ ECI Rule 49B Revision
✅ Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar Abhiyan
✅ Genocide Convention in Gaza context and more...

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#DailyUPSCMainsAnswerWriting – #GSPaper3 | 19th Sept 2025

👉 What are Protein Language Models (pLMs)? Discuss how they help in understanding protein structure and function.
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#DailyUPSCPrelimsMCQs – #InternationalRelations | 19th Sept 2025

Friday is for International Relations in our subject-wise daily series.
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✅ IMF – quota-based funding vs. misconceptions
✅ Rohingya Refugees – UNHCR data, Cox’s Bazar camps
✅ Zamfara (Nigeria) – map-based IR & security hotspots
✅ NATO – Washington Treaty, UN Charter link, founding members
✅ World Bank Reports – separating WDR, GEP, PSP from IMF reports
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India’s Tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites has grown from 62 to 69 with the addition of seven stunning natural sites:
✅ Deccan Traps (Maharashtra)
✅ St. Mary’s Island Basalt Columns (Karnataka)
✅ Meghalayan Caves (Meghalaya)
✅ Naga Hill Ophiolite (Nagaland)
✅ Erra Matti Dibbalu Red Sand Dunes (Andhra Pradesh)
✅ Tirumala Hills (Andhra Pradesh)
✅ Varkala Cliffs (Kerala)

With this, India now has 49 cultural, 17 natural, and 3 mixed heritage properties in UNESCO’s Tentative List 🌏