Date: October 12

• As Seen: World Arthritis Day.
• 2025 Theme: “Achieve Your Dreams”
• Purpose: To create awareness about arthritis, how it affects the everyday life and the significance of early diagnosis and treatment.

Date: October 13

• As It Seems: International Day of Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR).
• Theme of 2025: Fund Resilience, Not Disasters.
• Purpose: To shine the light on the global activities in disaster risk reduction, disaster risk saving lives and minimizing economic and health losses associated with occurrence of natural hazards.

• Launch Details:
  • Re-introduced at Purple Fest, Goa.
  • Holding at Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
• Purpose:
  • Make digital services more accessible to the disabled.
  • Acts as a single point centre where government programs, scholarships, employment opportunities, grievance redressal and government accessibility are made.

• IUCN Status Change:
  • Changing to Least Concern.
  • Conservation efforts have also led to a rise in population by about 28 percent since 1970s.
• Ecological Importance:
  • Tropical marine ecosystems Keystone species.
  • Conserve coral reefs and seagrass meadows and help in biodiversity.
  • Significant cultural, religious, and economic functions at the coasts.

Sharp Rise in Delinquencies:

• Microfinance non-performing loans (PAR 30+) increased to 6.2% in 2024-25 compared to 2.1% in 2023-24 which shows that the sector is becoming more stressed.

Severe Non-Performing Trend:

• The number of loans outstanding by 90+ days (serious NPAs) rose to 4.8 percent in the same period.