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Quiz Current Affairs 2025-26 February 2025

September 07, 2025
  • The Civil Liability Act of 2010 on Nuclear Damage puts the responsibility of any nuclear accident on the operator of the plant and places a cap on total liability on the operator.
  • Yet it gives the operator legal rights to the supplier of reactor without a cap on the liability of supplier.
  • India is already in process towards increasing its nuclear power capacity of the current 8180 MW to 22480 by 2031-2032.

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    Watershed yatra 2025

     

    • The Rural Development Union Minister has initiated mass outreach campaign of Watershed Yatra at the national scale.
    • It will be done to elicit the involvement of the people and also develop the awareness regarding the Watershed Development activities implemented under the Watershed Development Component of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (WDC-PMKSY 2.0) in the project villages.
    • Approximately 800 Gram Panchayats and over one lakh population have attended the rolled out program of Watershed Yatra.

     

    Child road safety emergency

     

    • The roadmap proposes national plans to reduce child and adolescent deaths on the road launched on February 4, through UNICEF and WHO Collaborating Centre for Injury Prevention and Safety at NIMHANS.
    • It shows disturbing statistics of road traffic injuries (RTIs) in children.
    • The non communicable disease RTIs has become the key cause of death in children and adolescents in India and they form 10 percent of the death related to the road crashes.
    • As much as approximately 45 children below the age of 18 years are killed every day in road accidents within the country.
    • The death toll of people in this age group topped 16,443 in 2022 alone, although the real mortality rate could have been overestimated by 20 percent, because of regions that are underreported.
    • It is estimated that with 198,236 lost lives, an average of 133 children and adolescents die in road crashes in-between 2011 and 2022.
    • Notably, 3 out of 4 of these deaths happened in the case of 14- to 17-year-olds and the figures have increased more than two times during the last 10 years in the same segment.

     

    SARAT Version 2

     

    • The ministry of Earth Sciences has released the newer version 2 of Search and Rescue Aid Tool (SARAT).
    • It provides the Indian search and rescue agencies with superior performance, the more rapid response time and more search-and- rescue operation success.
    • It is a satellite distress communication unit that helps ships, aircraft and people in remote or dangerous locations of the sea.

     

    E-NAM Portal extension

     

    • In a bid to take the e-NAM idea further, the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has chosen to extend the

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