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Quiz Current Affairs 2025-26 February 2025

September 07, 2025
field of trade.
  • This program will divert attention to extension on agricultural commodities and will provide diversity to provide more opportunities in terms of providing farmers and traders to rely on the digital trading system.
  • Directorate of marketing and inspection (DMI) has developed tradable parameters on 10 other agricultural commodities.
  • DMI has developed tradable parameters against 221 agricultural products and the next 10 other products are by the way going to form the list to 231 commodities.

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    Top 50 top tourist areas -Challenge Mode

     

    • The Union Budget has also allotted, the development of the top 50 tourist destinations in the country in coordination with State governments in a mode of challenge.
    • The States will also undertake the role of availing land in meeting the key developments of infrastructures.
    • These destinations will have hotels incorporated to the Harmonised Master List (HML) of infrastructure projects.
    • The country will also ease the e-visa infrastructure and offer visa fee exemptions to certain groups of tourists in order to welcome the international travelers in the country.
    • Of particular interest will be the destinations concerning life and time of Lord Buddha.

     

    DDP 2024 Domestic Defense Production

     

    • Significant rise has been observed in the defence budget of the country which had been at 2,53,346 crore in 2013-14 and is now increased to 6,21,940.85 crore in 2024-25.
    • Domestically produced defence products in India in FY 2023-24 were 1.27 lakh crore and was the highest.
    • This is by nearly 174 percent change of 46429 crore in 2014-15.
    • India has made a track record on realising a target of 1.75 lakh crore in the current fiscal year defence production.
    • The long-term goal of India is to achieve 3 lakh crore production of defence by 2029 and continue to position itself as a major global defence manufacturing base.
    • With the growth of the defence export by India, the harshly swelled from 1941 crore in Financial Year (FY) 2014-15 to 21083 crore in FY 2023-24.
    • Defence exports registered an increase of 32.5 per cent as compared to last fiscal year 2022-23 which was recorded at 15,920 crore.
    • In 2023-24 India sold its products to USA number one, followed by France and then Armenia as the main destinations of its defence exports.

     

    South Coast Railway Zone

     

    • The ex post facto of the decision to form new South Coast Railway Zone was approved by the Union Cabinet.
    • The Prime Minister laid foundation of the headquarters of the South Coast Railway at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
    • The SCoR zone shall be the 18 th zone of the Indian Railways.

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