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President Droupadi Murmu Offers Prayers at Sabarimala Temple

October 23, 2025
  • Sabarimala, Kerala — October 22: President Droupadi Murmu offered prayers at the Lord Ayyappa Temple in Sabarimala, becoming the first woman President of India to do so. This marks only the second presidential visit to the shrine since V. V. Giri’s pilgrimage in the 1970s.

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NHAI to Deploy Network Survey Vehicles Across 20,000 km of National Highways

October 23, 2025

 

  • The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will deploy Network Survey Vehicles (NSVs) across 23 states, covering a total of 20,933 km of National Highways. The initiative aims to enhance road safety, maintenance, and asset management through advanced data collection and analysis.

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MeitY Proposes IT Rules to Label and Trace AI-Generated and Deepfake Content

October 23, 2025

 

  • The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has released draft amendments to the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, introducing mandatory requirements for social media platforms to label and trace AI-generated and deepfake content. The move aims to curb misinformation, impersonation, and manipulation caused by synthetic media.

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India Reopens Full Embassy in Kabul

October 23, 2025

 

  • India has reopened its full-fledged embassy in Kabul, marking its first complete diplomatic return to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021. The move reflects New Delhi’s effort to safeguard its strategic and developmental interests while countering Chinese and Pakistani influence in the region.

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Mosquitoes Found in Iceland for the First Time

October 23, 2025

 

  • For the first time, mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland, ending its status as one of the world’s few mosquito-free regions. The finding was confirmed by Matthias Alfredsson, an entomologist at the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, who identified the species as Culiseta annulata. With this, Antarctica is now the only mosquito-free region on Earth.

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