1. Uruguay Legalises Euthanasia
⚖️ Uruguay Becomes First Predominantly Catholic Latin American Country to Legalise Euthanasia 🇺🇾
📌 Key Highlights:
The law enables seriously ill patients to seek medical assistance to end their lives under strict medical and ethical conditions.
⚕️ Key Provisions of the Law
- 🧑⚕️ Performed only by healthcare professionals — ensuring medical oversight.
- Assisted suicide (self-administration of lethal medication) remains illegal.
- ⏳ No fixed life expectancy limit or waiting period — broader eligibility than in most countries
2. Indian Wolf Likely to Become a New Species
🐺 Indian Wolf Likely to Become a New Species
📌 Key Highlights:
- The Indian Wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) is a shy and rare animal living in scrublands and grasslands of India and Pakistan.
- Its population has dropped to about 3,000 making it highly vulnerable.
- The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) is likely to classify it as a new species because it has the oldest living wolf lineage in the world.
3. India Launches Its Largest Dredger
🚢 India Launches Its Largest Dredger — Dredge Godavari
📌 Key Highlights:
- 🛠️ Built at: Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL)
- 🚢 Owner: Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCIL), Visakhapatnam
- 👤 Launched by: M. Angamuthu (Chairman, DCIL)
🇮🇳 Significance: India’s largest dredger
📍 Use Case: Dredging operations to enhance port efficiency and maritime trade
📝 MCQ for Revision
India’s largest dredger, Dredge Godavari, was launched at which shipyard?
4. Women Form 49% of Hospital Admissions under AB-PMJAY
🏥 Women Form 49% of Hospital Admissions under AB-PMJAY 📌 Key Highlights:
💉 Most availed treatment: Haemodialysis (14%)
📌 About AB-PMJAY
- 🚀 Launched: 2018
- 🛡️ Coverage: ₹5 lakh per family per year
- 🌎 Status: One of the world’s largest health insurance schemes
- 🏛️ Coverage footprint: 35 States/UTs onboard (Odisha & Delhi added recently; West Bengal not onboard)
- Hospitals empanelled: 31,005 (55% public, 45% private)
🧑🤝🧑 Beneficiary families covered:
15.14 crore under PMJAY
8.57 crore under State schemes
🏥 Hospital admissions so far: 9.19 crore
💰 Treatments worth: ₹1,29,386 crore
🆔 Ayushman Cards issued: 40.45 crore
5. Jyothi Surekha Vennam Creates History
🏹 Jyothi Surekha Vennam Creates History
📌 Key Highlights:
- 🥇 First Indian woman compound archer to win a World Cup Final medal
- 📍 Event held in Nanjing, China
- 🎯 Won bronze vs Ella Gibson (Great Britain)
6. Samudra Shakti 2025 Maritime Exercise
⚓ India and Indonesia Conduct 5th Edition of ‘Samudra Shakti 2025’ Maritime Exercise at Visakhapatna 🇮🇳 🇮🇩
📌 Key Highlights:
- Type: Biennial Maritime Exercise
- Indian Navy Asset: INS Kavaratti — an Anti-Submarine Warfare Corvette
- 🚢 Indonesian Navy Asset: KRI John Lie — a Corvette equipped with an integral helicopter 🚁
- Host Command: Eastern Naval Command, Indian Navy
- Reinforces the ”Security and Growth for All in the Region” (SAGAR) vision of India.
7. What is SAIEE 2021–25?
📌 Key Highlights:
- SAIEE stands for Synchronous All-India Elephant Estimation (2021–25).
- It is India’s latest nationwide programme to estimate the population, distribution, and habitat condition of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus)
📊 What Did SAIEE Reveal?
- Elephant population found: 22,446
- SAIEE 2021–25 is India’s newest and most scientific nationwide elephant population estimation exercise
8. Charan Boro Sworn in as Assam Minister
📰 Charan Boro Sworn in as Assam Minister
📌 Key Highlights:
- 🏛️ Leader: Charan Boro (BPF)
- 🌐 Position: 19th Minister in Assam Cabinet
- 👤 Sworn in by: Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya
- 🏛️ Cabinet Head: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
- 📍 Constituency: Majbat, Assam
9. BrahMos Missiles: Symbol of India’s Defence Strength
🛰️ BrahMos Missiles: Symbol of India’s Defence Strength
📌 Key Highlights:
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh along with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, commissioned the first batch of BrahMos missiles produced at the Lucknow unit of BrahMos Aerospace Ltd.
- 🏭 Location: BrahMos Aerospace unit, Lucknow
- 💰 Plant Cost: ₹380 crore (inaugurated May 2025)
- 🚀 Production Capacity: ~100 missiles per year
- 🛡️ For: Indian Army, Navy & Air Force
- 📈 Economic Impact: ₹3,000 crore turnover + ₹500 crore GST revenue
10. 35th National Energy Conservation Awards 2025
⚡ 35th National Energy Conservation Awards 2025 Announced 🌱
📌 Key Highlights:
- 📍 Venue: Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi
- 👤 Chief Guest: President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu
- 🏆 Established: 1991
- 🌿 Objective: Encourage adoption of energy-efficient technologies and practices.
