5 published UPSC current-affairs articles
India is reinforcing nuclear power as a secure, sustainable and future ready foundation of national development with the help of the SHANTI Act , 2025, Nuclear Energy Mission for Viksit Bharat and indigenous technology. Nuclear power plants generate energy from heat produced in a well controlled process called nuclear fission. The heat boils water, and the steam turns a turbine coupled to a generator.
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) delivered INS Mangrol to the Indian Navy on 21 August 2026. It is the third of eight Anti Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Crafts (ASW SWCs) being indigenously designed and constructed by CSL. Type: Anti Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC).
The National Horticulture Board (NHB) has amended the guidelines for the development of Commercial Horticulture through Production and Post Harvest Management of Horticulture Crops scheme to ensure equitable distribution of government assistance. Key Amendments by the National Horticulture Board (NHB) Expanded definition of ‘family’: The revised definition of family brings within its ambit the subsidy applicant’s spouse, father, mother, sons and daughters.
India is looking to bring five additional nuclear reactors online in this decade and to increase its nuclear capacity to 100 GW by 2047. Installed Capacity: India has 25 active nuclear reactors with a total capacity of 8.7 gigawatt electric (GWe). Nuclear power reactors in the country generated 56,681 million units of energy in 2024 25.
Syllabus: GS2/ Governance, GS3/ Infrastructure A recent Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) audit of railway passenger amenities for 2019 20 to 2023 24 found major deficiencies in basic facilities, drinking water quality, implementation of passenger amenity works and monitoring mechanisms. The Railway Board introduced Minimum Essential Amenities (MEA) in 2003, with the norms revised in 2018.