NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||09-10/10/2025.

 

NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||09-10/10/2025.

THURSDAY & FRIDAY| VOL—IV/2025/OCTOBER/598

OPINIONATED, FOR FREE CIRCULATION.

Karwa Chauth: It is a festival where married women fast from sunrise to moonrise for the long life and good health of their husbands. They break their fast after seeing the moon and their husband’s face.

Timing - Oct 09, 10:54 pm to Oct 10, 7:39 pm

INDIA: (GOI, SWARAJYA, VISHWAMITRA, HINDU POST, INDIA TODAY).

The Minister of Labour and Employment Mansukh Mandaviya informed that India has been conferred with the outstanding achievement in social security award 2025 by the International Social Security Association.

The United Kingdom (UK) will sell some $468 million worth of missiles to India, both governments announced today during UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s visit to New Delhi. WAS IT NEEDED??

In Bihar, Despite several rounds of meetings, no final decision has been made yet on how the seats will be distributed in the Opposition.  The Election Commission has deployed 824 flying squads in Bihar to ensure speedy redressal of complaints within 100 minutes.

Manipur celebrates Mera Hou Chongba, a festival symbolizing Hill-Valley unity, with tribal village chiefs gathering at the Manipur Royal Palace in Imphal.  Led by King Maharaja Sanajaoba Leishemba, the festival features a ritual march to Kangla, traditional ceremonies, exchange of gifts, cultural dances, and a grand feast.

India achieved record solar and wind power generation in H1 2025, cutting power sector emissions by 24 million tonnes, according to Ember. Solar output rose 25%, reaching 9.2% of total electricity, while wind power grew 29% to 5.1%.

The NAKSHA Programme, launched under the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP), aims to modernise urban land governance by using geospatial mapping, GNSS, and Web-GIS technologies to create transparent, accurate, and accessible urban land records.

The Odisha government will set up a digital library named Gyana Yagnya Mandap at the site of the old Raghunandan Library in Puri to preserve rare records of the Jagannath Temple, including the Madala Panji, ritual documents, and palm-leaf manuscripts.

Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi reached New Delhi yesterday on a weeklong visit to India.  External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in a social media post that the Indian side is looking forward to discussions with him on bilateral relations and regional issues.  This is the first ministerial-level visit to India since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan in August 2021.

WORLD: (REUTER, AP, AFP, BLOOMBERG, CNN, WP)

The 2025 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai, a Hungarian novelist who said his dark and difficult novels aim to examine reality “to the point of madness.”

Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a peace plan that could pave the way to ending their two-year war. The initial terms include a hostage deal and partial Israeli troop withdrawal in Gaza; Trump announced on social media yesterday. I think—after Nobel Peace Prize winner is declared today—the situation may change.

Global trade this year has been stronger than expected following U.S. tariffs, but its growth will slow sharply in 2026, the WTO estimated in a report published yesterday. The impact of U.S. tariffs was delayed by countries stockpiling goods before tariffs hit and growing trade related to artificial intelligence (AI), as well as increased trade among countries outside the United States. WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala praised “the rules-based multilateral trading system” for cushioning the tariffs’ impact, but warned that continued policy uncertainty “doesn’t mean we are home free.”

EU floats steel tariff. European Union (EU) leadership announced a proposal yesterday for a 50 percent tariff on steel and lower quotas for duty-free steel imports. The measures respond to both an influx of cheap Chinese steel and Trump’s 50 percent steel tariffs.

Germany’s cabinet approved a draft law yesterday that would allow police to shoot down rogue drones. The legislation is awaiting parliamentary approval.

The Chinese government added five rare earth elements and multiple types of mineral processing equipment to its export control list, tightening its restrictions over the materials three weeks before Trump is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping about trade.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have detained nine United Nations employees, bringing the total number of UN workers seized in Houthi-held territory since 2021 to fifty-three, a UN spokesperson said late Monday.

Violent clashes between the law enforcement officials and members of a radical Islamist party left dozens injured yesterday in Lahore, Pakistan over the issue of an anti-Israel protest. Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan has called for an anti-Israel demonstration outside the US embassy in Islamabad.

In Pakistan, at least seven terrorists affiliated with the banned terror group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan were killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Pakistani Army Major was also killed during the operation yesterday.

Russia plans to expand business, anti-narcotics, and counterterrorism cooperation with Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said as a Taliban delegation visited Moscow yesterday. He also called military deployments by “extra-regional players” in Afghanistan unacceptable, indirectly referencing Trump’s suggestion last month that the United States retake control of Bagram Air Base—a proposal the Taliban rejected.

The country’s industrial output fell sharply in August to levels unseen since 2005, according to government data released yesterday. Car industry production fell 18.5 percent from July to August. Germany’s auto sector has struggled to compete with Chinese rivals, withstand U.S. tariffs, and manage the transition to electric vehicles. Chancellor Friedrich Merz will meet with auto executives tomorrow to discuss industry challenges.

Annual semiconductor investment in the United States is expected to outpace that in China, South Korea, and Taiwan beginning in 2027, according to a forecast from industry group SEMI. Its analysts credited U.S. policies for encouraging more domestic chip manufacturing and surging chip demand driven by artificial intelligence (AI).

 

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a molecular architecture that can pack large amounts of space into small structures. The prize committee said that the metal-organic frameworks “can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions”—processes that can help address climate change.

PM  launched the Mumbai One mobile app, India’s first integrated common mobility platform, allowing commuters in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region to book a single QR-based digital ticket for travel across Metro, Monorail, buses, and local trains.  The app integrates 11 public transport operators, supports cashless and contactless transactions, features a multimodal journey planner, and is hosted on a MeitY-compliant Google Cloud Platform.

The Government of India has expanded the e-NAM platform by adding 9 new commodities, raising the total tradable agricultural commodities to 247. This move aims to provide farmers and traders with a more transparent, competitive digital marketplace that connects markets nationwide.

Kalam Labs, a stratospheric aerial robotics start-up based in Lucknow, is preparing for a ground breaking test flight aimed at reaching an altitude of 30,000 metres above mean sea level. The venture, founded by Ahmad Faraaz along with former BITS Pilani classmates Sashakt Tripathi and Harshit Awasthi, is developing advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology for military applications.

 

 

TERROISM, CRIME & PUNISHMENT:

Two scooters parked in the congested Mishri Bazar near a mosque here exploded seconds apart on Wednesday evening, injuring half a dozen people and damaging nearby shops. The blasts occurred  around 7:30 pm in the crowded Moolganj area, Kanpur.

 

MISHAPS: -

In Andhra Pradesh, at least six workers were killed and two injured in an explosion at a fireworks manufacturing unit at Rayavaram mandal in Dr B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema district.

 

WILD LIFE, ENVIRONMENT: -

The Wildlife Week 2025 celebrations in Dehradun brought into light India’s renewed focus on encouraging harmony between humans and wildlife. Union Minister Bhupender Yadav led the event at the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy.

The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has recently inaugurated India’s first dedicated Animal Birth Control (ABC) Training Centre in Jarhara. This initiative aims to enhance the management and sterilisation of street dogs across the city and beyond.

India will unveil its first-ever Red List of Endangered Species at the upcoming IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025, to be held in Abu Dhabi from October 9-15. This marks a major milestone in India’s conservation efforts.

Tamil Nadu government allocated ₹1 crore for conserving four lesser-known endangered species. The move aims to protect the lion-tailed macaque, Madras hedgehog, striped hyena, and hump-headed mahseer.

 

GAMES & SPORTS: -

ICC Women World Cup 2025 #  31 ODIs

INDW: 251(49.5) Vs  RSAW: 252/7(48.5)

South Africa Women won by 3 wkts

PLAYER OF THE MATCH

Nadine de Klerk

DAS KAPITAL:

An AI-fuelled bubble in global markets could burst, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a risk monitoring body at the Bank of England each warned yesterday.

US pharma giant Eli Lilly will invest $1 billion in Telangana to expand its manufacturing and global medicine supply capacity in Hyderabad.

 

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WHAT IS NEXT:

Today, Vietnam’s Communist Party chief begins a trip to North Korea.

Today, Seychelles begins its presidential election runoff.

Tomorrow, G20 trade ministers meet in South Africa.

Nobel Peace Prize to be announced today. All eyes are fixed on Donald Trump...338 candidates are  in the fray....  some prominent names believed to be making the rounds are Trump,  Pope Francis, Imran Khan, Elon Musk and Anwar Ibrahim...

 

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