UPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS

India’s energy transition has reached a critical juncture. Despite rapid expansion of renewable energy, challenges such as baseload power deficits, grid instability, and deep decarbonisation requirements have brought nuclear energy back to the centre of policy discourse.

Recently, ISRO stated that India's first solar observatory, Aditya-L1, played a key role in helping scientists understand why the most powerful solar storm in more than two decades, expected to hit Earth in May 2024, was behaving so unusually.

The Government of India has announced that the 2027 Census will be conducted entirely through digital means, marking a historic technological shift in India’s decennial population-counting exercise.

Recently, researchers at the University of Oxford reported the discovery of a cosmic filament approximately 50 million light-years long, strung by at least 14 galaxies.

The world is rapidly moving toward advanced digital infrastructure, yet millions of people still live in areas where traditional fiber, cable, or mobile-tower–based internet cannot reach.

Meta is in ongoing discussions with Google to use its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).

Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) is a key pillar of modern climate strategy. Its main goals are: Reducing CO₂ emissions from major point sources (thermal power plants, steel, cement, chemical industries)

Food irradiation is a safe, scientifically validated food-processing technology in which food items are exposed to controlled amounts of ionizing radiation to preserve them. The objective is to enhance food safety, increase shelf life, and control pests and pathogens.

Cloudflare has emerged as one of the most widely used platforms for website security, performance enhancement, and traffic optimisation. Understanding its role is essential due to its impact on global internet stability, cybersecurity, and digital business operations.

The Department of Posts has released a draft amendment to the Post Office Act, 2023 proposing the creation of an interoperable, standardised, and user-centric digital addressing system known as DHRUVA — Digital Hub for Reference and Unique Virtual Address.