UPSC Daily Current Affairs| One Liners 11-09-2025

One Liners 11-09-2025

History, Art and Culture

Adi Sanskriti

• It is a digital learning platform for tribal artforms.

• Launched by – Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

• Aim – To preserve the wisdom of every tribal song, story, practices, creating a platform for learning, progress, & livelihood.

• 3 components

  • Adi Vishwavidyalaya (Digital Tribal Art Academy)

  • Adi Sampada (Socio-Cultural Repository)

  • Adi Haat (Online marketplace)

Social Issues

World Suicide Prevention Day

• Observed on – 10^th September

• Established in – 2003 in conjunction with World Health Organisation (WHO).

• Organized by – International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP).

• Aim – To raise awareness around the globe that suicide can be prevented.

• Theme for 2024-26 – ‘Changing the Narrative on Suicide’.

Digital Life Certificate (DLC) Campaign 4.0

• It is the largest-ever outreach initiative for pensioners, targeting 2 crore DLCs.

• Conduct from – 1^st to 30^th November 2025 by Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare (DoPPW).

• Aim – To emphasis on face authentication technology, ensuring universal coverage and ease of living for pensioners.

• Coverage – To setup camps at 1600 districts and sub-divisional headquarters.

• Doorstep services for - very senior and differently-abled pensioners.

National Workshop on ‘The National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

• It is a part of the NITI–State workshop series under the State Support Mission.

• Organised by – NITI Aayog, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme.

• Aim – To highlight India’s MPI Journey and the technical methodology behind calculating the MPI.

Economy

Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM)

Cabinet approves construction of 4-lane greenfield access-controlled Mokama-Munger section of the Buxar-Bhagalpur High-Speed Corridor in Bihar on Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM).

Environment

48^th Annual Conference on Oceans Law & Policy (COLP48)

For the first time, India hosted COLP48 in nearly 50 years.

• Held in – New Delhi.

• Organised by – Stockton Center for International Law, U.S. Naval War College and Gujarat Maritime University, with Ministry of Earth Sciences.

• Theme – “Developing World Approaches to Ocean Governance: Perspectives from the Indian Ocean Rim”.

• 5 priority areas

  • Ensuring livelihood and food security.

  • Deepening regional cooperation.

  • Integrating traditional knowledge and participatory governance.

  • Promoting climate resilience and ecosystem-based approaches.

  • Mobilising innovative finance and building capacity.

Science

Regional Testing Laboratory (RTL)

• Built at – Nashik by Central Power Research Institute (CPRI).

• Aim – To reduce the turnaround time for testing and certification, thereby strengthening the quality assurance ecosystem and facilitating faster procurement cycles by utilities.

• Testing services for – A wide range of electrical and power equipment such as Transformers, Energy Meters, Smart Meters, and Transformer Oil.

Central Power Research Institute (CPRI)

• Established in – 1960, by the Government of India.

• Autonomous Society in – 1978 under Ministry of Power.

• Head office – Bengaluru

• Regional testing laboratories – Noida, Kolkata, Guwahati & Nashik.

• Objectives – To undertake and sponsor R&D projects in the fields of generation, transmission, distribution and operation of electricity supply systems.

• Provide centralized research and testing facilities for evaluation of electrical materials.

• Certification of rating and performance to ensure availability of quality equipment.

Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM)

• PAM – It is a rare but life-threatening central nervous system infection.

• Caused by – Naegleria fowleri, sometimes called the “brain-eating amoeba”.

• Causal agents – Still water, such as lakes and rivers, hot bore water, long surface pipes, water hoses and poorly maintained swimming pools, wading pools or spas.

• Symptoms – Neck stiffness, confusion, hallucinations, loss of balance, seizures, drowsiness and coma.

• No standard treatment – A rapid and catastrophic destruction of brain tissue caused to death in under 10 days.

Naegleria Fowleri - “Brain-Eating Amoeba”

• It is a free-living amoeba.

• Feed on – Bacteria.

• Habitat – Warm water, freshwater areas and damp soil.

• Mechanism – Once in the brain, however, it mistakes neurons and glial cells for food.

• It uses small projections called amoebostomes, that literally bite into host cells, ingesting their contents piece by piece.

• It also releases enzymes and toxins in the form of proteases, phospholipases, and pore-forming proteins that dissolve tissue and kill the host cells.

• It actively consumes living neural cells as a source of nutrients.

• It feeds, multiplies and its proliferation triggers a profound inflammatory response in the host’s body.