UPSC Daily Current Affairs| One Liners 07-11-2025

One Liners 07-11-2025

Polity & Governance

World Cooperative Monitor Report

Prime Minister congratulates Amul and IFFCO for securing the 1st and 2nd ranks in the global ranking for cooperatives.

• It is the only report of its kind collecting annual quantitative data on the global cooperative movement.
• Designed to – Collect robust economic, organizational, and social data about cooperatives worldwide.
• Released by – International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE).

2 New Specialised Cadres

CAG plans to create two new cadres for more centralisation.

• Approved by – Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).
• 2 new cadres within – Indian Audit and Accounts Department (IA&AD)
  • Central Revenue Audit (CRA) Cadre.
  • Central Expenditure Audit (CEA) Cadre.
• Effect from – 1^st January 2026,
• Aim – To build deeper professional expertise and further improve the quality of audit of Central Government finances.
• Current status – At present, the audit of Central receipts and expenditure is undertaken by multiple offices with cadre control dispersed across multiple State Civil Audit offices leading to fragmentation.
• Advantages –
  • The new cadres will consolidate over 4,000 audit professionals out of the total strength of CAG at 42,000.
  • This measure will also help reduce dependence on deployment and manage manpower in a more flexible manner.

International Relations and Issues

QS World University Rankings: Asia 2026

Science and Technology

National Geo Platform

National Geospatial Policy, 2022, Survey of India (SoI), has entered into an agreement with C.E. Info Systems Pvt. Ltd.

• Nodal ministry – Ministry of Science & Technology.
• Objectives – To build an integrated and collaborative ecosystem for geospatial data dissemination.
• To serve as a robust and scalable system for standardizing, sharing, and managing foundational geospatial datasets — including Ortho-Rectified Imagery, Digital Elevation Models (DEM), Administrative Boundaries, Geodetic Reference Frame, and Geographical Names.
• Key components – Geospatial Data integration & dissemination System, Integrated Geospatial Application Interface (IGAI), and a Spatial Data Registry (SDR) for metadata management.

Economy

Fiscal Deficit

The Centre's fiscal deficit stood at 36.5% of the full-year target at the end of the 1^st half of FY26, according to data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA).

• Fiscal deficit, the condition when the expenditure of the government exceeds its revenue in a year, is the difference between the two.
• In either case, the income figure includes only taxes and other revenues and excludes money borrowed to make up the shortfall.
• Fiscal deficit = Total revenue generated — Total expenditure.

Science

Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS)

Flight operations at Delhi Airport are experiencing delays due to a technical issue in the Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS), which supports Air Traffic Control data.

• AMSS – AMSS is the sole provider of Indian Meteorological data to Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunications Network (AFTN) for Aviation.
• It is the backbone for observational data collection and distribution within India.
• From observatory data is collected by AMSS High Speed Data Terminal (HSDT), locally developed web portals of AMSS, Email, Telephone etc.
• 6 AMSS in India – Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Guwahati and Nagpur.

Index

India’s 1^st digital Census

• Conducted under – Census Act, 1948 and the Census Rules, 1990.
• It will be completed in 2 phases –
  • The house listing and housing operations – Total 30 questions on housing amenities will be asked, will be held in select areas across the country from November 10 to 30.
  • The population enumeration – It will also count the population by caste for the 1^st time in Independent India.
• Time span – Both phases usually span a period of 11 months from April 1 to February 28 the following year.
• Last census was conducted in – 2010 and 2011.

2 Mobile Applications for Digital Population Census

• Launched by – Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
• 2 applications –
  • Digital Layout Map (DLM)
    • World’s largest data collection exercise, into a digital operation.
    • Record – Building coordinates, the names of localities, roads or streets, building numbers, building names, building type, building use, landmarks, number of floors, and number of Census houses.
  • Census 2027-Houselist
    • Aim – To enhance the speed, accuracy, and reliability of the house listing and housing census operations, laying a strong foundation for the upcoming population enumeration phase.
  • Compatible with – Both Android and Apple phones.

Miscellaneous

1^st Indian-American Muslim Mayor

• Elected mayor of New York City – Zohran Mamdani.
• He is a 34-year-old state lawmaker, city's youngest mayor in more than a century.

Bihar Kokila Sharda Sinha ji

Prime Minister pays tribute to Bihar Kokila Sharda Sinha ji.

• She is recognised as one of the greatest voices in Indian folk music.
• Her devotional tracks dedicated to the Chhath Mahaparva became an inseparable part of Bihar’s cultural fabric.
• Recorded over – 1,500 songs in multiple regional languages and brought Bihar’s folk traditions to national and global audiences.
• Awards – Padma Shri (1991), Padma Bhushan (2018), and, posthumously, the Padma Vibhushan (2025) – India’s 2^nd-highest civilian award.