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Posted 06 Sep 2025

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The Angikaar 2025 campaign, launched under PMAY-U 2.0, aims to promote awareness and last-mile outreach for providing all-weather pucca houses to eligible urban households, supporting 'Housing for All.'

Angikaar 2025 campaign

The Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs launched the Angikaar 2025 campaign under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban 2.0 (PMAY-U 2.0).

  • PMAY-U 2.0 was launched in 2024 to provide all-weather pucca houses to all eligible urban households with the vision of ‘Housing for All’.

About Angikaar 2025 campaign

  • It is a 2-month last-mile outreach campaign to create awareness about PMAY-U 2.0
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  • PMAY-U 2.0
  • Angikaar 2025

Unified Payments Interface (UPI)

NPCI Raised Per-UPI Transaction Limit to Rs 5 Lakh and Cumulative Limit for 24 hrs to Rs 10 Lakh.

  • Applicability: Only to Person-to-Merchant (P2M) transactions with verified merchants.
  • Exemption: Person-to-Person (P2P) transaction limits will remain the same i.e. at Rs 1 lakh per day.

About UPI

  • It is an instant payment system and protocol developed by NPCI in the year 2016.
  • Uniqueness:
    • Immediate money transfer through mobile device round the clock 24*7 and 365 days.
      • NPCI was established under Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007.
    • Single Click 2 Factor Authentication.
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  • UPI
  • NPCI

WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines

WHO published an update to its Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) adding new treatments for cancers, diabetes and obesity.

About WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines

  • The List acts like a register of minimum medicine needs for every health-care system.
  • It aims at ensuring all-time availability of high priority drugs for all people, guiding physicians to evidence-based and rational prescribing.
  • It is updated every two years by the Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential Medicines.
  • The first Essential Medicines List was published in 1977.
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  • WHO
  • Essential Medicines

Beas River

Swollen Beas River floods Areas in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh

  • The river overflowed, forcing Bhakra Beas Management Board to release excess water from Pong dam.

About Beas River 

  • Origin: Rises at Beas Kund, southern face of Rohtang Pass (Kullu).
  • Course: Flows 470 km before joining Sutlej at Harike, Punjab. 
  • Tributaries: Bain, Banganga, Luni and Uhal. 
  • Landforms: It forms the valleys of Kullu and Kangra.
  • Ancient name : Vipasha (sanskrit)
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  • Beas River
  • Pong dam

Taliban Sanctions Committee (TSC)

Taliban foreign minister’s India visit called off due to a travel ban imposed under UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions.

About Taliban Sanctions Committee (TSC)

  • Established: In 2011, when UNSC split the earlier “1267 Committee” into two – one for Al-Qaeda (1267/1989) and one specifically for the Taliban (1988).
  • Key Mandate: Oversees sanctions against individuals, groups, and entities associated with the Taliban in relation to the situation in Afghanistan.
  • Members: comprises all 15 members of the Security Council.
  • Current Chair: Pakistan
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  • UN Security Council (UNSC)
  • Taliban Sanctions Committee (TSC)

SWIFT Messaging Network

Indian banks have accelerated adoption of the SWIFT messaging framework, ISO 20022.

  • The ISO 20022 is an open global standard for financial information.

About SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication)

  • Genesis: Founded in 1973 by 239 banks from 15 countries.
  • Purpose: To streamline and secure cross-border financial communication.
    • It is a secure messaging network facilitating global financial transactions between over 11,000 institutions across 200 countries. 
  • Headquarter:  Belgium.
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  • SWIFT
  • SWIFT Messaging Network

Functional Genomics

Functional genomics is improving cancer treatment decisions.

  • It reinforces cancer therapy by illustrating how genetic variations operate within cells, aiding in the identification of harmful or benign mutations.

About Functional Genomics           

  • It is the study of how the genome and its products, including RNA and proteins, function and interact to affect different biological processes.
    • The genome of an organism is the complete genetic information present in the cell of an organism.
  • Purpose: To understand the relationship between genotype and phenotype.
    • Phenotype refers to an individual’s observable traits, such as height, eye color and blood type.   
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  • Functional Genomics
  • Genomics

MPOX (Monkeypox)

WHO chief says mpox outbreak in Africa is no longer a global health emergency. 

About Mpox

  • Type: Viral zoonotic disease caused by Monkeypox virus (Orthopoxvirus genus).
  • Transmission: Close contact with infected people, animals, or contaminated objects.
  • Types of Mpox:
    • Clade I: Found in Central Africa; usually more severe, but recent outbreaks less deadly.
    • Clade II: Found in East Africa; cause of the global outbreak since 2022; generally milder and less fatal.
  • Incubation Period: 5–21 days.
  • Symptoms: Fever, headache, muscle aches, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes.
  • Global Concern: Declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by WHO in 2022.
  • There is no proven treatment for Mpox.
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  • Monkeypox
  • MPOX
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