🔆 PoSH Act, 2013 | Supreme Court Ruling

✅ Why in News: SC expanded the ambit of the PoSH Act (Sohail Malik case)
✅ Key Ruling: A woman can file a sexual harassment complaint with the ICC of her own workplace, even if the accused belongs to a different organisation
✅ Impact: ICC of the aggrieved woman’s workplace can exercise jurisdiction over outsiders

📍 About PoSH Act, 2013
✅ Originated from Vishakha Guidelines (1997)
✅ Protects all women at workplaces (employed or not, including domestic workers)
✅ Covers unwelcome sexually coloured behaviour creating hostile work environment
✅ Wide definition of workplace: Govt, private, NGOs, hospitals, houses & work-related travel

📍 Redressal Mechanism
✅ Internal Complaints Committee (ICC): Mandatory in workplaces with >10 employees
✅ Local Committee (LC): For workplaces without ICC

📍 Penalties
✅ Monetary fine, disciplinary action or termination, based on severity

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🔆 Yellow Line

📍 What is the Yellow Line?
✅ The new de facto border referenced by Israel’s military chief
✅ Created under the 2025 US-backed ceasefire

📍 What it Does
✅ Marks the Israeli withdrawal zone
✅ Divides Gaza into two parts:
• East: Israeli-controlled areas
• West: Palestinian-administered areas

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 19 DEC 2025


🔆 REGULATORY / RBI
📍 RBI Handbook on Indian States
✅ RBI releases 10th edition of Handbook of Statistics on Indian States (2024–25)
✅ Coverage: 1951–2024–25
✅ Prepared by REMD, DEPR (RBI)
✅ New External Sector section added
✅ 11 new state-wise tables included (tourism, NSVA, groundwater, NPS/APY, exports)
✅ Old base year series replaced with 2011–12 base

🔆 NATIONAL
📍 Electric Mobility
✅ Tesla commissions India’s first charging station
✅ Location: Gurugram (DLF Horizon Center)
✅ 4 V4 Superchargers (250 kW) + 3 destination chargers

📍 Governance & Heritage
✅ PM inaugurates Param Vir Gallery at Rashtrapati Bhavan
✅ Dedicated to Param Vir Chakra awardees

📍 Skill Development
✅ 53+ lakh candidates trained under PMKVY in last 5 years
✅ Placement rate: ~70.5%
✅ Implemented by NSDC

🔆 ECONOMY
📍 Exports
✅ MSME exports cross ₹9.52 lakh crore (Apr–Sep FY26)
✅ Supported by Export Promotion Mission
➡ Niryat Protsahan (financial) + Niryat Disha (non-financial)

📍 Power & Energy
✅ India’s installed power capacity reaches 505 GW
✅ Non-fossil fuels > 50% of total capacity
✅ Achieved 5+ years ahead of India’s NDC target

🔆 DEFENCE
📍 Maritime Cooperation
✅ ICG Ship Sarthak makes first-ever port call at Chabahar (Iran)
✅ Boosts maritime security & India–Iran cooperation

🔆 MoUs / INTERNATIONAL
📍 Technology
✅ IIT Bombay + Vertiv partner for AI data-centre cooling solutions

📍 Diplomacy
✅ India–Saudi Arabia sign Visa Waiver Agreement
✅ Applies to diplomatic, official & special passport holders

📍 Trade
✅ India–Oman CEPA signed
✅ Oman grants zero-duty access on 98% tariff lines
✅ India liberalises 77.79% tariff lines

🔆 SCHEMES
📍 Mission Karmayogi
✅ National Civil Services Capacity Building Programme
✅ Digital platform: iGOT Karmayogi
✅ Focus: competency-based, continuous learning

📍 Digital Agriculture Mission
✅ Launches AgriStack, DSS, Soil Profile Maps
✅ Farmer ID piloted in 6 districts
✅ Enables data-driven advisories & crop insurance

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
📍 18 December
✅ International Migrants Day 2025
➡ Theme: My Great Story: Cultures & Development
✅ Minorities Rights Day

🔆 OBITUARY
📍 Art & Culture
✅ Ram Sutar, sculptor of Statue of Unity, passes away at 100

🔆 AWARDS
📍 International Honour
✅ PM Narendra Modi conferred Order of Oman (First Class)
✅ By Sultan Haitham bin Tarik
✅ On 70th anniversary of India–Oman diplomatic ties

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🔆 Rise & Fall of Harappan Civilization

📍 Rise (First Urbanisation in India)
✅ Agricultural surplus: Fertile Indus plains → wheat & barley
✅ Granaries at Mohenjo-daro supported artisans & traders
✅ Tech & craft specialization:
✅ Bronze metallurgy
✅ Bead-making (Chanhudaro)
✅ Mass pottery (potter’s wheel)
✅ Trade networks:
✅ Dockyard at Lothal
✅ Uniform seals & weights
✅ Trade with Mesopotamia
✅ Strong urban planning:
✅ Grid-pattern cities
✅ Standardized bricks
✅ Great Bath & advanced drainage

📍 Fall (c. 1900 BCE – Gradual De-urbanisation)
✅ Climate change: Drier climate, weak monsoon
✅ Drying of Ghaggar–Hakra (Saraswati)
✅ Ecological disasters: Floods & tectonic shifts
✅ River course changes at Mohenjo-daro
✅ Economic decline:
✅ Reduced surplus
✅ Decline in Mesopotamian trade
✅ Migration & de-urbanisation:
✅ Movement towards Gangetic plains & Gujarat
✅ Rural, dispersed Late Harappan settlements

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🔆 CDSCO

📍 Current Update
✅ CDSCO has mandated QR codes + toll-free numbers at all pharmacies for reporting adverse drug reactions (ADRs).

📍 About CDSCO
✅ HQ: New Delhi
✅ Statutory authority under the Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940
✅ Under Ministry of Health & Family Welfare

📍 Key Functions
✅ Regulates import of drugs
✅ Approves new drugs
✅ Oversees clinical trials
✅ Ensures drug safety, standards & quality control

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🔆 Geoengineering Projects & Their Challenges

📍 1️⃣ Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI)
✅ Releases aerosols (SO₂, CaCO₃) to reflect sunlight & cool the Earth.
⚠️ Challenges: Termination shock, ineffectiveness in polar winters/summers.

📍 2️⃣ Sea Curtains / Sea Walls
✅ Buoyant barriers prevent warm ocean water from melting polar ice.
⚠️ Challenges: Marine disruption, toxicity, and impact on ocean circulation.

📍 3️⃣ Sea Ice Management
✅ Scattering microbeads or pumping seawater to thicken sea ice.
⚠️ Challenges: Ecotoxicity to marine life, counterproductive warming.

📍 4️⃣ Basal Water Removal
✅ Removes subglacial water to slow ice loss and sea-level rise.
⚠️ Challenge: Highly emission-intensive and costly to maintain.

📍 5️⃣ Ocean Fertilisation (OF)
✅ Adds nutrients to boost phytoplankton and absorb CO₂.
⚠️ Challenges: Ecosystem disruption, nutrient depletion, algal blooms.

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🔆 Major Buddhist Sites in India

📍 Mahabodhi Temple – Bihar
✅ Site of Buddha’s Enlightenment (Bodhi)
✅ Built by Ashoka; rebuilt in Gupta period
✅ Current structure: 5th–6th century CE

📍 Sravasti – Uttar Pradesh
✅ Capital of Kosala Mahajanapada
✅ Buddha spent 24 years preaching
✅ Stupas, monasteries, temples

📍 Kushinagar – Uttar Pradesh
✅ Site of Mahaparinirvana
✅ Ramabhar Stupa (cremation site)
✅ Mahanirvana Temple (reclining Buddha)

📍 Kapilavastu – Uttar Pradesh
✅ Birthplace of Lord Buddha
✅ Stupas & relic caskets
✅ Kushana inscriptions (Kanishka)

📍 Ajanta Caves – Maharashtra
✅ 30 rock-cut Buddhist caves
✅ Jataka tales & murals
✅ 2nd century BCE – 5th century CE

📍 Ellora Caves – Maharashtra
✅ Buddhist, Hindu & Jain caves
✅ 600–1000 CE
✅ Ancient name: Elapura

📍 Pitalkhora Caves – Maharashtra
✅ Early rock-cut caves (2nd century BCE)
✅ Chaityas & Viharas
✅ Hinayana with later Mahayana murals

📍 Sirpur – Chhattisgarh
✅ Buddhist–Hindu–Jain centre
✅ On Mahanadi river
✅ Visited by Hiuen Tsang

📍 Ratnagiri – Odisha
✅ Part of Diamond Triangle
✅ Mahavihara (5th century CE)
✅ Giant Buddha with Padmapani & Vajrapani

📍 Lalitgiri – Odisha
✅ Oldest Buddhist complex in Odisha
✅ Linked to Puspagiri University

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🔆 Western Disturbances

📍 Definition
✅ Eastward-moving extra-tropical weather systems bringing sudden winter rainfall to northwestern India.
✅ Originate beyond Iran & Afghanistan, travel via Pakistan before reaching India.

📍 Origin & Characteristics
✅ Driven by low-pressure systems formed by interaction of polar & tropical air masses.
✅ Moisture source: Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, sometimes Arabian Sea.
✅ Embedded in Subtropical Westerly Jet Stream (STWJ) flowing west → east over Himalayas & Tibetan Plateau.

📍 Seasonal Occurrence
✅ Most active in winter (Dec–Mar).
✅ Can also affect pre-monsoon & post-monsoon weather.

📍 Geographical Impact
✅ Influence weather in NW India, N. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan.
✅ In India → rainfall in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, HP, Uttarakhand, UP (parts).
✅ Cause snowfall in Himalayas & cold wave in plains.

📍 Importance for Agriculture
✅ Crucial for Rabi crops (esp. wheat).
✅ Excess/unseasonal rains → crop damage & disruption.

🔆 Prelims Practice
Q. With reference to Western Disturbances, consider the following:
1. They originate in the Bay of Bengal and move westward.
2. They are embedded in the Subtropical Westerly Jet Stream.
3. They are crucial for Rabi crops in northwestern India.

Which of the above is/are correct?
(a) 1 & 2 only
(b) 2 & 3 only
(c) 1 & 3 only
(d) 1, 2 & 3
👉 Answer: (b)

🔆 Mains Practice
Q. Examine the role of Western Disturbances in shaping the winter climate of India. Discuss their significance for agriculture and the associated risks. (150 words)

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