Siddhartha Singh

Current Affairs Head, VisionIAS.
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Congratulations to our boys on a superb four-wicket victory over India in the opening clash of the Hong Kong Sixes 2026! It was a good game of cricket

I also commend Chairman PCB Mohsin Naqvi @MohsinnaqviC42 and his team for their dedicated efforts in preparing and supporting our players.

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UPSC TESTS TOPICS, NOT ARTICLES!
Reading every newspaper article isn't necessary for
UPSC. Focus on exam-relevant topics, connect Current Affairs with static subjects, and use PYQs to understand what UPSC actually demands.

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Nobel Prize 2026 Explained for UPSC | Physics, Medicine, Neutrinos, IceCube Observatory & Optogenetics

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While US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened Brics nations if they pursue a common currency or ditch the dollar in favour of an existing currency like the Chinese yuan, Brics countries, including India, have stressed that they do not pursue de-dollarisation.

Instead, they have pursued mechanisms like trade in local currencies. The development of alternative financial institutions, such as the New Development Bnak, and payment mechanisms, such as Brics Pay, that cater to the unique needs of the Global South has been central to Brics

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NEW: "I told PM Modi that I tested our trade in local currencies. I bought some books here and I paid in local currency. My payment on the card went through in rupees and it translated in South African rand. It doesn't get any better than that," says SA President Ramaphosa

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A decade long trust built by people, systems and process.
We will continue to evolve and serve students with improved products,

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@HowThingsWork_ And waste water and time.

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40+ Reflections in UPSC Prelims 2026 🔍

See how VisionIAS Current Affairs Ecosystem reflected across key UPSC Prelims questions & themes through structured, exam-oriented preparation.

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To all UPSC aspirants out there.
Choose your heroes wisely.

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@manoj_216 India’s working assumption has often been: diversify suppliers, use refinery stocks, maintain OMC inventories, and rely on market access.

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🎉 HUGE medical milestone!
The FDA just approved the first-ever gene therapy for inherited deafness 🧬👂

Called Otarmeni (made by Regeneron), this one-time treatment targets a form of hearing loss caused by mutations in the OTOF gene which disrupts the inner ear's ability to send sound signals to the brain.

The results? In a trial of 20 people, 17 showed improved hearing, some could even hear whispers. Many reached a level of hearing that no longer requires cochlear implants. 🙌

How it works: Harmless viruses deliver working copies of the gene into the ear. That's it. One treatment.

The best part? Regeneron says the therapy itself will be free to U.S. patients (though admin costs may still apply).

Approved for both kids and adults, this is being called "a landmark moment for the field" and a catalyst for the future of genetic hearing loss treatments. 🚀

Around 50 newborns per year in the U.S. are affected by this form of hearing loss and now, they have a real option.

#GeneTherapy #MedicalBreakthrough #ScienceNews

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@SomaBlogger @narendramodi Main thing? More important than the contributions of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ma Sarada Devi, and Swami Vivekananda?

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@MiskeenKutteHai @aravind A large part of Indian corporate structure was built to serve demand, not to create frontier technology.

And smaller firms that do want to build real technology often hit the wall of funding gaps, procurement bottlenecks, regulatory drag, weak R&D culture etc.

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Belur Math has a strong historical legacy.

It became the permanent headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math after the land was secured in early 1898 on the western bank of the Ganga-Hooghly near Kolkata.

Swami Vivekananda formally established it there on 9 December 1898 by placing the sacred relics of Sri Ramakrishna at the site.

Its roots go back to the early Ramakrishna brotherhood that first lived at Baranagar after Sri Ramakrishna’s death.

Belur Math gave that young monastic order a stable center and later grew into the headquarters of both the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission.

The main Ramakrishna temple came later. The first foundation stone was laid in 1929. A second foundation was laid at the present site in 1935. The temple was finally completed and consecrated on 14 January 1938, on Makar Sankranti.

The temple was designed by Swami Vijnanananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna who had been a civil engineer before becoming a monk.

The design followed ideas associated with Swami Vivekananda and was meant to express religious harmony through architecture.

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Imagine spotting a glowing golden object on the ocean floor and having no idea what it is. That is exactly what happened to scientists in the deep Pacific.

Scientists now say it was the golden base of a giant deep-sea anemone, Relicanthus daphneae, a strange species that lives in the dark, cold, high-pressure world of the deep ocean.

The object was found in 2023 in the Gulf of Alaska, more than 3,000 metres below the surface, where sunlight never reaches. Initial DNA tests were inconclusive, which is why the mystery lasted so long.

This is a reminder that the deep sea is still one of Earth’s least understood frontiers. Even today, scientists are still identifying basic life forms from places humans rarely see.

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@anxietymsgs We don't spend money to find happiness. We spend it to buy back the attention we sold to earn it.

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The Iran war has become a fertiliser problem for India.

It has pushed up urea prices very sharply and disrupted supplies from West Asia. This matters because India depends on that region for both imported urea and LNG used in domestic fertiliser production.

India is now importing a record 2.5 million tonnes of urea in one tender. The price is about $935 to $959 per tonne. In February, India had paid only about $508 to $512 per tonne. So the cost has almost doubled in two months.

The problem is not only imports. India’s domestic urea output has also come under pressure. Gas supplies and shipping have been affected. Indian Express says production fell well below normal levels in March and remained weak in April.

This is important because India uses a lot of urea every year. It produces most of it at home, but still imports a large part of its needs. So when global prices rise and domestic output weakens at the same time, the pressure becomes much bigger.

Farmers will not pay this higher price directly. Urea prices are controlled in India. That means the government will have to bear the extra cost through a bigger fertiliser subsidy bill.

The short-term kharif season may still be managed with emergency imports. But if the conflict continues, the bigger worry is the next season. India could face both higher costs and tighter fertiliser availability.

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