May: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

30th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. Insurance penetration in India increased from 3.76% in 2019-20 to 4.20%in 2020-21, registering a growth of 11.70% :IRDAI
2. India had a stunting rate of 31.7 % in 2022, down from 41.6 % in 2012, a decade ago
3. India’s most powerful supercomputers — Pratyush and Mihir — with a combined capacity of 6.8 petaflops are housed at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM)

27th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. 50% of forest fire occurrences in India were reported from nine national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.
2. Around 23 lakh cases, which are over a decade old, are pending in various subordinate courts of the country: NJDG
3. 23.3% women surveyed got married before attaining the legal age of 18 : NFHS 5

26th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. With only 2.4% of the earth’s land area, India accounts for 7-8% of the world’s recorded species. 4 of the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots are located in India: The Himalayas, Western Ghats, Indo-Burma area, and Sundaland.
2. Tribal communities in India constitute for approximately 8.9% of the total population. Out of the total Schedule Tribe population, approximately 2.6 million (2.5%) belong to “Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups” (PVTGs) known as the “Primitive Tribes”.
3. India’s solar power capacity has reached 64,380.68 MW as of February 2023 and the country’s wind power capacity has also crossed the 42,015.38 MW mark according to data from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).

25th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. The Son River is the 2nd-largest southern (right bank) tributary of the Ganges after the Yamuna River. It originates near Amarkantak Hill in the Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district of Chhattisgarh and finally merges with the Ganges River near Patna in Bihar.
2. India consumes 23.5-24 million tonnes (mt) of cooking oil annually, out of which 13.5-14 mt is imported and the balance 9.5-10 mt produced from domestically cultivated seed. Sunflower is the fourth largest consumed oil (2-2.5 mt), behind mustard (3-3.5 mt), soyabean (4.5-5 mt) and palm (8-8.5 mt)
3. WMO revealed that between 1970 and 2021, India experienced 573 climate-related disasters, resulting in the 2nd-highest number of deaths in Asia, after Bangladesh. 

24th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. If all countries only fulfill their existing commitments, emissions in 2030 would be about 11% higher than 2010 levels
2. Although any two humans share more than 99% of their DNA, there is still about a 0.4% (~12.8 million nucleotides) difference between any two individuals
3. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has been hit with a record-breaking fine of 1.3 billion USD by the European Union (EU) for violating its privacy law

23rd May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. In the last five years, the highest number of custodial deaths (80) has been reported in Gujarat, followed by Maharashtra (76)
2. Children suffering from SAM (severe acute malnutrition) are nine times more likely to die in case of diseases due to their weakened immune system
3. According to NFHS-5, in children below the age of five years, 35.5% were stunted, 19.3% showed wasting, and 32.1% were underweight

22nd May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. India became the 6th country in the world to possess nuclear weapons capability after the US, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China
2. Indians spent 12.51 billion USD on overseas travel between April-February of fiscal 2022-23, a rise of 104% compared to the same period of the last year
3. India’s Pharmaceutical Industry is currently valued at USD 50 Bn being a major exporter of Pharmaceuticals, with over 200+ countries served by Indian pharma exports

20th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1.  According to NFHS-5, 3% of women aged 15-49 have had a hysterectomy
2.  Currently, 85% of rural and 50% of urban population is dependent on groundwater for sustenance, making India the largest groundwater user globally
3.  EU is India’s 2nd-largest trading partner (after the US) and India’s 2nd-largest export market. India is the EU’s 10th largest trading partner

19th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. India is the third-largest fish producer and the second-largest aquaculture producer globally
2. Indian fisheries has witnessed a paradigm shift from marine dominated fisheries to inland fisheries, with the latter emerging as a major contributor of fish production from 36% in the mid-1980 to 70% in the recent past
3. India recorded thousand numbers of internal displacement and 631,000 internally displaced people due to conflict and violence and 2.5 million due to disaster in 2022

18th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. According to NCRB, occupancy rate of jails is 118.5% of the prison capacity
2. A total of 146 cases of death in police custody were reported during 2017-2018
3. 4,500 industrial facilities in the permafrost regions have most likely produced between 13,000 and 20,000 contaminated sites

17th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. Training a large AI model such as GPT-3 can directly consume up to 700,000 liters of clean freshwater, which is enough to produce 370 BMW cars or 320 Tesla electric vehicles
2. India’s arms imports fell 11% between 2013-17 and 2018-22, but the country is still the world’s top importer of military hardware in 2022
3. With a recorded wind speed of 277 kmph, Mocha became the strongest cyclone for all seasons in both Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, since 1982, in the North Indian Ocean, tying with Cyclone Fani in terms of speed and intensity

16th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. India’s Defence Ministry approves 4th positive indigenisation list of 928 items to boost local manufacturing
2. Bhopal has become the first city in India to adopt voluntary local reviews (VLR) to demonstrate its commitment and capacity to achieving the SDGs
3. The 4th edition of the India-Indonesia Bilateral exercise, Samudra Shakti-23 is being held in Indonesia

15th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. Drugs worth Rs 15,000 crore seized by NCB, Navy off Kerala Coast is the largest ever haul in India, and was part of Operation Samudragupt of NCB
2. India can cut its energy imports bill by $2 billion if the nation harnesses 10% of the coal bed methane reserves of 2,600 billion cubic metres
3. The US sold weapons in 2022 to 57% of the world’s authoritarian regimes

14th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. Italy likely to withdraw from China’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative
2. Government Health Expenditure’s share in country’s total GDP increases from 1.13% (2014-15) to 1.35% (2019-20)
3. The Railways plans to provide Agniveers with a combined reservation of 15% in non-gazetted positions for direct recruitment in various departments

12th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. USA invited India’s Prime Minister for a state visit after 14 years
2. Ministry of Jal Shakti has announced that half of the nation’s villages have attained ODF Plus status under the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G) Phase-II
3.  Around 39% of Indian families in a survey claimed to have experienced financial fraud in the last 3 years

11th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. UN study says India among 10 countries that make up 60 % of global maternal deaths, still births, new born deaths
2. The 35th edition of India-Thailand Coordinated Patrol (Indo-Thai CORPAT) between the Indian Navy and the Royal Thai Navy was conducted recently
3. Cisco, the US-based tech conglomerate, has said it will set up a manufacturing plant in India to drive more than $1 billion in combined domestic production and exports in the coming years

10th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. Almost half of all pre-term births in 2020 happened in 5 countries – India, Pakistan, Nigeria, China and Ethiopia
2. India’s youth unemployment rate (15-29 years) is at 12.4% according to PLFS (periodic labour force survey) 2021-22
3. India became the 3rd largest automobile market after China and USA in 2022, with sales of 4.25 million vehicles

9th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. India should ban the use of diesel-powered four-wheeler vehicles by 2027 and switch to electric and gas-fuelled vehicles in cities with more than a million people and polluted towns in order to cut emissions, an oil ministry panel is recommending
2. Diesel accounts for about two-fifths of refined fuel consumption in India with 80% of that being used in the transport sector

6th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. India has planned to hold 230 meetings in 60 cities in its G20 Presidency Year
2. IIT Madras launches survey, website to address students’ mental health concerns
3. The first phase of Kaladan Multi-Modal Project has been operationalized with the launch of cargo ships from Kolkata to Sittwe Port, Myanmar

5th May #Edufacts: Important Facts of the Day for UPSC IAS Current Affairs

1. 16 out of 30 national sports federations don’t have an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) as per POSH Act, 2013.
2. Khelo India 2020 saw a >160% increase in women’s participation compared to 2018
3. While cities constitute about 3% of the land in the country, they generate 70% of the GDP
4. India’s share of global exports of goods is just about 2%