MoRD has highlighted instances of misuse or manipulation of the NMMS raising concerns about transparency and accountability in the implementation of MGNREGA.

About NMMS App:

• Launched by: Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD).
• Use: to capture the attendance of MGNREGS workers with geo-tagged time stamped photographs of the worker in a day.
• Objective: to reduce instances of fake attendance and ghost beneficiaries
• Languages: It is presently available in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam etc.

Concerns: 

• Accountability and potential financial irregularities: Irrelevant photo uploads and repeated worker photos.
• Internet connectivity and software glitches resulting in exclusion.

International Criminal Court welcomed Ukraine as 125th State Party to the Rome Statue. 

About the ICC

• It is the first international permanent court to investigate and prosecute individuals accused of serious international crimes: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.
• Established under the Rome Statute (adopted in 1998 entered into force in 2002)
• India is not party to the Rome Statute.
• Hq: The Hague, Netherlands.

The European Space Agency (ESA) and UK-based Frazer-Nash have kicked off INVICTUS to develop hypersonic technologies.

About INVICTUS:

• It is a fully reusable experimental aerospace vehicle capable of flying at Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound).
• Funding: ESA’s General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) and Technology Development Element (TDE)
• Key Features: 
  • Sustained hypersonic flight in the atmosphere 
  • Upgradable, allowing for the exchange of materials, software and propulsion systems between flight test campaigns.
• Significance: prove suitability of a hydrogen-fuelled precooled air-breathing propulsion system for horizontal take-off and hypersonic flight in reusable vehicles.

The Labour Bureau has revised the base year of the Consumer Price Index Numbers for Agricultural Labourers and Rural Labourers (CPI – AL & RL) to 2019=100. 

CPI-AL & RL

• It replaces the CPI – AL/RL (Base: 1986-87=100) series.
• Compiled by : Labour Bureau (Ministry of Labour and Employment).
• Consumer Price Indices (CPI) measure changes over time in the general level of prices of goods and services that households acquire for the purpose of consumption. 
  • A person is treated as an agricultural labourer if he or she follows one or more of the agricultural occupations in the capacity of a labourer on hire, whether paid in cash or kind or partly in cash and partly in kind. 
  • A rural labourer is defined as one who does manual work in rural areas in agricultural and non-agricultural occupations in return for wages in cash or kind, or partly in cash and partly in kind.

Union Minister unveiled National Standards for Civil Service Training Institutes 2.0 (NSCSTI 2.0)Framework.

About the framework

• Developed by: Capacity Building Commission (CBC)
• Objective: To build future-ready civil services Training Institutes.
• Key Features: Streamlined evaluation metrics, Inclusive design, Digitally aligned with hybrid learning models, etc. 

About Capacity Building Commission (2021)

• It plays a key role in implementing the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB), also known as Mission Karmayogi.
• It works as an independent body with full executive power. 

India has submitted a letter of request to the United States for the co-production of Javelin ATGMs in the country, as per reports.

About Javelin ATGMs

• World's premier single man-portable medium-range anti-tank weapon system.
• Missile automatically guides itself to the target after launch (fire-and-forget principle)

India reaffirms commitment to ‘Pact for Future’ at UN dialogue.

About ‘Pact for Future’

• It was adopted at Summit of the Future in 2024
• Pact for the Future includes:-
  • Global Digital Compact ( It is the 1st comprehensive global framework for digital cooperation) and  
  • Declaration on Future Generations
• Feature: It makes clear commitments and achieves concrete deliverables on a range of issues, with strong attention to human rights, gender and sustainable development.  
• It formulates various commitments in the areas of:-
  • Sustainable development and financing for development,
  • International peace and security, 
  • Science, technology, and innovation and digital cooperation,
  • Youth and future generations and 
  • Transforming global governance.

The government has given a go-ahead to the production of next generation airborne early warning and control system (Awacs) India programme also referred to as the Netra MkII.

Netra MkII

• It will be mounted on the Airbus A321 platform.
• Features
  • detect, track, and monitor threats across vast distances. 
  • Much more than an aircraft as it is a flying command centre which will extend our national vigilance.
  • Has Active Electronically Scanned Array radars and mission control systems.