Daily Current Affairs — 26 September 2025
6 articles • UPSC Prelims & Mains
Growing Interconnections Between Energy and AI Worldwide
Context In a 2024 report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlighted the growing interconnections between energy and AI worldwide. Global Data Centre Energy Outlook Rising Demand: Data centre electricity demand projected to more than double by 2030 to 945 TWh. AI-optimised data centres demand to quadruple by 2030.
India's Outward Remittances Dips 11% Under Liberalised Remittance Scheme
Context Outward remittances by resident individuals under the Reserve Bank of India’s Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) fell nearly 11% year-on-year in July 2025, totalling $2,452.93 million against $2,754.05 million in the same period last year. What are Remittances? Remittances are a way to electronically send funds to people, often family, in another country.
Rising Cancer Burden: Lancet Study
Context An analysis of the ‘Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2023’, published in The Lancet, presents updated estimates of the cancer burden in 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2023, along with projections up to 2050. Global Cancer Burden (2023) New Cancer Diagnoses projected to increase by 60.7%, 30.5 million cases annually by 2050; Cancer deaths are projected to increase by 74.5%, amounting to 18.6 million per year by 2050, with low and middle income countr
National Initiative on Water Security
In News The Government of India has launched the ‘National Initiative on Water Security,’ making water conservation a top national priority and introducing mandatory minimum spending on water-related works under MGNREGA. What Qualifies as Water Conservation Works? Construction of check dams, farm ponds, community tanks, and percolation tanks.
Driving Digital Transformation in Gram Panchayats
Context The Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) has launched a series of digital reforms to strengthen Gram Panchayats. Need for the Digital Transformation of Villages Bridging the Digital Divide: Rural India still faces low internet penetration and digital illiteracy, digital transformation helps ensure inclusive growth and reduces inequality. Improved Governance and Service Delivery: Digital platforms enable direct benefit transfers (DBT), e-Governance, and online grievance redressal.
India’s Urban Definition is Failing Its Growing Towns
Context India’s next Census in 2027 is set to retain the 2011 definition of “urban,” as announced by the Registrar General of India. How India Defines Urban Areas? In the 2011 Census, an urban unit was defined as either a statutory town or a census town.