Friday, October 17, 2025

Current affairs for KBC

India’s Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSAI) has issued an order dated October 14, 2025, banning the use of the term “ORS” (Oral Rehydration Salts/Solution) on all food and beverage products unless they conform to the World Health Organization’s medically approved formula for oral rehydration therapy.

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The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was launched in September 2015 to rank higher educational institutions in India, with its first rankings announced in 2016; as of its tenth edition in 2025, only about 24.2% of the country’s 58,643 Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) are covered, highlighting both its progress and the ongoing need for wider participation and a unified data platform as proposed in the National Education Policy 2020.

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Chandrababu Naidu's 2024 win in Andhra Pradesh was anchored on the BJP's "double-engine sarkar" promise, a slogan popularized by Modi and Shah to ensure accelerated development via aligned governance between the state and Centre. This unity, reinforced by Prime Minister Modi's support for Nara Lokesh (a "third engine"), solidified Andhra's emergence as a tech hub, evident in projects like Google's ₹80,000-crore AI data centre in Visakhapatnam and progress on Amaravati and Polavaram.

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The 22 countries that have never been invaded by Britain are:

Andorra

Belarus

Bolivia

Burundi

Central African Republic

Chad

Republic of Congo

Guatemala

Ivory Coast

Kyrgyzstan

Liechtenstein

Luxembourg

Mali

Marshall Islands

Monaco

Mongolia

Paraguay

Sao Tome and Principe

Sweden

Tajikistan

Uzbekistan

Vatican City.

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