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Highlights of 21 May 2025 Current Affairs
- India has introduced biometric e-passports with RFID chips and encrypted data, enhancing security and enabling faster, globally accepted immigration processes.
- e-Passports store biometric data like facial images and fingerprints, ensuring secure identification and compliance with ICAO international standards.
- Fire safety in India follows model codes like NBC 2016, which includes fire zoning, suppression systems, and mandatory non-combustible building materials.
- Fire incidents claim thousands of lives yearly, highlighting poor compliance and the need for robust fire safety implementation across states.
- The Indus River, originating in Tibet, flows through India and Pakistan, supporting agriculture and forming part of the world’s largest irrigation system.
- Indus River’s tributaries form Punjab’s fertile plains, while its strategic flow through Ladakh gives India leverage in water diplomacy with Pakistan.
- The Harappan Civilization, one of the world’s earliest urban cultures, flourished along the Indus with advanced drainage, trade, and city planning.
- The Mullaperiyar Dam, built in 1895 in Kerala but controlled by Tamil Nadu, remains a flashpoint over safety concerns and water-sharing rights.
- Supreme Court verdicts have allowed Tamil Nadu to maintain the dam’s water level at 142 feet, rejecting Kerala’s plea for a new dam.
- The Dam Safety Act, 2021, sets up national and state-level bodies to inspect, monitor, and ensure the structural and operational safety of dams.
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