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Current affairs July 17(2025-07-17)

How many of the following statements about PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana (PMDDKY) are correct?
1. The scheme merges schemes from multiple ministries and departments to avoid duplication and improve convergence.
2. PMDDKY focuses only on the irrigation component of agriculture.
3. At least one district will be selected from every State/UT under the scheme.
4. Districts are selected for this scheme based on criteria including low productivity and low cropping intensity.

 

Which of the following statements are correct?
1. The Income-Tax Bill, 2025 was introduced in Lok Sabha. It seeks to replace the Income-Tax Act, 1961.
2. The income tax bill 2025 has proposed some changes in the goods and service tax.

Consider the following statements regarding India’s non-fossil fuel electricity capacity
1. India has achieved 50% of its installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources.
2. As of 2025, the share of electricity generation from non-fossil sources is more than 50%.
3. The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement had targeted the 50% capacity milestone by 2030.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Which of the following is/are correct regarding the LHC, CERN laboratory?
1. The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator. 
2. It accelerates particles, mainly protons, to near the speed of light in opposite directions around a 27-km underground ring. 
3. The particles are made to collide at four locations, where massive detectors collect data on what happens during the collision.