Current Affairs 10th August 2025

 

Union Cabinet approved PM Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana (PMDDKY) on July 17, 2025. Objective: Enhance agricultural productivity and promote sustainable agricultural practices. Budget and Duration: Total outlay: ₹24,000 crore annually. Duration: 6 years (2025–26 to 2030–31). Target beneficiaries: 1.7 crore farmers. Convergence Model: Merges 36 schemes from 11 central ministries/departments. Similar to the Aspirational District Programme. District Selection Criteria: 100 districts to be selected based on: Low productivity Low cropping intensity Low credit disbursement Each State/UT to have at least one district chosen, based on share of Net Cropped Area and operational holdings

 

Key Focus Areas: Post-harvest infrastructure at panchayat/block levels. Irrigation improvements. Access to longterm and short-term credit. Promotion of natural and organic farming. Emphasis on crop diversification and soil-water conservation. Implementation Structure: Committees at district, State, and national levels. Each district to create a District Agriculture and Allied Activities Plan. Involvement of progressive farmers in planning (District Dhan Dhaanya Samiti). Monitoring: Monthly progress review. Goals include self-reliance, livelihood generation, and value addition in agriculture.

 

Expert Opinion: CEEW calls it a significant step, promoting resilience via diversification and sustainability. Critique: Using low credit disbursement as a criterion may be flawed; reliance on external credit should reduce in resilient farming systems. The Hindu CP violation in baryons Matter vs Antimatter Mystery After the Big Bang, scientists believe equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created. But today, the universe is full of matter, and antimatter has almost disappeared. One of the biggest unsolved mysteries in physics is: Why is matter more common than antimatter? What is CP Violation? CP stands for: C (Charge Conjugation) – swapping a particle with its antiparticle. P (Parity) – flipping the system like a mirror image. CP symmetry says that if you do both (C + P), the physics should look the same. But sometimes, this symmetry is broken this is called CP violation. CP violation is important because it helps explain why more matter exists in the universe than antimatter.

 

 

Physicist Andrei Sakharov said three things are needed to explain the matter-antimatter imbalance: Baryon number violation more matter than antimatter must be created. CP violation – matter and antimatter must behave differently. Out-of-equilibrium conditions – the process must happen in a way that doesn’t allow equal amounts to be created. In particle physics, CP violation is the violation of CP-symmetry, which is a fundamental symmetry stating that the laws of physics should remain the same when a particle is swapped with its antiparticle (Csymmetry) and its spatial coordinates