Current Affairs 25th February 2025
Current affairs 25th February 2025 by Saurabh Pandey Sir
Space Health Challenges in space Key Health Risks for Astronauts
🌌 Radiation Exposure: High-energy radiation in space can lead to DNA damage, increased cancer risk, and neurodegenerative effects.
🛡 Limited Protection: Earth’s magnetosphere provides some protection for low-Earth orbit missions. Missions beyond, such as to the moon, expose astronauts to higher radiation doses.
⚖ Impact of Microgravity: Lack of gravity causes bodily fluids to shift, increasing intracranial pressure. This can affect vision and lead to balance issues.
💪 Muscle and Bone Health: Prolonged microgravity results in muscle atrophy and bone density loss due to the absence of mechanical loading.
🧠 Psychological Effects: Long-duration missions can lead to psychological stress, sleep disturbances, and mood disorders due to isolation and limited social interaction.
🧠 Recovery Variability: Recovery from biological damage depends on mission duration. Short missions see about 95% recovery, while longer missions have lingering issues.
👁 Neuro-Ocular Syndrome: Some astronauts experience vision impairment linked to fluid shifts and changes in intracranial pressure after long missions. Summary: Astronauts face significant health risks from radiation, microgravity effects, and psychological stress during space missions, with recovery varying based on mission length
Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code:
On January 27, 2025, Uttarakhand made headlines as the first Indian state to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). What is the Uniform Civil Code? The UCC aims to replace personal laws based on the scriptures and customs of each major religious community in India with a common legal framework governing every citizen. The idea is to ensure equality and justice, but the implementation has raised eyebrows: Objective: To establish a uniform set of laws concerning marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption. Scope: Affects all citizens, regardless of their religious affiliation. Criticism: Many argue that this move threatens cultural identities and traditional practices The Context of Implementation The UCC’s introduction comes at a time when interfaith marriages already face significant social hurdles: Social Attitudes: A 2014 survey revealed that fewer than 10% of urban Indians had a family member who married outside their caste, with interfaith unions being even rarer. Regulatory Framework: The UCC, combined with existing anti-conversion laws, seems to be a coordinated effort to further regulate these relationships
