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DAILY DOSE 29^thAUG – 2025 CURRENT AFFAIRS

PNB’s First Startup Branch:
- Punjab National Bank (PNB) opened its first dedicated startup branchin New Delhi.
- Supports Startup Indiainitiative; offers customized banking services for startups.
- Signed MoU with STPI (Software Technology Parks of India)to assist startups.
- Sudhir Dalal (PNB)and Subodh Sachan (STPI) were the signatories.
- STPI to share its incubated startups list to help PNB identify beneficiaries.

FIDE World Cup 2025 in Goa:
- Dates: Oct 30 – Nov 27, 2025; venue: Goa.
- Total 206 players, $2 million prize pool, and 3 spots for 2026 Candidates Tournament.
- Format: 8-round knockout; top 50 seeds start from Round 2.
- Highlights: Cultural appeal of Goa; India’s emergence as a chess powerhouse.
National Sports Day – 29 August 2025:
- Theme: “Sport to Promote Peaceful and Inclusive Societies.”
- Commemorates Major Dhyan Chand(born 29 Aug); Olympic golds: 1928, 1932, 1936.
- Celebrated under Fit India Missionas a 3-day event (Aug 29–31).

CHODs 2025 – Thailand:
- Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixitrepresented India.
- Engaged with Vietnamand US Indo-Pacific Command.
- Focus: Maritime security, cyber resilience, counter-terrorism, and Indo-Pacific stability.
Parliamentary Committee Conference on SC/ST Welfare:
- Held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha(29–30 Aug).
- Inaugurated by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
- Attendees: 30 committee members, over 240 participants.
- First time held outside Delhi. Focus: tribal development & constitutional protections.

Duty-Free Cotton Imports Extended:
- Valid till Dec 31, 2025(earlier till Sept 30).
- Aimed to support the textile sectoramid high S. tariffs (50%).
- Expected import: 40 lakh balesin current season (2024–2025).
- Cotton MSP hiked by 8%; CCI to continue procurement operations.
- India’s main cotton suppliers: Australia & US.

India to Become 2nd Largest Economy (PPP) by 2038:
- EY Report: India to surpass US, Germany, Japanin PPP by 2038.
- Projected economy size: $20.7 trillionin PPP by 2030.
- Government debt to GDPexpected to fall from 3% (2024) to 75.8% (2030).
- India to be 3rd largest in MER terms by 2028, overtaking Germany.
Industrial Output Growth – July 2025:
- Growth: 5%(highest in 4 months).
- Manufacturingup by 4%, Electricity up by 0.6%.
- Miningcontracted by 2%.
- Strong growth in infrastructure goods (11.9%), durables (7.7%), intermediates (5.8%).

India-Bhutan Agricultural Cooperation:
- Signed in Thimphuby India’s Devesh Chaturvedi and Bhutan’s Thinley Namgyel.
- Focus: Food security, sustainable practices, post-harvest tech, and rural well-being.
- India is Bhutan’s top trading partnerand major investor.

Robotic Cataract Surgery at Army Hospital (Delhi):
- First Govt hospital in India, second in South Asia, to perform Robotic Custom Laser Cataract Surgery.
- Used ALLY Adaptive Cataract Treatment System.
- Procedure: Femto-second Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery (FLACS).
- Surgeon: SK Mishra. Patient: 61 years old.
- Offers micron-level precision, bladeless, computer-assisted surgery.

Name	Designation
Sudhir Dalal	GM, PNB
Subodh Sachan	Director, STPI
Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit	CISC, India
Brig. SK Mishra	Surgeon, AHRR
Om Birla	Lok Sabha Speaker
Harivansh Narayan Singh	Deputy Chairperson, Rajya Sabha
Devesh Chaturvedi	Agriculture Secretary, India
Thinley Namgyel	Agriculture Secretary, Bhutan