CURRENT AFFAIRS

India has one of the youngest populations with 62 per cent of the population in the working age group and 54 per cent below the age of 25. Thus India has the advantage of leveraging the skill and ability of our youth to drive the nation forward through productive output and innovation.

There are many reasons to cheer for all those committed to gender equality in 75 years of independence.Women empowerment at every sphere of life is reflected through there participation in education, employment, sex ratio etc.

The monsoon session of Parliament which ended recently was a disappointment in several ways. This was the fourth straight session that ended ahead of the original schedule — other than the cancelled winter 2020 session.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has released a report titled “Impact of Exemption under Article 15 (5) with regards to Article 21A of the Constitution of India on Education of Children in Minority Communities”.

Fifty years ago, India and the former Soviet Union had signed a Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation on August 9, 1971. Apart from changing the contours of South Asian and global politics, the treaty could also be seen as the harbinger of the idea of the Indo-Pacific between India and Russia.

Recently, the world has seen unexpected floods in Europe and China, record-breaking heat-waves in the United States, and deadly forest fires in Siberia, and Turkey and Greece. Amid gloomy predictions of a continued rise in the frequency and intensity of such extreme weather events, all attributable to global warming, scientists are set to present the most comprehensive health check-up of the Earth’s climate.

The Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) which is conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSO) every five years has not released the data  since 2011-12. The CES of 2017-18 was not made public by the Government of India and a new CES is likely to be conducted in 2021-22.

Energy transitions are gaining momentum worldwide, and India is no exception. The country has achieved the remarkable double leapfrog of connecting nearly all households to electricity while also creating one of the world’s largest markets for renewable energy.

Independent charitable organisation Oxfam has said that ‘net zero’ carbon targets that many countries have announced may be a “dangerous distraction” from the priority of cutting carbon emissions.

United Nations World Day against Trafficking in Persons is observed recently on 30 july. According to a child rights non-governmental organisation (NGO), between April 2020 and June 2021, an estimated 9,000 children have been rescued after being trafficked for labour in India.