CURRENT AFFAIRS

India’s first Pan India time use survey- 2019, was released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation in early October.

India decided to withdraw from the RCEP due to the concern about the size of its trade deficit. The tension with China in Ladakh is also a factor.

The Union Home Ministry has notified new land laws for the UT of Jammu and Kashmir that came in force with immediate effect.

The Reserve Bank of India made a forecast in its latest monthly bulletin that India is in a technical recession.

In the recently held 17^th ASEAN -India summit on virtual platform, alternate supply chains, South China Sea were the key focuses, both reaffirming the importance of "upholding 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea UNCLOS".

The Mining is indispensable for the individual, for the society, and for the development of the nations.

Reduced to mere advisory bodies, India’s pollution control boards are unable to regulate air quality.

The 15^th Finance Commission is learnt to have recommended that states get 41% of central tax revenues, the same level that it proposed in its interim report for 2020-21 a year ago.

India has shared moments under the presidency of Trump, having too many shades, be it unwarranted interference in Kashmir issue by the US President or his browbeating on supply

Vietnam’s total merchandise exports grew at an annualised average rate of 18 per cent in the last 10 years till 2019, as compared with India’s 5 per cent.