CURRENT AFFAIRS

Recently, India hosted the Third Ministerial ‘No Money for Terror’ conference in New Delhi following two other important meetings hosted by India i.e. The United Nations (UN) Security Council’s special meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Committee...

At the COP27 conference, Secretary-General of the United Nations (U.N.), António Guterres said, “We must have zero tolerance for net-zero greenwashing.”

India is negotiating FTAs with countries such as the European Union, Canada, the U.K., and Israel to achieve the export target of $2 trillion by 2030.

Recently the office of Governor is in frequent news due to the conduct of the Governors of some States which according to experts, undermine constitutional provisions, constitutional morality, and constitutional ethos.

According to the World Bank, India would need to invest $840 billion over the next 15 years, that is, an average of $55 billion each year, to meet the demands of its fast-growing urban population.

Recently the government gave extension to the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), a scheme to distribute free foodgrains to the poor, for another three months.

 India’s retail inflation dropped to a three-month low of 6.77% in October when compared to the same month last year. 

The Supreme Court, by a 3:2 majority, has upheld the validity of the Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act, 2019, providing reservation up to 10% for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in education and employment among those groups that do not come under any community-based reservation.

The requirement of data localisation strengthens the protection of personal data, as all of us while using the internet are sending data in some manner or form.

The government pushed to set up 740 Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) for tribal students — one each in every sub-district that has at least a 20,000-odd Scheduled Tribe population, which must be 50% of the total population in that area.