CURRENT AFFAIRS

Recently, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders launched a short hunger strike seeking early passage of the long-pending Women’s Reservation Bill.

The world today is home to a transformative generation of 900 million adolescent girls and young women poised to shape the future of work and growth.

Country faces the H3N2 subtype of seasonal influenza which has infected rising numbers of people.

Recently, social workers rescued a 14-year-old girl from a Gurugram home where she was employed as a domestic worker.

There are around 100 waste-to-energy projects around the country but only a handful of them are operational, thanks to various production and operation challenges.

Recently, at the United Nations Least Developed Countries (LDC) Summit that concluded on March 9 in Doha, Qatar, the landlocked Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan will no longer be on the list of LDCs and will become only the seventh country to graduate from the list.

Recently, the Finance Ministry said that all virtual digital assets (VDAs) will come within the ambit of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA).

Recently, the UN member states agreed on a historic treaty for protecting marine life in international waters that lie outside the jurisdiction of any country, marking the culmination of over a decade of negotiations to protect the high seas that cover nearly two-thirds of the global ocean.

The rural-urban continuum or urban-rural continuum has drawn wide attention in recent years.

After assuming the G-20 presidency, India stated that its agenda would be inclusive, ambitious, action-oriented, and decisive with primary objectives to build global consensus over critical development...