CURRENT AFFAIRS

India’s Unified Payments Interface (known as UPI) and Singapore’s PayNow were officially connected, allowing for a “real-time payment linkage”.

A five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India is presently hearing a set of cases popularly known as the “Maharashtra political controversy cases”.

On December 19, 2022, 188 country representatives adopted an agreement at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Canada to “halt and reverse” biodiversity loss by conserving 30% of the world’s land and 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030, known as the 30×30 pledge. 

India’s research and development (R&D) expenditure-GDP ratio of 0.7% is very low when compared to major economies and is much below the world average of 1.8%.

According to a report by IBM, The Asia-Pacific region continued to be the most attacked region in 2022 for the second consecutive year, accounting for 31% of all incidents remediated worldwide.

In 2020, India accounted for 20.6% of the worldwide population of 15 to 29 year olds, which means that in the years ahead, one out of every five workers deployed globally could be an Indian. 

Recently, the district administration of Ladakh designated six hamlets within the Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary a “dark-sky reserve” – an area whose skies were free of light pollution.

Within a month of retiring from the Supreme Court of India, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer has been appointed Governor of Andhra Pradesh.

The celebration by India and France of 25 years of their strategic partnership presents an important opportunity for both to introspect on their relations.

The West Bengal government announced that it was introducing an additional dose of injectable polio vaccine as part of the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) for children.