CURRENT AFFAIRS

The month-long Kashi Tamil Sangamam heralded a new era where ancient Indian traditions intermingle with one another and are revitalized with the help of modern practices so that they contribute to cultural and economic growth.

Due to the ever-increasing importance of the internet and the rapid digital transformation on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital divide widens and has the potential to be the “new face of inequality”.

The recent report on child mortality i.e. Levels and Trends in Child Mortality by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME) estimates that globally, five million children died before their fifth birthday (under-five mortality) in 2021.

Central government agencies and experts are assisting Uttarakhand to prepare short-, medium- and long-term plans to deal with the Joshimath situation.

The Additional Registrar General of India communicated to States on January 2 that the date of freezing of administrative boundaries has been extended till June 30. 

Among the many regional organisations in the Global South, the BIMSTEC is a platform which offers an excellent template for understanding the complexities of engagement among countries which are at different stages of political and economic maturity, and with compound domestic challenges.

The G20 presidency provides India the opportunity to make significant progress on critical issues which includes debt relief, regulation of cryptocurrencies, and climate finance.

In the face of the dynamic economic and financial shifts of the 2010s, the worldwide pandemic, and economic, social, and political disruptions caused by it BRICS members still find room for alignment of interests.

With growing urban pressures, cities now generate half of the global waste and 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to pollution, climate change and ecological degradation.

India’s taking over the G20 presidency from Indonesia is significant because it makes India the middle of the triad (Indonesia, India, and Brazil) from the global south to preside over the G20.