CURRENT AFFAIRS

The disputed boundary has remained at the heart of India-China relations since and the convention of marking the territory through physical presence has been the trigger for violent clashes.

The Supreme Court recently said that religious conversions by means of force, allurement or fraud may “ultimately affect the security of the nation and freedom of religion and conscience of citizens” and asked the Centre to clarify what it was doing to curb such conversions.

According to the World Bank’s latest Migration and Development Brief titled, ‘Remittances Brave Global Headwinds’, India received $89.4 billion remittance in 2021 and will reach the $100 billion mark soon.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) recently released two reports that gave an indication of the global employment scenario post-pandemic.

This year marked the arrival of Namibian cheetahs to India, the first intercontinental transfer of wild cats with eight cheetahs being flown into the Kuno National Park (KNP), Madhya Pradesh.

In order to provide a safe environment for tourists, the Ministry of Tourism, in collaboration with the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD), organised a conference in New Delhi on October 19, 2022.

37 years ago on December 8, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established by Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to promote economic growth in South Asia and Afghanistan acceded to SAARC later.

Reservation was introduced as a short-term measure to give opportunities to classes of people who were socially and educationally backward and/or inadequately represented in education, employment, politics and other spheres.

World Soil Day (WSD) 2022 observed on December 5 with its guiding theme, ‘Soils: Where food begins’, is a means to raise awareness on the importance of maintaining healthy soils, ecosystems and human well-being by addressing..

At COP27, the policy debate was no longer legitimized by science as there seems to be a concerted effort to fraudulently change the basic structure of the Climate Treaty.