CURRENT AFFAIRS

India has imposed an anti-dumping duty on five Chinese products, including certain aluminium goods and some chemicals, for five years to guard local manufacturers from cheap imports from the neighbouring country.

Recently, the Environment Ministry published draft regulations on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) which according to many experts, disregard the commitments made by the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016; the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016; and the Swachh Bharat Mission..

Concerns about “population explosion” have also given way to joy about a “demographic dividend” which is expected to give a push to economic growth due to the lower dependency ratio which results from having a larger proportion of the population in the working-age group.

The report of the fifth round of the NFHS which was released recently has a large volume of data that is openly accessible.It is the go-to source for many researchers and policy makers and is frequently used for various rankings by NITI Aayog.

The 3rd meeting of the India-Central Asia Dialogue was held in New Delhi on 19 December 2021 under the chairmanship of the External Affairs Minister of India in which Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Republic of Uzbekistan took part.

Manual scavenging is a shameful practice, eradication of which is not only the responsibility of the government but also of the society because manual scavenging is rooted in India’s historical system of hierarchy and exclusion: The caste system.

As per the 'World Inequality Report 2022', India is among the most unequal countries in the world, with rising poverty and an 'affluent elite. While India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it is also one of the most unequal countries.

The demand of farmers to provide a legal guarantee for the minimum support price (MSP) for their produce has triggered a nationwide debate as specialists  believe that to procure all the 23 crops on MSP would be “fiscally ruinous” and a logistical nightmare.

Recently, India voted against  a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) linking climate to security and questioning the need for the resolution when the issue is already being dealt under the UNFCCC or United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Recently at the Global Technology Summit in Delhi organized by the Ministry of External Affairs and Carnegie India, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said that democracies are facing unique challenges from technology and countries..