CURRENT AFFAIRS

The announcement of the new Australia-U.K.-U.S. (AUKUS)  and the outcome of the recent Quad summit indicate that AUKUS will go on to form a key security arrangement of the Indo-Pacific region.

Recently, Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana made a plea to ‘Indianise’ courts to make them responsive to the needs of the Indian citizens. Despite good intentions, the nation’s judiciary is hurtling due to the pendency of cases in courts across the country.

The covid pandemic and subsequent restrictions posed serious economic turmoil where most  business plans and strategies faced near chaos. While the worst is over but economic glitches still remain in the economy.

The importance of effective governance and service delivery by city governments becomes important as Indians start to live in ‘smart cities’. In smart cities digital systems enable the use of data to continuously improve the functioning of cities.

Almost every year Floods have been a recurrent phenomenon in many parts of India specially in Bihar causing loss of lives and public property and bringing untold misery to the people.

Government shows restraints in giving data about migrants, frontline health workers who lost their lives during the pandemic, number of job losses, actual number of manual scavengers as well as people died due to lack of oxygen.

A recent report released by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) named as “Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region” revealed that India has warmed up 0.7° C during 1901-2018.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment recently  launched the e-Shram portal  to develop a national database of unorganised workers. The E-shram portal is for the unorganised sector workers to promote their social security.

The recent National Statistical Office (NSO) data estimated India’s economic growth surged to 20.1% in the April-June quarter. This shows a V shaped recovery of the indian economy.

The Union Cabinet recently approved a ₹30,600-crore backstop facility for guaranteeing securities to be issued by the National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd. (NARCL).The NARCL, also called ‘bad bank’, is being set up to help aggregate and consolidate lenders’ non-performing assets (NPAs) or bad loans.