CURRENT AFFAIRS

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.

The Reserve Bank of India launched the digital rupee on a pilot basis. The digital currency will be offered by a select group of public and private banks in a few major cities initially, which can be used for both person-to-person and person-to-merchant transactions.

For conservation of animals large land acquisition is not required, rather it is the small, strategic pieces of land that are crucial.

November 25 is celebrated every year as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Recently, the Supreme Court said the government pays mere “lip-service” to the independence of the Election Commissioners and this is evident from the way the tenures of Chief Election Commissioners (CECs) have “slid” down from over eight years in the 1950s to just about a few hundred days after 2004.

Recently, e-services at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were crippled by a suspected ransomware attack.

The Indian rupee has fallen more than 11 percent against the US dollar so far in 2022 and breached the much-feared 80-mark in July and went on to set record lows, touching 83 to a dollar late in October.