CURRENT AFFAIRS

The fall of Kabul in the wake of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan will prove to be a defining moment for the region and the future shape of its geopolitics. For New Delhi, the fall of Kabul is a moment of reckoning and it must rethink its regional strategies and options.

The Indian economy has travelled through an eventful period through the last three decades. In the post-independence economic history of our country, 1991 stands out as a watershed year as the economy was faced with a severe balance of payments crisis.

The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), titled ‘Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis’, is the first of four that the Panel will issue over the next one and a half years.

India has one of the youngest populations with 62 per cent of the population in the working age group and 54 per cent below the age of 25. Thus India has the advantage of leveraging the skill and ability of our youth to drive the nation forward through productive output and innovation.

There are many reasons to cheer for all those committed to gender equality in 75 years of independence.Women empowerment at every sphere of life is reflected through there participation in education, employment, sex ratio etc.

The monsoon session of Parliament which ended recently was a disappointment in several ways. This was the fourth straight session that ended ahead of the original schedule — other than the cancelled winter 2020 session.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has released a report titled “Impact of Exemption under Article 15 (5) with regards to Article 21A of the Constitution of India on Education of Children in Minority Communities”.

Fifty years ago, India and the former Soviet Union had signed a Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation on August 9, 1971. Apart from changing the contours of South Asian and global politics, the treaty could also be seen as the harbinger of the idea of the Indo-Pacific between India and Russia.

Recently, the world has seen unexpected floods in Europe and China, record-breaking heat-waves in the United States, and deadly forest fires in Siberia, and Turkey and Greece. Amid gloomy predictions of a continued rise in the frequency and intensity of such extreme weather events, all attributable to global warming, scientists are set to present the most comprehensive health check-up of the Earth’s climate.

The Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) which is conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSO) every five years has not released the data  since 2011-12. The CES of 2017-18 was not made public by the Government of India and a new CES is likely to be conducted in 2021-22.