CURRENT AFFAIRS

The COP26 summit propelled several countries to scale up their climate ambitions and particularly marked a turning point for India, with a commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2070.

Last year, new guidelines took effect to completely de-regulate the geospatial sector for Indians so after a year, it is time to look back and assess its impact and identify the bottlenecks so that the full potential of the geospatial sector can be realised.

The pandemic has brought to the fore the fragility of the global supply chain of semiconductor manufacturing; however, the supply disruptions would not worsen in 2022 as the Omicron surge should have a milder impact on the chip supply chain.

Recently, the CRUSHED Report 2021 released by Safe in India (SII), portrays a dismal picture concerning occupational safety and health in the auto sector.

India has formally inked its first major defence system export deal with the Philippines, signing a $375 million contract for the BrahMos shore-based anti-ship missile system.

Cyber attacks may be a relatively new phenomenon, but in a short time frame have come to be assessed as dangerous as terrorism because of ever-evolving nature of security risks.

The petition by the Haryana government to remove the stay on the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, or the Haryana Act will soon be heard by the Supreme Court.

People donate money to charity because they believe in the causes they support, or the quality of work that some NGOs are doing, or because they are committed citizens. Thus, a systematic study of the impact of tax incentives on charitable donations is the need of the hour.

India’s fiscal deficit (for the Centre) in FY22 is expected to be 6.8% of the GDP and when considering the debts of States as well, this jumps to about 12.7% of the GDP (as of FY21).

In the Budget presented for 2022-23, the Finance Minister had announced the introduction of India’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and that the digital rupee would give a ‘big boost’ to the digital economy.