Kaziranga Project: India and France are collaborating on Kaziranga Project. Agence Française de Développement (AFD) of France has committed funding of €80.2 million for a 10-year period, between 2014-2024. The Kaziranga project is a part of a larger Assam Project on Forest and Biodiversity Conservation (APFBC). The Assam government, with the support of AFD, launched […]
Report On Forced Displacement: UNDP
Report On Forced Displacement: UNDP According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report “Turning the tide on internal displacement: A development approach to solutions”, for the first time ever, more than 100 million people were forcibly displaced in 2022, most of them within their own countries. Findings of the Report: At the end of […]
Global Report On Health Equity For Disables
Global Report On Health Equity For Disables: Ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3rd December), the World Health Organization (WHO) has released a report titled- Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities. Findings of the Report: Currently, some 1.3 billion people, or one in six, worldwide suffer from major disabilities. […]
Food And Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Report
Food And Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Report: According to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) new report, The Future of Food and Agriculture — Drivers and triggers for transformation, the world will witness persistent food insecurity if agrifood systems remain the same. This report aims at inspiring strategic thinking and actions to transform agrifood systems towards […]
Mount Semeru Volcano Eruption
Mount Semeru Volcano Eruption: Mount Semeru volcano erupted recently triggering top alert status. It is located in Indonesia. It is one of the East Java Island’s tallest volcano. Semeru’s last major eruption was in December 2021. Semeru, also known as Mahameru, has erupted numerous times in the past 200 years. Indonesia is one of the […]
International Civil Aviation Organisation Ranking
International Civil Aviation Organisation Ranking: India is among the top 50 countries with best aviation safety in the latest ICAO rankings. In the rankings by the ICAO, India is now at the 48th position, a “quantum leap” from the 102nd rank it had in 2018. The rankings are for 187 countries and assessments were done […]
First Loss Default Guarantee (FLDG) System
First Loss Default Guarantee (FLDG) System: RBI Two months after the Reserve Bank issued guidelines on digital lending, banks, NBFCs and fintech players are still awaiting clarity on many aspects, including the FLDG system. FLDG is a lending model between a fintech and a regulated entity in which a third party guarantees to compensate up […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 5th December 2022
Today Current Affairs: 5th December 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Human Tiger conflicts : Increase In Number Of Incidents
Human Tiger conflicts : Increase In Number Of Incidents There is an increase in the number of incidents of Human- Tiger conflicts. Every four years, India carries out a census of the tiger population across India. The latest estimate put the tiger population at 2,967. Tigers were reportedly increasing at a rate of about 6% […]
Samruddhi Corridor
Samruddhi Corridor: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the first phase of the 701-km ‘Hindu Hrudayasamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg’ on December 11. The Expressway will reduce the time taken to 839-km distance between Nagpur and Mumbai, to seven hours. This currently takes at least 17 hours. The Expressway, also called Samruddhi corridor, built […]
