Poverty And Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course The World Bank released a report titled “Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course”. Findings of the Report: Global poverty reduction has been slowing down since 2015 but the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine have completely reversed the outcomes. By 2015, the global extreme-poverty rate had […]
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Climate Risk Index For Marine Life
Climate Risk Index For Marine Life: A new study was published titled Climate Risk Index for Marine Life, which captures the climate risk for nearly 25,000 marine species and their ecosystems. This new index lays the groundwork for supporting climate-smart approaches to managing and conserving marine life. Findings Warming oceans and climate extremes are driving […]
Nobel Prize In Literature 2022
Nobel Prize In Literature 2022: The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux ”for“the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. Her more than 20 books, many of which have been school texts in France for decades, offer one […]
Infant Mortality Rate
Infant Mortality Rate: The country’s female Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) dropped to same level as males India has registered a decline in female infant mortality rate. In sixteen states, IMR remained higher for female babies than male but the gap had reduced since 2011. According to Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2020, Chhattisgarh had the […]
Digital Services Act
Digital Services Act: The European Union (EU) has given final approval to online safety-focused legislation, which is an overhaul of the region’s social media and e-commerce rules Digital Services Act (DSA), the law tightly regulates the way intermediaries, especially large platforms such as Google, Meta, Twitter, and YouTube, function in terms of moderating user […]
Quality Council Of India (QCI)
Quality Council Of India (QCI): The Quality Council of India is set to celebrate its Silver Jubilee at the Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi Quality Council of India was set up in 1997, jointly by the Government of India and the Indian Industry represented by the three premier industry associations i.e. Associated Chambers of […]
US-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership
US-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership: Ministerial dialogue of US-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (USISCEP) to be held on 7th October 2022. The revamped USISCEP was launched in accordance with U.S.-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership announced by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden at the Leaders’ Summit on Climate held […]
United Nations Peacekeeping
United Nations Peacekeeping: The United Nations peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix is undertaking a visit to India, among the largest troop contributing countries for its operations. Jean-Pierre Lacroix will visit India, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Japan starting from October 6. He will participate in a two-day meeting organised by the Challenges Forum, the event […]
Nobel Prize In chemistry 2022
Nobel Prize In chemistry 2022: The 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry” Sharpless was the first scientist to work on ‘click chemistry’ – a branch of science that explores the assembly of molecules. Meldal and […]
World’s Largest Producer And Consumer Of Sugar
World’s Largest Producer And Consumer Of Sugar: India emerges as the world’s largest producer and consumer of sugar and world’s 2nd largest exporter of sugar. In Sugar Season (Oct-Sep) 2021-22, a record of more than 5000 Lakh Metric Tons (LMT) sugarcane was produced in the country. Out of this, 35 LMT sugar was diverted to […]
