CURRENT AFFAIRS

The Seattle City Council became the first U.S. city to ban caste-based discrimination. It now includes caste as a class to be protected against discrimination, alongside race, gender, and religion.

On the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow was unilaterally suspending the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty with the U.S. i.e.New START nuclear treaty.

The excavations from Keeladi in 2015 prove that an urban civilisation existed in Tamil Nadu in the Sangam age on the banks of the Vaigai river.

Recently, the government officials informed that 20 Russian banks have opened Special Rupee Vostro Accounts (SRVA) with partner banks in India.

India’s Unified Payments Interface (known as UPI) and Singapore’s PayNow were officially connected, allowing for a “real-time payment linkage”.

A five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India is presently hearing a set of cases popularly known as the “Maharashtra political controversy cases”.

On December 19, 2022, 188 country representatives adopted an agreement at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Canada to “halt and reverse” biodiversity loss by conserving 30% of the world’s land and 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030, known as the 30×30 pledge. 

India’s research and development (R&D) expenditure-GDP ratio of 0.7% is very low when compared to major economies and is much below the world average of 1.8%.

According to a report by IBM, The Asia-Pacific region continued to be the most attacked region in 2022 for the second consecutive year, accounting for 31% of all incidents remediated worldwide.

In 2020, India accounted for 20.6% of the worldwide population of 15 to 29 year olds, which means that in the years ahead, one out of every five workers deployed globally could be an Indian.