CURRENT AFFAIRS

The Supreme Court while quashing two judgments of the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court said that the most important ingredient for constituting an offence of sexual assault under Section 7 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act is the “sexual intent”, and not the “skin-to-skin” contact with the child”.

NITI Aayog recently published a road map document entitled “Health Insurance for India’s Missing Middle”. The report confounds all hopes and expectations of a credible pathway to universal health coverage (UHC) for India.

Recently at the G20 in Rome and COP26 in Glasgow, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke at nearly a dozen events, expanding on India’s plans to counter climate change.

UNESCO Member States have declared the first Thursday of November as the International Day against Violence and Bullying at School, including cyberbullying.

Russia has started supplying the S-400 Triumf  air defence system to India which has also thrown down the gauntlet to the U.S. that threatened sanctions against India.

Bats provide some direct benefits to humans but  due to their physiology, bats are one type of animal that acts as a natural reservoir of many pathogens and since they are highly mobile, social, and long-lived, they can readily spread diseases.

In a major intelligence based operation 26 naxals were killed in a police operation in Gadchiroli district of Vidarbha region in Maharashtra. The proscribed Communist Party of India (Maoist) has faced setbacks in its “protracted armed struggle” against the Indian state.

Recently, India hosted the  third Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan chaired by NSA Ajit Doval. The participants discussed the evolving situation in Afghanistan, especially the security situation and its regional and global ramifications.

The demonetisation of high-value currency in India in 2016 is a classic case of policy based on popular narratives in economic policymaking than economists and policymakers acknowledge.

Recently G20 leaders met for a two-day summit hosted by the Italian G20 presidency in Rome. Leaders met to address today’s most pressing global challenges and to converge upon common efforts to recover better from the COVID-19 crisis and enable sustainable and inclusive growth across the world.