CURRENT AFFAIRS

Recently, the Supreme Court asked the Government, whether a focussed approach, something like Project Tiger, can be taken up for saving the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard (GIB).

The humanitarian crisis resulting from the COVID-19 lockdown, made it apparent that too many were still excluded from the PDS.

The disputed boundary has remained at the heart of India-China relations since and the convention of marking the territory through physical presence has been the trigger for violent clashes.

The Supreme Court recently said that religious conversions by means of force, allurement or fraud may “ultimately affect the security of the nation and freedom of religion and conscience of citizens” and asked the Centre to clarify what it was doing to curb such conversions.

According to the World Bank’s latest Migration and Development Brief titled, ‘Remittances Brave Global Headwinds’, India received $89.4 billion remittance in 2021 and will reach the $100 billion mark soon.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) recently released two reports that gave an indication of the global employment scenario post-pandemic.

This year marked the arrival of Namibian cheetahs to India, the first intercontinental transfer of wild cats with eight cheetahs being flown into the Kuno National Park (KNP), Madhya Pradesh.

In order to provide a safe environment for tourists, the Ministry of Tourism, in collaboration with the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD), organised a conference in New Delhi on October 19, 2022.

37 years ago on December 8, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established by Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to promote economic growth in South Asia and Afghanistan acceded to SAARC later.

Reservation was introduced as a short-term measure to give opportunities to classes of people who were socially and educationally backward and/or inadequately represented in education, employment, politics and other spheres.