Limitations of India at SCO  ✓Since China and Russia are co-founders of SCO and its dominant powers, India’s ability to assert itself would be limited and it may have to content itself to playing the second fiddle. ✓In addition, India may also have to either dilute its growing ...

Gold jewellery export India’s gold jewellery exports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) rose by a sharp 42% in two months of a free trade pact coming into effect in May 2022. Overall exports to the UAE in May-June, 2022 touched USD 5.4 billion, a 17% growth from a year ago. What benefited ...

Economy: Energy Trade between India and Iran ✓India-Iran commercial ties have traditionally been dominated by Indian import of Iranian crude oil. ✓India is the second largest buyer of Iranian crude after China and Iran was the third largest supplier of crude to India (April-Sep 2016). ...

GI tag to Mithila Makhana The  government has recently awarded the GI tag to Mithila Makhana. The move is expected to help growers get the maximum price for their premium produce. Mithila Makhana ✓Mithila Makhana or Makhan (botanical name: Euryale ferox Salisb.) is a special ...

The Great Barrier Reef’s recovery and vulnerability to climate threats- ✓The highest levels of coral cover, within the past 36 years, has been recorded in the northern and central parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR), according to the annual long term monitoring report by the ...

Ashgabat Agreement ◽ It is a transit pact established in 2011 between Uzbekistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Oman. Kazhakstan joined subsequently and Pakistan joined in 2016. Indian joined the agreement in 2017. ✓Ashgabat Agreement is a transit pact signed in 2011 between Uzbekistan, ...

✓The Drought this summer led to drying of water bodies exposing submerged World War II relics in Europe, several sets of human remains at Lake Mead outside Las Vegas, and even an entire village in Spain. ● Latest Findings: ✓Drought conditions at Dinosaur Valley State Park texas, exposed ...

India-Uzbekistan ✓Uzbekistan is bordered by five landlocked countries: Kazakhstan to the north; Kyrgyzstan to the northeast; Tajikistan to the southeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the southwest. Uzbekistan is a major producer and exporter of cotton.The country also operates ...

Recently, National skill development corporation  in partnership with Seva Bharti and Yuva Vikas Society, launched the second phase of the Grameen Udyami Project. ✓Under the initiative, the endeavor is to multiskill India’s youth and impart functional skills to them for enabling livelihoods. ...

New norms for overseas investment Recently, The Ministry of Finance noticed new norms making it easier for domestic corporates to invest abroad, while making it tougher for loan defaulters and those facing a probe by investigative agencies to invest in overseas entities. Key Highlights of ...

Indian Initiatives related to Bioeconomy For Biopharma: National Biopharma Mission, ‘Innovate India’ 2017, a Department of Biotechnology (DBT) programme worth US$ 250 million, aims to bring together industry and academia in order to promote entrepreneurship and indigenous manufacturing in ...

Initiative Indian Government taken for Menstrual Hygiene? ✓Shuchi Scheme: It aims aimed at instilling awareness about menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls. It was started in 2013-14 initially as a Centrally-sponsored one. However, the Centre asked States to take over the scheme ...