India’s Permanent Representative to the UN recently spoke in the UN General Assembly on ‘Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council’. He emphasised on reform of institutions like the UN, IMF, WTO and …
What is in the news? Recently Chief Justice of India, in Siddique Kappan journalist release case, said that the supreme court is “trying to discourage” individuals from filing petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution. CJI asked the journalist to …
About the scheme Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) is inspired by the vision of transformational change in rural development processes by leveraging knowledge institutions to help build the architecture of an Inclusive India. The program was formally launched by the Ministry …
About PARAM Siddhi is a high performance computing-artificial intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer established earlier this year, under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). The supercomputer with Rpeak of 5.267 Petaflops and 4.6 Petaflops Rmax (Sustained) …
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was signed into existence on Sunday by 15 countries led by China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and the 10-state ASEAN grouping, creating one of the world’s largest trading blocs. After seven years …
About G20 Founded in 1999, the Group of Twenty (G20) is the premier forum for its members’ international economic cooperation and decision-making. The G20 comprises Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, …
What are deemed forests? There are forests that are notified either with the forest department or revenue department. Then there are those areas that are like forests but are neither recorded, nor notified. While the concept of deemed forests has …
Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech about digitalisation and its role in human life at the Bengaluru Tech Summit. Highlights of PM’s speech India- a digital nation Affordable smartphones and Internet access have made India a digital nation with an …
About CORPAT CORPAT builds up the understanding and interoperability between navies of India & Thailand and facilitates the institution of measures to prevent and suppress Illegal Unreported Unregulated (IUU) fishing, drug trafficking, maritime terrorism, armed robbery and piracy. It has …