Context: There is speculation in the media that New Delhi could soon invite Australia to join the Malabar naval exercises to be held later this year. This article explains that India’s plan for naval coalition building alone will not credibly …
About Manodarpan: Manodarpan initiative provides psycho- social support and counseling to students for their mental health and well being. Under the initiative, the Minister of Human Resource Development launched a toll-free national helpline number ( 8448440632), a website of Manodarpan …
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 brings together the leaders of both developed and developing countries from every continent. The G20 …
What is the National Population Register? The National Population Register (NPR) is a Register of usual residents of the country. It is a comprehensive identity database maintained by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of …
About the exercise Malabar began as a bilateral naval exercise between India and the U.S. in 1992, and was expanded into a trilateral format with the inclusion of Japan in 2015. Australia has been requesting for observer status in the …
What are they? Economic integration takes the form of the Preferential Trade Area, Free Trade Area, Customs Union, Common Market and Economic Union. A preferential trade area (PTA) is a trading bloc that gives preferential access to certain products from …
About European Union The European Union (EU) is a unique economic and political union between 27 EU countries. The United Kingdom, which had been a founding member of the EU, left the organization in 2020. The EU was created by …
What’s in the news? “Retrofit of Air-conditioning to improve Indoor Air Quality for Safety and Efficiency” (RAISE) national programme has been launched to potentially alleviate the issue of bad air quality in workspaces across the nation and pioneer ways to …
About Hope mission of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is the Arab region’s first attempt to go interplanetary. The spacecraft will spend seven months trekking through deep space before slipping into orbit around Mars. From that point, Hope will spend …