About the Exercise The Malabar exercise started in 1992 as a bilateral drill between the Indian Navy and the U.S. Navy in the Indian Ocean. Japan became a permanent member of the exercise in 2015. Following India’s invitation, Australia participated …
What are Electoral Bonds? An electoral bond is designed to be an interest-free bearer instrument like a Promissory Note — in effect, it will be similar to a bank note that is payable to the bearer on demand. It can …
What’s the news? UNESCO has warned that Glaciers at many UNESCO World Heritage sites including Yellowstone and Kilimanjaro National Park will likely vanish by 2050. The warning followed a study of 18,600 glaciers at 50 World Heritage sites covering around …
What’s the news? According to a recent study, Global warming is responsible for bigger and bigger fires in Siberia, and in the decades ahead they could release huge amounts of carbon now trapped in the soil. Researchers concentrated on an …
Context Several political leaders have called for implementing Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the country. Constitutional Provisions Article 44 contained in part IV of the Constitution says that the state “shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil …
About WMO WMO is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with 193 Member States and Territories. It is the UN system’s authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth’s atmosphere, its interaction with the land and …
Context: The disinvestment programme in its current form is not working as desired and thus needs to be reviewed. What is Disinvestment? Divestment or disinvestment means selling a stake in a company, subsidiary or other investments. Governments resort to divestment …
India’s logistics performance India ranked 44 in the logistics performance index-2018 prepared by the World Bank. India’s logistics costs add up to around 13 per cent of gross domestic product which is quite high compared to developed economies such as …
Context The steering committee of a global programme to end child marriage is on a visit to India to witness state interventions which have helped reduce the prevalence of child marriage. The visit by the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End …
Context On the assurance of the Attorney General that the Centre was looking at ways to facilitate distance voting for non-resident Indians (NRIs), mainly migrant labourers, the Supreme Court on November 1 disposed of a batch of petitions seeking remote …