Context The Global Dashboard for Vaccine Equity, a joint effort by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the University of Oxford with cooperation across the UN system, has put out recent data that justifies …
Context: There is a view that Free trade agreements (FTAs) had not served India well, and had even actively damaged Indian industry. However this article highlights that they have not been a disaster for Indian industry, but India has not …
Context: It has been two years since the signing of the historic Abraham Accords agreement. What is Abraham Accord? The Abraham Accord is a collaboration between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain mediated by the USA. It is the …
Context Russia hosted the seventh Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) Vladivostok from September 5 to 8. The four-day forum is a platform for entrepreneurs to expand their businesses into Russia’s Far East (RFE). What is the Eastern Economic Forum? The EEF …
Why in News? Recently, The US House of Representatives passed a legislative amendment that exempts India from economic sanctions under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) , for purchasing the S-400 missile defence system from Russia in 2018. …
Why in News: The India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will send a team of its experts to Pawanpur village, in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra to investigate what is believed to be remnants of a disintegrated Chinese rocket. Space debris …
Why in News: India aspires to have a permanent presence with more research and satellite ground stations in the Arctic region, suggests a perusal of its Arctic Policy document. About Arctic Arctic region, the enormous area around the North Pole …
What’s in the news? A special flight under Operation Ganga carrying 146 Indian nationals from Ukraine has landed at Hindon Airbase from Romanian capital Bucharest. Over 3,700 Indians have returned on 17 special flights after fleeing Ukraine and reaching its …
Why in News: The Russian invasion is making the global chip shortage situation worse. How did the shortage crisis begin? After reaching its peak in 2011, the laptop market growth slowed down with the rise of alternatives such as smartphones …
Context China’s status as a ‘developing country’ at the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become a contentious issue with a number of countries raising concerns over the upper middle-income nation deriving benefits reserved for developing countries under WTO norms. Moreover, …