‘Greenprint for Chennai’ report launched at CoP 27 Subject : Environment Context: The Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, today launched a report titled ‘Greenprint for Chennai – Integrating Natural Infrastructure in City Planning’, at the COP27 international climate conference currently underway here. Concept: The report has been prepared […]
Digital Shakti program Subject: Environment Context: The National Commission for Women launched the 4th phase of the Digital Shakti Program. What is Digital Shakti Program: It is a pan-India project on digitally empowering and skilling women and girls in cyberspace and focuses on making women digitally skilled and aware to stand up against […]
Immunity against action for mp and mla SC appoints amicus Curiae Subject: Polity Context: The Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed senior advocate P S Patwalia as amicus curiae to assist it in examining whether an MP or MLA can claim immunity from criminal prosecution for taking bribe to make a speech or vote […]
Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act 1996 Subject: Polity Context: Recently, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act, had given more power to gram sabhas, which ensure that conversions and marriages done by “alluring” tribal women to get land notified as tribal land […]
India abstains from UN vote against Russia: Subject: Polity Context: India abstained in the UN General Assembly on a draft resolution seeking to hold Russia accountable for violations of international law by its invasion of Ukraine and requiring it to pay reparations for damage, loss and injury resulting from the war. What was […]
People in public office should not blabber disparaging things Subject: Polity Context: The Supreme Court reserved its judgment on whether free speech by public functionaries, including inter alia ministers, MLAs, MPs, should have greater restrictions than those imposed by Article 19 (2). The Five-Judge Constitution Bench consisting of Justices S A Nazeer, B […]
PM calls for new world order Subject: IR Context: PM Narendra Modi, while addressing the G20 session said that the Covid pandemic, climate change and Ukraine conflict have together caused “havoc in the world”, leaving supply chains “in ruins” and triggering a “crisis of essentials”, adding that the poor face a “more severe” […]
Attempt No. 3 for Artemis 1, with the promise of a new space age Subject: Science and Technology In news- At 1.04 am Eastern time in the United States on Wednesday (11.34 am in India), a two-hour window will open for NASA to make a third attempt to send its new 322-foot-tall, multi-billion-dollar […]
COP27: Climate vulnerable countries, G7 launch plan for quick loss and damage funding Subject: Environment Context: The Vulnerable Twenty (V20) group of finance ministers — representing 58 countries vulnerable to climate change — and the G7 (group of seven industrialised countries) launched the Global Shield Against Climate Risks initiative November 14, 2022. The […]
Water action plan at COP27 gives hope to drought-ravaged Africa Subject: Environment Context: World leaders at the 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change launched a water adaptation and resilience action plan on November 14, 2022. The initiative will have an Africa-first focus, giving hope to […]