Daily Practice Sheet 26 June 2020

June 26, 2020
Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
Category: DPS

On this Day

The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice is an integral part of the Charter.

Daily Prelims Topic

What is Environment Impact Assessment?
Inland waterways
- Number and Name
- Inland Waterway Authority of India
Glyphosate
HSN code
Art 371 A
Salami slicing strategy

Daily Mapping

Sugarcane cultivation areas in India

Daily Constitution

Article 371 A

Daily Facts

India –China Trade

India imported goods worth $70 billion from China in the financial year 2018-19
In 2019, total merchandise imports from China were to the tune of $ 85 billion. India exported just $ 30 bn worth merchandise to China.
Thus imports from China is 2.5 times of the export to China from India.
1% of India’s export was destined to China, whereas only 3% of China’s export came to India.
On the import side, 13.7% of India’s imports came China , whereas China saw an insignificant share of its imports coming from India. The two-way trade with China registered marginal growth, with Indian exports increasing from 3.9 per cent to 5.1 per cent between 2015 and 2019, while imports from China hovered around 15 per cent.
China accounts for a major share of India’s imports of antibiotics, nitrogen compounds, diodes and transistors, tubes and pipes of iron and steel, and electric accumulators, to take just a few examples.
China accounts for nearly 70 per cent of the bulk drugs imported by Indian pharma companies.

Source: Indian Express

Space Industry

Indian industry had a barely three per cent share in a rapidly growing global space economy which was already worth at least $360 billion.