Subject: IR Context: Ministry of External Affairs has announced that it will participate in the virtual meeting of the Russia-India-China (RIC) grouping scheduled to be held on 23rd June, 2020. Concept: RIC is a strategic grouping, conceived by the then Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov in 1998. But the idea of meeting at the leader’s level on a more […]
Subject: IR Context: US government has extended the 60-day ban on immigration and non-immigrant worker visas till the end of 2020. The suspension of H-1B and other work will likely to have a severe impact on majority of Indian IT companies Concept: The lottery-based H-1B visas allow US companies to employ foreign workers temporarily in specialised occupations […]
Subject: IR Context: Government of India and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) here today signed a $750 million “COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Programme” to assist India to strengthen its response to the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on poor and vulnerable households. Concept: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a […]
Subject: IR Context: China through its military action at Galwan in Ladakh, which resulted in three killed on the Indian side, has violated three key bilateral agreements — 1993, 1996 and 2013 that have been central to maintaining peace and tranquility on the disputed Line of Actual Control. Concept: 1993 agreement The 1993 agreement clearly states that in case personnel from […]
Subject:IR Context: India is elected to the non-permanent seat of the Security Council for the term 2021-22 with overwhelming support. India gets 184 out of the 192 valid votes polled Concept: The UNSC is composed of 15 members: five permanent members, and 10 non-permanent members who are elected by the General Assembly. The non-permanent members […]
Subject:IR Context: Turkish diplomat VolkanBozkir was elected president of 75th UN General Assembly. Concept: The term United Nations was first coined by the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was first used as a collective pledge of representatives of 26 nations on the 1st January, 1942, as a commitment to continue to fight against the […]
Subject: IR Context: India is expected to have a comfortable victory in the Security Council elections that will make India non-permanent member for the 2021-22 term Concept: The UN Security Council is the premier global body for maintaining international peace and security, but it faces steady calls for reform to better meet twenty-first–century challenges. The […]
Subject: IR/Science and tech Context: China and Pakistan possess more nuclear weapons than India, according to a new yearbook released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Concept: Findings: The nine nuclear-armed states—the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) together […]
Subject: IR Context: India becomes founding member of global alliance on AI Concept: GPAI is an international and multi-stakeholder initiative to guide the responsible development and use of AI, grounded in human rights, inclusion, diversity, innovation, and economic growth. This is also a first initiative of its type for evolving better understanding of the challenges […]
Subject: IR Context: India is looking to post Navy Liaison Officers at the Regional Maritime Information Fusion Centre (RMIFC) in Madagascar and also at the European maritime surveillance initiative in the Strait of Hormuz for improved Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA). Concept: The RMFIC functions under the aegis of the IOC, of which India became an […]