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According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the nuclear-monitoring arm of the United Nations, Iran had amassed 2,967.8 kilograms of uranium — roughly 14 times the limit under the nuclear accord and theoretically enough to power about three atomic bombs if refined to weapons grade. The stockpile includes 17.6 kilograms enriched to 20 percent — also forbidden under the accord until the year 2030.
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✅According to the UN Office for Drugs and Crime, South Asia, with India at its centre, is the fastest-growing and
second-largest region for human trafficking in the world, after East Asia.
✅ Even according to government data released recently, almost 20,000 women and children were victims of human trafficking in India in 2016, a rise of nearly 25% from the previous year.
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#Internal_security
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🔆CO2 Emission by Countries
✅India is 3rd largest emitter [Maximum from Energy Sector where coal is being used]
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🔹 Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into India grew 10% in 2020-21.
🔹 Singapore emerged as the top investor with almost a third of all investments, followed by the U.S. which accounted for 23% of FDI and Mauritius from where 9% of the foreign capital flows originated.
🔹 Gujarat was the top FDI destination in the year gone by, accounting for 37% of the foreign equity inflows followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka.
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according to the Ministry of Agriculture, only 19% (12 Mha) of the net irrigated area (68 Mha) is under micro-irrigation. In this regard, let us discuss about the Prospects and challenges associated with the adoption of Micro-Irrigation in India.
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Cost of 1GB of mobile data:
India 🇮🇳: $0.09 (lowest)
Israel 🇮🇱: $0.11
United States 🇺🇸: $8
Canada 🇨🇦: $12.55
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Arms imports decreased by 33% between 2011–15 and 2016–20 while India continues to remain the second largest arms importer after Saudi Arabia, according to a report from Swedish think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. John F. Kennedy
#essay
#ethics
#education
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India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan were among countries that need to act urgently against trans-fat according to World Health Organization (WHO).
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The unemployment rate in India rose to 7.2 percent in February 2019, the highest since September 2016, and also up from 5.9 percent in February 2018, according to the latest data compiled by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).
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Durga Shakti Nagpal: The 2010-batch IAS officer had a tryst with land-related corruption during her training period in Punjab and was exposed to a land scam. She was soon appointed as a
Sub-Divisional Magistrate in Gautam Buddh Nagar in Greater Noida. However, at the time she joined, illegal sand mining was wreaking havoc in the lives of the poor farmers. In the wee hours of midnight, the mafia would dredge the land to procure sand for construction. This, in turn, reduced the ground levels, making the area prone to floods. Field after field of crop was devastated from the mining operations, but the farmers could not raise a voice against the powerful criminals. The miners had struck gold by smuggling sand, causing an irreparable loss to the state treasury. But, it was almost impossible to lay a finger on them. They were established as the local power lords who controlled the law of the land. The average villager dreaded crossing their path. Theft, extortion, harassment, and even murder were reported regularly. When 27-year-old Nagpal first learnt about the problem, she decided to take a bold stance against the crime, notwithstanding the personal risk. To catch hold of the culprits in action, Nagpal arranged midnight raids in the deserted lands. From 2-3 a.m. every day, she would monitor these areas with her trained armada. She and her team saw trucks, and caught hold of the drivers. Through them, she reached the bigwigs. During the day, she approached the local public to call her whenever they spotted or suspected any illegal activities. Many came forward with genuine leads, overcoming their fears.
The raids continued for around two weeks, during which time Nagpal managed to put over 90 miners behind bars. She also recovered around Rs 150 crore of royalty
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According to the agreement the U.S. signed with the Taliban in February 2020, American troops are set to leave Afghanistan by May 1. The Taliban and the Afghan government started peace talks in Doha in September last year but reached no breakthrough.
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✅India imports 85% of its oil needs.
✅The Middle East accounts for 60% of all oil bought by India while Latin America and Africa are the other big supplier blocks.
✅ India is the world’s third-largest consumer of oil.
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According to the report, India is estimated to record an economic growth of 7% in 2021-22, over a contraction of 7.7% witnessed in the previous fiscal on account of the pandemic’s impact on normal business activity.
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A study by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) indicates that 93% of women farmers who receive training alongside financial support succeed in their ventures, compared to the 57% success rate of those who receive financial aid alone.
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✅As the world enters the third decade of the 21st century, 152 million children around the world are still in child labour, 73 million of them in hazardous work.
✅A Government of India survey (NSS Report No. 585, 2017-18, Statement 3.12,p.35) suggests that 95% of the children in the age group of 6-13 years are attending educational institutions (formal and informal) while the corresponding figures for those in the age group of 14-17 years is 79.6%.
✅ The Census of India 2011 reports 10.1 million working children in the age group of 5-14 years, out of whom 8.1 million are in rural areas mainly engaged as cultivators (26%) and agricultural labourers (32.9%).
✅While multiple data vary widely on enrolment/ attendance ratios in India,
UNESCO estimates based on the 2011 Census record 38.1 million children as “out of school” (18.3% of total children in the age group of 6-13 years).
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According to UNCLOS, the EEZ is an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea, subject to
the specific legal regime under which the rights and jurisdiction of the coastal State and the rights and freedoms of other States are governed by the relevant provisions of this Convention.
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According to global trade data, trade restrictiveness index is 2 to 9 times higher for imports from South Asia than rest ofthe world in case of India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
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World Bank data reveal that India had 85.7 physicians per 1,00,000 people in 2017 (in contrast to 98 in Pakistan, 58 in Bangladesh, 100 in Sri Lanka and 241 in Japan),
🔹 53 beds per 1,00,000 people (in contrast to 63 in Pakistan, 79.5 in Bangladesh, 415 in Sri Lanka and 1,298 in Japan), and
🔹 172.7 nurses and midwives per 1,00,000 people (in contrast to 220 in Sri Lanka, 40 in Bangladesh, 70 in Pakistan, and 1,220 in Japan).
🔹Health is a State subject in India and State spending constitutes 68.6% of all the government health expenditure.
🔹In union budget 2021the healthcare expenditure has increased from 1.2% to 2.5% of GDP.
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According to the NITI Aayog's Composite Water Management Index (CMWI) report, India is presently staring at the worst water crisis in its history. The solution lies in the adoption of micro-irrigation techniques in the Indian agriculture, which consumes around 85% of the
water.
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U.S. and Canadian oil accounted for about 7% and 1.3% respectively of India’s imports compared to 4.5% and 0.60% a year earlier.
The U.S. emerged as the fifth-biggest supplier, up two places from FY20.
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In urban India, 50 million people in 15 cities have no access to safe, affordable drinking water, reveals a UNICEF India report.
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According to the CWMI report, adopting micro-irrigation techniques can save roughly 20% of the groundwater used annually on irrigation in India.
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According to the 2020 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), up to 135 million people were living in food crises in 2019 – up from 113 million a year earlier.
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According to the United Nations, over two billion people live in countries experiencing high water stress.
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According to the state Water Resources Department, Rajasthan, the largest state of India with a geographical area of 342.52 lakh hectares which amount to 10.4 per cent of the entire country, holds only 1.16 per cent of India’s surface water and 1.72 per cent of groundwater.
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There is an increasing trend in the number of cases of diphtheria globally, as the number of cases in 2018 (16,651) was double the 1996–2017 average (8,105). Relevant to India is the statistic that 50% of the cases that came up in 2018 were in India.
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A mosquito protein, called AEG12, strongly inhibits the family of viruses that cause yellow fever, dengue, West Nile, and Zika, and also weakly inhibits coronaviruses, according to scientists at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators.
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🔆The Index of Industrial Production (IIP)
✅ IIP measures variations in the production volume of a basket of industrial goods during a month period.
✅It calculates the data of eight core sectors .
✅The Eight Core Industries comprise 40.27 per cent of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).
🔸 Refinery products (28.04%)
🔸Electricity (19.85%)
🔸 Steel (17.92%)
🔸 Coal (10.33%)
🔸 Crude oil (8.98%)
🔸 Natural gas (6.88%)
🔸Cement (5.37%)
🔸 Fertilisers (2.63%)
✅ Index of Eight Core Industries is released by Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
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As per census data from 2011, 65.1% of the total female workers (main and marginal workers) in the country are involved in agriculture.
Women form 32.9% of the total cultivators, 38.9% of the total agricultural labourers and 39.02% of the total agricultural
workers.
Source: Census 2011.