The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights which is mandated to spread child rights literacy held a one day Orientation cum Sensitization programme on ‘Child Rights: Contemporary Challenges in Telangana’ in Hyderabad which was inaugurated by the Governor of Telangana and Lt. Governor of Puducherry, Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan.
Priyank Kanoongo is the chairperson of the NCPCR.
The Indian Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), under the aegis of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways is organizing the ‘PM Gati Shakti Multimodal Waterways Summit’ on 11th - 12th November, 2022.
The summit will bring about greater awareness about the PM Gati Shakti National Masterplan with focus on infrastructure development in the waterways.
National Waterway 1 (Haldia to Allahabad) is the longest national waterway in India.
The Report of Expert Committee on SVAMITVA Scheme was released during the National Conference on SVAMITVA Scheme and Rural Planning held on 3rd November, 2022 at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The report, released by Sunil Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, provides the guiding principles that States may adopt in order to realize the objectives of the SVAMITVA Scheme.
SVAMITVA Scheme is implemented by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
The assessment was carried out jointly by Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and States/UTs, which can be used for taking suitable interventions by various stake-holders. As per the 2022 assessment report, the total annual ground water recharge for the entire country is 437.60 billion cubic meters (BCM) and annual ground water extraction for the entire country is 239.16 BCM.
Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman approves the final Sovereign Green Bonds framework of India.
The approval is fulfillment of the announcement in the Union Budget FY 2022-23 by the Union Finance Minister that Sovereign Green Bonds will be issued for mobilising resources for green projects.
A green bond is used to raise money for climate and environmental projects.
Bangladesh and the IMF reached a preliminary agreement under which the global lender will provide a USD 4.5 billion support package to stabilise its economy and protect the vulnerable people.
Bangladesh is the third South Asian nation after Sri Lanka and Pakistan to secure a bailout package from the IMF to tide over the sharp rise in food and energy prices.
Managing Director and Chairperson of IMF: Kristalina Georgieva (from Bulgaria).
China plans to incorporate 11 million hectares of wetlands into its national park system and implement about 30 wetland restoration projects.
The pledges were made during 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, or Ramsar COP14, which is being jointly held in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and Geneva in Switzerland.
Ramsar Convention, named after city of Ramsar(Iran), where convention was signed in 1971.
The government has declared as critical information infrastructure certain databases related to the Census and the National Population Register (NPR).
In a notification, the Union home ministry said the decision has been taken after exercising the powers conferred to it under the Information Technology Act, 2000, (Amended 2008).
The Information Technology Act of 2000 defines Critical Information Infrastructure.
Spain and Senegal have launched the International Drought Resilience Alliance (IDRA), which is joined by 29 countries, including China, the United States and Portugal, the European Union and 30 organisations.
The IDRA was launched by Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and Senegalese president, Macky Sall, in Egypt, during the 27th UNCCC (COP 27).
As of now, India is not a part of IDRA.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has successfully completed a mother tongue survey with field videography of 576 languages and dialects across the country.
The home ministry said the Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) is a regular research activity in the country since the 6th Five Year Plan.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman announced that the Kingdom will commit $2.5 billion for the Middle East Green Initiative over the next 10 years.
This year’s Middle East Green Initiative summit is co-chaired by the Saudi Crown Prince and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
DRDO launched the hull module of the Submersible Platform for Acoustic Characterization and Evaluation (SPACE) facility at Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) in Kochi recently.
It is a state-of-the-art testing and evaluation facility for sonar systems developed for use by the Indian Navy onboard various platforms, including ships, submarines and helicopters.
Two people in the U.K. are the first ever to receive transfusions of lab-grown red blood cells.
The pair are healthy volunteers in the "Recovery and survival of stem cell originated red cells" (RESTORE) trial, a one-of-a-kind clinical trial taking place at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
There are 150 Billion red blood cells in one ounce of blood.
IIT Bombay is the top educational institute in South Asia, as per the recently released QS Asia University Rankings 2023.
IIT Bombay bagged 40th position in the QS ranking followed by IIT Delhi which secured rank 46.
The Asia University Ranking 2023 was released by the international ranking agency - Quacquarelli Symonds.
SME lending startup, ftcash has received a licence from the Reserve Bank of India to set up a non-banking financial company. With this, the company aims to disburse loans worth ₹100 crore in FY23.
Headquartered in Mumbai, the company was founded in 2015 by Sanjeev Chandak, Deepak Kothari and Vaibhav Lodha.
India will host the women’s world boxing championships in 2023 in New Delhi where a new review system based on artificial intelligence will be used for the first time, the game’s global governing body (IBA) said.
India will host the women’s premier event, two years after the country was stripped of the hosting rights of the men’s event for not paying the requisite fee.
IBA President: Umar Nazarovich Kremlev.
Mumbai defeated Himachal Pradesh to win the 2022 edition of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. It was the first time that Mumbai won the trophy.
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka were the dominant teams when it comes to SMAT. However, both teams were not able to do well in this edition.
Himachal Pradesh won Vijay Hazare Trophy last time around and reached the finals of SMAT this year.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is a Twenty20 competition played in India and organized by BCCI.
November 10 as World Science Day for peace and development highlights the importance of science in our society. The day also plays an important role in engaging a wider public in debates on emerging scientific issues.
The theme for this year's World Science Day for Peace and Development is ‘Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development.’