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G20 finance leaders in Bali to tackle Ukraine, inflation.

July 16, 2022

Top financial officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations met on the Indonesian island of Bali seeking strategies to counter inflation, food insecurity and other troubles that have worsened due to the war in Ukraine.
Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati opened the two-day meeting by urging fellow finance ministers, central bank chiefs and other leaders to find ways to “build bridges, not walls.” The consequences of failure, especially for less wealthy nations, would be “catastrophic. “Millions and millions if not billions of people are depending on us.”
The financial leaders are searching for ways to coordinate how they shepherd their economies through inflation that is running at 40-year highs, unsnarling supply chains and bottlenecks due to the coronavirus pandemic and fortifying financial systems against future risks.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for the G-20 to take action to fight food insecurity as millions go hungry due to soaring costs for food and other necessities. It is crucial, to avoid stockpiling and export bans, to provide financial help to the needy and to ensure all organizations, such as development banks and food agencies, do their part to alleviate hunger.

Category: Summits

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Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as interim President of Sri Lanka.

July 16, 2022

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has sworn in as the interim President after Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena accepted the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the Acting President before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa submitted his resignation letter after arriving in Singapore, officially vacating the post of President.
According to Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, President will be selected according to the provisions of the Special Provisions Act No. 2 of 1981 and Article 40 of the Constitution.

Category: International

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Proportion of unmarried in age group 15-29 increases to 23%.

July 16, 2022

According to a Government survey, the proportion of unmarried persons within the age bracket of 15-29 years has increased to 23 per cent in 2019 from 17.2 per cent in 2011.
As per the National Youth Policy 2014, those aged 15 to 29 years are classified as youth.
The latest report of the National Statistical Office stated that the percentage share of the youth population (15-29 years) who are never married has shown an increasing trend in the male population from 20.8 per cent in 2011 to 26.1 per cent in 2019 and a similar trend has been observed in case of the female population.
The proportion of unmarried females rose from 13.5 per cent in 2011 to 19.9 per cent.
In 2019, the highest percentage share of youth population who are never married have been observed in the States/UTs of Jammu & Kashmir followed by Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Punjab and the lowest have been observed in the States/UTs of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
However, the report did not attribute any reason for rising in the proportion of unmarried youth. It stated that early marriage in India has been declining over time.

Category: National

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Union Education Minister Releases India Rankings 2022 of higher educational institutes.

July 16, 2022

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) to rank India’s top colleges and universities has been released.
IIT Madras remains the best institute in the country, IISc Bengaluru has topped the university category while University of Delhi’s Miranda House has been ranked first in the college category.
NIRF India Ranking 2022 has been announced for 11 categories. This includes overall, university, management, college, pharmacy, medical, engineering, architecture, ARIIA (Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements), law and research institutions.
The ranking framework judges institutions under five broad generic groups of parameters of Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR), Research and Professional Practice (RP), Graduation Outcomes (GO), Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) and Perception (PR). Ranks are assigned based on the total sum of marks assigned for each of these five broad groups of parameters.

The best medical college in India — like in the previous years’ — is All India Institute of Medical Science in Delhi, followed by Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh.
In 2021 too, IIT-Madras retained its number one position in the overall educational institutes and engineering categories. The institute also bagged the second position in the ‘research’ category that was newly introduced last year.

Category: Indexes and Reports

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The Cabinet approved loan for Himachal Pradesh Rural Water Improvement and Livelihood Project for providing clean drinking water.

July 15, 2022

The Cabinet also approved the signing of a loan agreement through the Department of Economic Affairs with Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the Rs 1,098.89 crore externally-aided Himachal Pradesh Rural Water Improvement and Livelihood Project for providing clean drinking water to every household.
The project would be financed through a loan of Rs 760.77 crore (69.2 per cent) by the ADB and a counter fund of Rs 338.12 crore (30.8 per cent) by the government.

Category: States Current Affairs

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RD Dhiman replaces Ram Subhag Singh as Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary.

July 15, 2022

The HP Government replaced Chief Secretary Ram Subhag Singh with a 1988-batch IAS officer, RD Dhiman, Additional Chief Secretary (Power and Industry).
Chief Secretary Ram Subhag, a 1987-batch officer, will superannuate in July 2023.
Subhag has been posted as Principal Adviser (PA) Administrative Reforms.
Two officers whom Dhiman superseded have also been appointed as principal advisers to the government. They are Subhag’s wife Nisha Singh (Training) and Sanjay Gupta (Public Grievances).
Incidentally, Subhag is the fifth Chief Secretary not to complete the tenure during the present regime.
The other such officials include VC Pharka, Vineet Chawdhary, BK Aggarwal and Anil Khachi.
RD Dhiman is due to retire in December this year and as such his tenure as Chief Secretary will coincide with the Jai Ram government’s term. Dhiman too had applied for the CIC post.

Category: States Current Affairs

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Defence Minister to launch Project 17A stealth frigate ‘Dunagiri’.

July 15, 2022

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will inaugurate stealth frigate ‘Dunagiri’, built by warship-maker Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, in Kolkata.
Christened after a mountain range in Uttarakhand, ‘Dunagiri’ is the fourth ship of P17A stealth frigates. A follow-up of the P17 Shivalik-class frigate, Dunagiri has improved stealth features, advanced weapons sensors and platform management systems.
‘Dunagiri’ is the reincarnation of the erstwhile ‘Dunagiri’, the Leander-class anti-submarine warfare frigate which was in service for 33 years from 1977 to 2010.
The first two ships of P17A Project were launched in 2019 and 2020. The third ship (Udaygiri) was launched at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders on May 17 earlier this year.
The launch of the fourth ship within such a short span is a testimony to the impetus provided towards self-reliant shipbuilding with a focused approach.
P17A ships have been designed in-house by Indian Navy’s Directorate of Naval Design.

Category: Defence

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Heavy rains cause partial collapse of Hampi heritage structure.

July 15, 2022

Heavy rains in Karnataka’s Ballari district over the last few days have damaged one of the structures at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hampi.
According to police officials, a portion of the 16-pillar salu mantapa, located near the Virupaksha Temple, collapsed on Sunday.
According to an official at the Hampi Police Station that due to the recent rains, eight out of the 16 pillars of the structure have fallen.
This is not the first time that this structure has been under threat due to weather conditions. In 2015 and 2013, too, there was similar damage due to rains and loosening of soil under the structure.
This development comes after many such world heritage sites were underwater for days in August due to rains and subsequent flooding in north Karnataka.
The ancient town of Hampi, the seat of power of the erstwhile Vijayanagar empire, is a tourist hotspot. It was the only place in India and the second choice in the New York Times’ list of ‘52 Places to Go in 2019’.
The ruins and remains of the glorious 14th century kingdom were recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 while in February 2018, it was chosen by the union government as one of the 10 tourist destinations across India to be developed as an ‘Iconic Tourism Site’.
The place is best known for several Hindu temples constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture. However, Hampi’s most famous icon is the stone chariot in the Vittala Temple. Over six lakh tourists, including foreigners, flock to the heritage site annually.

Category: Art and Culture

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ONDC to be gradually expanded to more cities: Union Minister Piyush Goyal.

July 15, 2022

Open network for digital commerce (ONDC) is a set of standards for voluntary adoption by sellers or logistics providers or payment gateways.
The objective is to democratise the fast-growing e-commerce sector in the country to help small retailers and reduce the dominance of online retail giants.
According to Union Minister Piyush Goyal, the presence of open network for digital commerce, a Unified Payments Interface-type protocol, will be gradually expanded to more cities after the successful launch of its pilot phase.
It provides small retailers the freedom to choose any logistics player and seller platform based on different parameters like location and rates.
The initiative is also aimed at curbing the dominance of two large multinational e-commerce players — which control more than half of the country’s e-commerce trading, limit access to the market and give preferential treatment to certain sellers and squeeze supplier margins.
The ONDC was launched in five cities in April – Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Shillong and Coimbatore.
As many as 20 organisations of national repute have confirmed investments of Rs 255 crore into the ONDC. Lenders, such as the State Bank of India, UCO Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Bank of Baroda, have already committed investments.

Category: National

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IAS Ashish Chauhan wins the News Maker Achiever’s Award 2022.

July 15, 2022

This year, 14th News Maker Achiever’s Award took place in Maharashtra, where several personalities were felicitated for their commendable social work.
District Magistrate of Pithoragarh, Dr Ashish Chauhan, was recognised with the ‘Best IAS Officer’ award for his enormous and splendid social work during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ashish Chauhan has a PhD in Medieval History and is an IAS officer from the 2012 batch. For many years now, Ashish Chauhan has been doing incredible work for farmers, communities, disaster management, healthcare, tourism, etc., in Uttarakhand.
With a lot of patience, planning, and intelligence IAS Ashish Chauhan brought the rapidly increasing cases of Covid-19 under control and began masking, sample collection, testing, and sanitisation drives. Tips, awareness and guidelines were circulated to the public to promote cleanliness, and public announcements were made in the local language, Garhwali.
To empower farmers and backward communities and drive people out of poverty, DM Ashish Chauhan launched the self-employment campaign. Officers and employees of the Horticulture Department, Agriculture Department, and Integrated Livelihood Cooperation Project prepared organic jam, juices, etc., from a local fruit Bedu. Bedu, also called Pahadi Anjeer (hill fig), has many nutrients such as vitamin C, potassium, iron, etc., and may also be beneficial for preventing skin problems. All these organic products are marketed through Hilans – providing a range of pure and organic farm-produced products in Uttarakhand.
In 2018, DM Ashish Chauhan and the District Panchayat President launched Harshil Apple Festival. Harshil is a hidden serene place in Uttarakhand that produces exceptional apples. To give more exposure to Harshil apples, Ashish decided to begin a two-day apple festival where buyers, businessmen, and investors showed up in impressive numbers. Previously, orders of apples went out for Rs.50/kg but, with the right marketing and exposure, 10kg apples are sold for approx. Rs 1,200-1,500/-. DM Ashish Chauhan reveals the Harshil Apple Festival has helped lots of people combat poverty and opt for better a standard of living.
IAS Ashish Chauhan is also a social worker and activist who seizes all the right opportunities to carry out social work. His vision and altruistic approach have helped him achieve so much at a young age. During all his many tenures, Ashish discharged his duties and responsibilities immaculately.

Category: Awards

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