Context Recently, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced the launch of an EDISON Alliance. EDISON stands for Essential Digital Infrastructure and Services Network. About EDISON Alliance It is an…
Context Recently, the Centre has decided to go ahead with the long-pending 850-megawatt Ratle Hydroelectric Project on the river Chenab in J&K Kishtwar district, despite objections raised by the Pakistan…
Context As a major step towards boosting people to people contact, a railway link has been inaugurated by Prime Minister of India and Bangladesh PM between Haldibari and Chilahati. The…
Context Recently, Bangladesh has transported more than 1,600 Rohingya refugees to a low-lying Bhashan Char island in the first phase of a controversial planned relocation of 1,00,000 people. About Bhashan…
Nobel Peace Prize 2020 Context The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 to the United Nation’s (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to…
Context Recently, the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation has come into force. Key Details The convention will provide a more effective way of enforcing mediated settlements of corporate…
Context With the COVID-19 pandemic and growing trade tensions between China and the United States, Japan has mooted the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI). What is Supply Chain Resilience? approach that helps a country to ensure that…
Context Maldives and Sri Lanka were today verified for having eliminated rubella, making them the first two countries in WHO South-East Asia Region to achieve measles and rubella elimination ahead…
Context On July 16, 1945, the world’s first super bomb — loaded with about 13 pounds of plutonium at its core — exploded in a desert in New Mexico, destroying…
Context Turkey’s highest court convened to decide whether Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia museum can be turned into a mosque. Back to Basics About the Hagia Sophia The 1,500-year-old structure, listed as…
