rawan239 The Control Bureau (NCB) and states destroyed 1. 4lakh kg of drugs worth Rs 2,378 crore on Monday with Home ministerAmit Shahpresiding over the operation virtually from Delhi. With the latest round, the quantity of drugs destroyed in the past year reached 10 lakh kg, worth Rs 12,000 crore.
Shah said 1,250 cases were registered between 2006 and 2013, while 3,700 cases were registered in nine years from 2014 to 2023, which was
512">Shah highlighted how India had, at an international level, replaced the terms Golden Triangle and Golden Crescent with Death Triangle and Death Crescent.
A survey of Metro rail commuters in Delhi, Bengaluru and Nagpur has revealed that poor access or last mile connectivity is responsible for lower-than planned ridership in these high capital-intensive transport systems. It has also found that while over 70% of the metro rail commuters walk or cycle to reach a station in Nagpur, in Delhi its barely 39% and in Bengaluru
(66%).Delhi
has the highest share of passengers using low capacity shared mode of transport such as e-rickshaw andGrameen Sewavehicles. In all three survey cities, walking and shared modes constitute over 75% of the total last-mile mode-share, which indicates that low cost, shared Services and pedestrian play a key role in last-mile connectivity for Metro users.The working paper on Improving Metro Access System published by the WRI India andToyota Mobility Foundation(TMF) has recommended that transport planners must understandthe demand on the last-mile corridor and the last-mile vehicle service capacities must be aligned with this demand to offer financially viable high frequency services.
The third Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting under Indias G20 Presidency concluded in Gandhinagar on Tuesday with a G20 Chair Summary and Outcome Document comprising 26 paragraphs and 2 Annexes.
Managing global debt vulnerabilities is a significant priority area
for 2023, reflecting the Indian Presidencys endeavour to voice the concerns of the Global South, said the outcome document of the meeting read. The Indian Presidency has brought the Digital Public Infrastructure agenda into the G20 discussions.Road accidents top cause for youths, kids death worldwide; India loses 1.5 m lives every year: FICCI-EY report
Road accidents claim around 1.5 million lives in India every year, contributing 11 per cent to the total number of such fatalities globally, according to a FICCI-EY report.
Globally, at least one life is lost every 24 seconds due to road traffic injury, said the report
As per the World Health Organisation (WHO), road crash is the 8th leading cause of death with more than 1.3 billion deaths and 50 million serious injuries. It is the leading cause of death amongst youth and kids aged 5 to 29 years, it said.
India is a signatory to Brasilia Declaration which aims to half the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes by 2030.
Global and residence advisory company Henley & Partners has ranked Pakistan as a nation with the fourth worst passport in the world. According to the report, Pakistanis had access to 35 countries with an on-arrival visa facility until January this year which has now come down to 33, The News International reported.
The nation of over 220 million stands at the 100th position among the 227 countries rated on the index, the results of which are estimated via the number of destinations that their residents can access without possessing a prior visa.
India ranks 80th on the list with 57 countries that give on-arrival
visa facilities to Indians. Meanwhile, Singapore leads the index as possessing the most-coveted passport in the world pushing Japan, leading the list for the last five years, to the third position shared with South Korea, Austria, Finland, France, Luxembourg and Sweden granting their citizens access to 189 destinations without a prior visa.The Henley Passport Index, which ranks 199 passports based on International Air Transport Association (IATA) data, is regularly updated to reflect changes in
visa policies. The Average number of visa-free destinations, over the years, for travellers has nearly doubled from 58 in 2006 to 109.GeM is implementing the SAHAY project in collaboration with the Indian Software Product Round Table (iSPIRT), a non-profit tech think tank’s volunteer team.
The GeM-SAHAY portal can be used to provide frictionless financing for MSMEs on the Government eMarketplace, allowing them to obtain a loan at the Point of Order acceptance on the GeM platform.
The SAHAY platform is affiliated with the country’s leading lenders.
Using the portal, the loan payment will be instant, rather than the traditional principle of approving the loan, which usually does not end with the actual payment.
The GeM SAHAY platform is lender agnostic,’ allowing any lender that is duly regulated
by the Reserve Bank Of India to participate and provide capital and smart collection accounts to GeM sellers.Minister of Tribal Affairs, Shri Arjun Munda, inaugurated Second National Sickle Cell Conclave on the occasion of World Sickle Cell Awareness Day 2021 on 19th June.
This conclave is held to mark world Sickle Cell Day each year. It is being organised with the aid of Ministry of Tribal Affairs in association with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), Apollo Hospitals, Novartis, Piramal Foundation etc. It will prepare discussions about brand new advances and future traits in remedy of SCD on vulnerable patient Population.
SCD is the most regular inherited blood sickness or a genetic red blood cell disorder. People with sickle cell issues dont have
sufficient wholesome red blood cells which lift Oxygen throughout the body.The Adi Prashikshan Portal was launched by the Minister of Tribal Affairs.
The portal would serve as a Central Repository for all training programmes offered by Tribal Research Institutes
(TRIs), various divisions of the Tribal Affairs Ministry, the National Society for Education of Tribal Students (NESTS), Ministry-funded Centers of Excellence, and the National Tribal Research Institute. It was created by the Government of India’s Tribal Affairs Ministry.The fifteenth version of the Global Peace Index (GPI) announced by using Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) Sydney, the GPI is the worlds leading measure of world peacefulness. The index ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. This record affords the most complete data-driven evaluation to date on trends in peace, its financial value, and how to boost peaceable societies.
Iceland stays the most peaceable country in the world, a position it has held because 2008. It is joined at the pinnacle of the index through New Zealand, Denmark, Portugal, and Slovenia. Afghanistan is the least peaceable country in the world for the fourth consecutive year, followed with the aid of Yemen, Syria, South Sudan, and Iraq.
The biggest enchancment in peacefulness in South Asia happened in Pakistan, which ranked 150th globally and
6th in the region, by using moving up two notches from the previous years ranking.Stockholm International Peace Research Institute that is SIPRI has released the SIPRI Yearbook 2021. The file assesses the current status of armaments, disarmament and global security. China is in the center of huge modernisation and expansion of its nuclear weapon inventory, and India and Pakistan also appear to be increasing their nuclear arsenals.
According to the yearbook, India possessed an estimated 156 nuclear warheads at the begin of 2021 in
contrast to one hundred fifty at the begin of last year, whilst Pakistan had a hundred sixty-five warheads, up from a hundred and sixty in 2020.Russia and the U.S. collectively possessed over 90% of world nuclear weapons and have big and steeply-priced modernisation programmes underway.
A survey has said that around 73 per cent of Women want companies to allow them to take menstrual leave while 86.6 per cent are in favour of a menstrual-friendly workplace where hygiene methods and support are available to women.
The Menstrual Hygiene Survey 2023, conducted by Everteen, a
feminine hygiene brand, also pointed out that 71.7 per cent of the participants in the survey do not want the menstrual leaves to be paid, fearing that it may make companies reluctant to hire female employees. Nearly 10,000 women in the age group of 18 to 35 years participated in the survey that was conducted in multiple cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Patna.Also, 86.6 per cent of women are in favour of the concept of a menstrual friendly workplace where females are not hesitant in discussing the subject openly, and menstrual hygiene methods and support infrastructure is made available to women. Besides, 68.9 per cent of women have taken a leave of absence from work during menstrual periods, the survey stated.
The survey recommended that corporates need to make it a priority to adopt practices for a menstrual-friendly workplace. Researchers from the UVA School of Medicine, Flo Health, University College London, Technische Universitaet Berlin and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine too found menstrual symptoms hurt workplace productivity of many women.
Following the death of six cheetahs, including three newborn cubs, within a period of two-and-a-half months at the Kuno (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh, the Centre has set up yet another high-level panel of national and international experts to oversee and monitor the ambitious Project Cheetah in India.
It will also provide advice on cheetah introduction to the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department and the NTCA. It will open the cheetah habitat for eco-tourism and suggest regulations to further this. It will also provide suggestions on how to involve the community in the projects activities.
In October last
year, the ministry had constituted a Cheetah Task Force to monitor Indias cheetah introduction programme.