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Indias Passport Power

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As per the Index, in first quarter of 2022, India has improved its passport power. India has climbed seven places up and has been ranked at 83rdposition. In 2021, it was ranked at 90thposition. Now, India has access to 60 countries without a prior visa. In 2021, visa free scope was valid for just 58 countries. Oman and Armenia have been recently added to the list of prior visa requirement.

Japan and Singapore have been ranked 1st, with passport holders have accessibility of 192 destinations visa-free.

Germany and South Korea have been placed at 2ndposition, with

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passport holders able to access 190 destinations visa-free.

The index provide ranking to 199 passports in accordance with the number of destinations their holders can access visa-free or visa-on-arrival. The index is updated in real time throughout the year. It is prepared on the basis of exclusive data provided by International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Henley Passport Index 2022

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Henley Passport Index 2022 was recently released. The latest edition shows record-breaking levels of travel freedom for the top-ranking countries, Japan and Singapore.

The report also reveals that, there was thewidest recorded global mobility gap since the index was created 17 years ago.

Passport holders of two Asian nations, Japan and Singapore, can now enter 192 destinations worldwide visa-free. It is 166 more than

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Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has been listed at the bottom of this index.

Need for the appeal

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Afghanistan is facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Half of the Afghans are facing hunger. More than nine million in the country are homeless. Around 22 million are in need of assistance.

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5.7 million Afghans are in need of help beyond the borders.

UNs largest Single Country appeal

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The United Nations recently launched the largest country specific appeal for Afghanistan. The appeal was launched after Pakistan called the international organization to revive the Banking system in the Afghanistan.

It is a 5 billion USD appeal. That is, according

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to the United Nations member countries, 5 billion USD is required to save Afghanistan. The United Nations members have appealed to save the collapsing Services in Afghanistan.

CEC to launch special summary revision of electoral rolls

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Chief election commissionerRajiv Kumarwill on Wednesday launch the special summary revision (SSR) of India’s electoral rolls with reference to January 1, 2023, from Pune, a city that has recorded one of the lowest voter turnouts in the country. Pune has consciously been chosen as theSSRlaunch venue to highlight ECs renewed push to reducing urban

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voter apathy and youth apathy, for which it will also be entering into memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with universities like the Pune University and Symbiosis International as well as corporates like Tech Mahindra.

Noticing high urban apathy in Pune which recorded just 49.9% voter turnout in 2019Lok Sabhapoll the Commission has decided to create targeted awareness among voters, emphasise inclusivity in enrolment by engaging with marginalised sections of the Society as also interacting with voter awareness fora.

This year the special summary revision of rolls with January 1, 2023 as the qualifying date will formally start with publication of the draft electoral roll on November 9.

Cases of blindness and visual impairment decline dramatically across India

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There is some good news. Blindness and visual impairment (VI) in India reduced by 47.1% and 51.9%, respectively, in 2019, in overall Population as compared to WHOs figures of 2010.

However, India is yet

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to achieve WHO’s goal of reducing blindness to 0.3% of the total population, as the present figures stand at 0.36%.

According to a recent study for estimating the prevalence of blindness and visual impairment in the Indian population, more than one fourth of people aged 50 years and above are visually impaired in India and the prevalence of blindness among them is 1.99%.

Among the 31 surveyed districts, the highest prevalence was seen in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh (3.7%), whereas the lowest was in Thrissur, Kerala (1.1%).

The major causes of blindness included cataract (66.2%), followed by corneal opacity (8.2%), cataract surgical

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complications (7.2%), posterior segment disorders (5.9%), and glaucoma (5.5%).

In the population aged 50 years and above, the prevalence of blindness has declined from 5.3% in 2001 to 3.6% in 2007, and to 1.9% in the current survey.
The study revealed that a higher prevalence was noted in females than in males and participants residing in rural regions had higher prevalence of blindness than those living in urban regions.

India- Norway join hands to for a GREEN MARITIME SECTOR

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MoPSW (Ministry of ,Shipping and Waterways) is working diligently to develop the Maritime Sector as a goal of MIV 2030. In this regard 8th Norway-India Joint Working Group Maritime meeting was held on17th November,2022 in Mumbai. The meeting was Co-Chaired by Mr. Rajesh Kumar Sinha, Additional Secretary, MoPSW in presence of Mr. Amitabh Kumar, Director General of Shipping, Directorate General of Shipping, Mr. Kumar Sanjay Bariar, Addl. Director General of Shipping, Directorate General of Shipping Mr. Ajith Sukumaran, Chief

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Surveyor (I/c), Directorate General of Shipping Mr. Madhu Nair, Chairman and MD, Cochin
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Shipyard Limited along with other MoPSW senior officials. The Norwegian delegation was led by Director General Mr. Ottar Ostnes from the Ministry of Trade, Industries and Fisheries.

India Norway is part of Green Voyage 2050 project, both parties agreed on willingness, devotion, PARTNERSHIP and capacity building for achieving common goals.

India is a signatory to Hongkong Convention for Recycling of Ships. In todays meeting India requested that EU regulation should not hinder to recycling non-European countries which is compliant as per International Convention. Norway was requested not to prolong Ship recycling to India as lot of Investment has been made by Indian recyclers.

Roadmap of India to Ethanol

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The central government has issued a report from an expert committee on the Roadmap for Ethanol Blending in India by 2025.

Highlights:

The roadmap proposes a phased rollout of ethanol-blended fuel to achieve E10 fuel supply by April 2022, followed by a phased rollout of E20 from April 2023 to April 2025.

The Indian

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government has moved the target for 20% ethanol blending in petrol (also known as E20) from 2030 to 2025.

It is produced naturally by yeast Fermentation of sugars or through petrochemical processes such as ethylene hydration.

Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance Program

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The has approved a USD 500 million programme to assist in the Growth of India’s MSME sector. The

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programme is known as the Raising and Accelerating Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Performance (RAMP) Program.

This is the World Bank’s second Investment in this sector. The USD 750 million MSME Emergency Response Program was the first intervention.

The programme aims to improve the performance of 5.5 lakh MSMEs.

It is expected to raise USD 15.5 billion in financing as part of the government’s USD 3.4 billion MSME Competitiveness A Post-COVID Resilience and Recovery Program (MCRRP).

DBS Tops Forbes Worlds Best Banks List in India

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BS Bank has been named with the aid of Forbes in their listing of Worlds Best Banks 2021. DBS was ranked at the position 1 out of 30 domestic and global banks in India for the 2nd consecutive year.

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This is the 0.33 version of the Worlds Best Banks listing by means of Forbes, carried out in PARTNERSHIP with market research company Statista.

DBS Bank India was regarded as Indias Best International Bank 2021 by means of Asiamoney. DBS was once named Safest Bank in Asia for the twelfth consecutive year via New York-based exchange publication Global Finance in 2020.