World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2 February. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
The Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands approved Wetlands for Disaster Risk Reduction as the theme for World Wetlands Day in 2017.
Activist Prafulla Samantara is one of the six winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize for 2017. He is being honoured for his historic 12-year legal battle that affirmed the indigenous Dongria Kondhs’ land rights and protected the Niyamgiri Hills from a massive, open-pit aluminium ore mine.
The government has released the new series of WPI and IIP with new base year of 2011-12, a long pending demand of the economists and experts.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for re-structuring the schemes of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) under new Central Sector Scheme – SAMPADA (Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters) for the period 2016-20.
World Press Freedom Index is published annually by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2002. India is ranked 136, three points down from last year. India’s previous rank was 133. The report blames the rise of Hindu nationalism for the drop in ranking. Norway is at the apex and North Korea at the bottom of the 180-strong list of nations.
The Australian government has scrapped the Australian “457” visa programme that allowed Australian companies to hire foreign workers in a number of skilled jobs for a period up to four years .
Kerala Bird Atlas is an ambitious citizen science project, to map the distribution and abundance of birds of an entire Indian state. This is the first time in India that birds in an entire state are being mapped.
Mathikettan Shola National Park is a 12.82 km² national park in Poopara village of Udumbanchola taluk in Idukki district of Kerala state, South India.
A DTAA, also referred to as a Tax Treaty, is a bilateral economic agreement between two nations that aims to avoid or eliminate double taxation of the same income in two countries.
India Signs Financing Agreement with World Bank for US$ 201.50 Million for “Third Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP III)”
IMF’s South Asia Training and Technical Assistance Center - SARTTAC is a pioneering initiative of the Government of India and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Economic Capacity Building in South Asia. It is IMF’s First Fully Integrated Capacity Development Center, which brings together under one roof the 2 building blocks of capacity development - training and technical assistance. SARTTAC’s 6 South Asian member countries - Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
The National Maritime Foundation (NMF) held its Annual Maritime Power Conference-2017 with the theme ‘The Blue Economy: Concept, Constituents and Development’
The Union HRD Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar launched a dedicated web portal ‘ShaGun’ for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan at New Delhi on 18th January, 2017. ‘ShaGun’ aims to capture and showcase innovations and progress in Elementary Education sector of India by continuous monitoring of the flagship scheme - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the number of unemployed people in India is expected to rise by 1 lakh in 2017 and another 2 lakh in 2018. It is important to note that the ILO had also predicted that the number of jobless will increase from 17.7 million in 2016 to 18 million by 2018 even though the country’s unemployment rate is expected to go down from 3.5 per cent to 3.4 per cent in 2017.
India has set an ambitious target of eliminating measles and controlling congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), caused by the rubella virus, by 2020
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