India signs UNISA
India on 7 August 2019 signed a key UN convention on international settlement agreements, even as experts called for local laws to support the treaty’s implementation in business contracts.
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#UNISA #India #JawedAshraf #NDIAC #ADR #IIIA #Singapore

Living indigenous languages
The Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea has the highest number of 'living' indigenous languages in the world (840), while India stands fourth with 453. 2019 is the United Nations' International Year of Indigenous Languages.
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#indigenous #UN #UNESCO #Australia #Pacific #UnitedNations #India

‘Climate Change and Land’ report
Agriculture and associated land activities related to food production could be contributing over a quarter of the global emissions of greenhouse gases, a new major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said.
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#IPCC #GHG #GlobalWarming #anthropogenic #greenhouse #Agriculture

Curiosity rover completes seven years
NASA's Curiosity rover has completed seven years on Mars and it has shared a 360-degree view of the Teal Ridge alongside a throwback video of its landing on the red planet. It’s been seven years since NASA’s Curiosity rover first touched the surface of the Mars.
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#NASA #Mars #planet #MRO #UpperMountSharp #VeraRubinRidge #Curiosity

Tribunal for SFJ
The Centre has set up a tribunal to adjudicate whether or not there is sufficient reason to impose a ban on pro-Khalistan group Sikhs For Justice, which was declared as an unlawful organisation last month.
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#SFJ #Tribunal #UAPA #Prevention #ParamjeetSinghPamma

Joint Panel for FTA
India and the 10-member bloc of South-East Asian nations have decided to review their free trade agreement (FTA) in goods that was signed in 2009.
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#FTA #JointPanel #ASEAN #RCEP #Indianindustry #PiyushGoyal

Healthcare’s climate footprint
India figures among the top ten countries that account for 75 per cent of global healthcare climate footprint, according to a report released by Health Care Without Harm, an international NGO, in collaboration with Arup.
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#Healthcare #footprint #GHG #NGO #greenhouse #gas

UN refuses to interfere on Kashmir issue
A day after India and Pakistan had a face-off at the 42nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on 11 September 2019 expressed concern on the potential escalation between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir issue and appealed to both sides to solve it through dialogue.
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#Kashmir #Pakistan #ImranKhan #UNSC #Article370 #UNHRC #NarendraModi

A rare Harvest Moon
This 13 September 2019, a full moon will be visible in the sky, which will be the first time in nearly 20 years that it will coincide with the 13th September 2019.
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#Harvest #Moon #NationalGeographic #HarvestMoon #fullmoon

Strategic Chabahar project
India and Iran on 22 December 2019 agreed to accelerate work on the strategic Chabahar project as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held wide-ranging talks with his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif on regional and global issues of mutual interest.
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#StrategicChabahar #India #NarendraModi #Afghanistan #JavadZarif

Boeing spacecraft returned to earth
Boeing's new Starliner unmanned spacecraft returned to Earth on 22 December 2019, landing in the New Mexico desert in the United States six days early after a clock problem prevented a rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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#spacecraft #earth #NASA #AtlasVlaunch #rocket #ISS

Russia, Ukraine outline gas transit deal
Russia and Ukraine announced terms of a new gas transit deal on 21 December 2019, under which Moscow will supply Europe for at least another five years via its former Soviet neighbour and pay a $2.9 billion settlement to Kiev to end a legal dispute.
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#Russia #Ukraine #Moscow #gas #Europe

Cuba gets first prime minister
Cuba's first prime minister in more than four decades - long-serving tourism minister Manuel Marrero - has taken office as the country resurrected a post last held by Fidel Castro.
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#Cuba #ManuelMarrero #GHG #FidelCastro

India in CCPI 2021
India remains in the top 10 for the second year in a row in the latest global Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) released in Germany.
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#CCPI2021 #GHG #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasses #ksgnews

Today's Headlines - 17 August 2023
'PM-eBus Sewa' approved
GS Paper - 2 (Infrastructure)

The Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister approved the Rs 57,613 crore PM-eBus Sewa initiatives to augment the use of electric buses in 169 cities. The scheme will augment city bus operations, under which priority will be given to cities having no organised bus service.

More about the Initiatives

These include all the capital cities of Union Territories (UTs), north eastern and hill states. The e-buses will be provided under the public-private partnership (PPP) mode for 10 years.
The scheme will cover cities of 3 lakh and above population and priority will be given to cities not having organised bus services.
Ten thousand e-buses will be deployed on public-private partnership (PPP) model in 169 cities.
Infrastructure will be upgraded in 181 cities under the Green Urban Mobility Initiatives.
The Scheme has two segments

Segment A – Augmenting the City bus services (169 cities)

The approved bus scheme will augment city bus operations with 10,000 e-buses on Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.
Associated Infrastructure will provide support for Development/ up-gradation of depot infrastructure; and Creation of behind-the-meter power infrastructure (substation, etc.) for e-buses.
Segment B– Green Urban Mobility Initiatives (GUMI): (181 cities)

The scheme envisages green initiatives like bus priority, infrastructure, multimodal interchange facilities, NCMC-based Automated Fare Collection Systems, Charging infrastructure, etc.
Support for Operation: Under the scheme, States/Cities shall be responsible for running the bus services and making payments to the bus operators.
The Central Government will support these bus operations by providing subsidies to the extent specified in the proposed scheme.
Boost to E-Mobility:

The scheme will promote e-mobility and provide full support for behind-the-meter power infrastructure.
Cities will also be supported for development of charging infrastructure under Green Urban Mobility Initiatives.
The support to bus priority infrastructure shall not only accelerate the proliferation of state-of-the-art, energy efficient electric buses but also foster the innovation in the e-mobility sector as well as development of resilient supply chain for electric vehicles.
This scheme shall also bring in economies of scale for procurement of electric buses through aggregation for e-buses.
Adoption to Electric mobility will reduce noise and air pollution and curb carbon emission.
Modal shift due to increased share of bus-based public transportation will lead to GHG reduction.

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