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रिफ्यूजी को हम इसलिए याद कर रहे हैं क्योंकि 20 जून को World Refugee Day 2019 है। शरणार्थी, रिफ्यूजी, मुहाजिर चाहे जिस नाम से पुकार लें। लेकिन ये वे लोग हैं जिन्हें किसी न किसी कारणवश अपना देश, अपना घर, अपना सबकुछ छोड़कर दूसरों के रहम-ओ-करम पर जीने के लिए मजबूर होना पड़ता है। किसी न किसी मजबूरीवश अपनी धरती को छोड़कर भागे हुए ये वो अभागे लोग हैं, जिन्हें कोई भी पूरे दिल से स्वीकार नहीं करता।
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants-hindi/20611-2019-06-21-04-16-25
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अंतर्राष्ट्रीय पेटेंट आवेदनों पर संगोष्‍ठी
वाणिज्‍य एवं उद्योग मंत्रालय के उद्योग एवं आंतरिक व्‍यापार संवर्धन विभाग (डीपीआईआईटी) के अधीनस्‍थ भारतीय पेटेंट कार्यालय अंतर्राष्‍ट्रीय पेटेंट आवेदनों को दाखिल करने पर एक दिवसीय संगोष्‍ठी आयोजित कर रहा है। यह संगोष्‍ठी विश्‍व बौद्धिक संपदा संगठन (विपो), एसोचैम, भारत सरकार के वाणिज्‍य एवं उद्योग मंत्रालय के आईपीआर संवर्धन एवं प्रबंधन प्रकोष्‍ठ (सीपम) और उत्‍तराखंड सरकार के सहयोग से आयोजित की जा रही है।
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants-hindi/20610-2019-06-21-04-16-13
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EOI for six submarines
The Centre has taken a major step towards building advanced submarines for the Indian Navy. The defence ministry on 29 June 2019 issued an Expression of Interest to shortlist Indian strategic partners for the construction of six conventional submarines under Project 75 India (P-75I) worth about Rs 45,000 crore.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/20615-eoi-for-six-submarines
#EOI #P75I #NUH #SPs #India #ExpressionofInterest #navy

Sri Lanka launches its first satellite
Sri Lanka’s first satellite ‘Ravana-1’, designed and developed by two local engineers, was successfully launched into orbit this week from the International Space Station (ISS) along with two other BIRDS 3 satellites from Japan and Nepal. Ravana 1, the cube satellite measuring 11.3 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm, and weighing around 1.05 kg, was launched into orbit.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/20614-sri-lanka-launches-its-first-satellite
#SriLanka #satellite #Ravana1 #ISS #BIRDS3 #Japan

India’s first solar cruise vessel
Close on the heels of launching India’s first solar-powered ferry in 2016, Kerala is gearing up for the launch of the country’s premier solar-powered cruise boat by December. The initiative comes from the State Water Transport Department (SWTD), whose solar ferry Aditya in the Vaikom-Thavanakadavu route has proved to be a success.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/20613-india-s-first-solar-cruise-vessel
#India #SWTD #IRS #Kerala #solar #Aditya

QS Rankings 2020
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) emerged the top-ranked private university in India in the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking 2020 released on 19 June 2019. In the 16th edition of the rankings, Manipal figures in the 701-750 band, up from 750-800 last year, among the 1,620 universities considered and 1,000 published universities from 82 countries.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/20612-qs-rankings-2020
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Today's Headlines - 19 July 2023
BIMSTEC Foreign Ministers’ meet
GS Paper - 2 (International Relations)

The first-ever Foreign Ministers’ meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) began in Bangkok, Thailand. India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar was also present, and said that areas of coordination challenge that were discussed, including health and energy security.

What is BIMSTEC?

BIMSTEC is a regional organisation that was established in 1997 with the signing of the Bangkok Declaration.
Initially known as BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation), the organisation is now known as BIMSTEC and comprises seven members, with Myanmar joining towards the end of 1997, and Bhutan and Nepal in 2004.
Around 22% of the world’s population lives in the seven countries around the Bay of Bengal, with a combined GDP close to $2.7 trillion.
All seven countries have sustained average annual rates of growth between 3.4% and 7.5% from 2012 to 2016. A fourth of the world’s traded goods cross the bay every year.
Cooperation within the BIMSTEC had initially focused on six sectors in 1997 (trade, technology, energy, transport, tourism, and fisheries) and expanded in 2008 to other areas.
In 2021, a reorganisation led to each of the Member States leading certain sectors. India focuses on security, along with counter-terrorism and transnational crime, disaster management and energy.

Growth of BIMSTEC as a regional forum

Despite having been in existence for many years, the grouping had been largely ignored until India gave it a renewed push in October 2016, a month after the terrorist attack in Uri.
Alongside the BRICS summit in Goa, India hosted an outreach summit with leaders of BIMSTEC countries.
Weeks earlier, some of these countries had supported New Delhi’s call for a boycott of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit scheduled in Islamabad that November.
SAARC includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka as its members. When that summit was postponed, India claimed victory in isolating Pakistan.

China on mind

The Bay of Bengal is crucial for an increasingly assertive China in maintaining its access route to the Indian Ocean.
As China has undertaken a massive drive to finance and build infrastructure in South and Southeast Asia through the Belt and Road Initiative in almost all BIMSTEC countries, except Bhutan and India, BIMSTEC is a new battleground in the India-China battle for dominance.
BIMSTEC could allow India to push a constructive agenda to counter Chinese investments, and instead follow best practices for connectivity projects based on recognised international norms. The Chinese projects are widely seen as violating these norms.
The two organisations — SAARC and BIMSTEC — focus on geographically overlapping regions. However, this does not make them equal alternatives.
SAARC is a purely regional organisation, whereas BIMSTEC is inter-regional and connects both South Asia and ASEAN.
Since the SAARC summit has only been postponed, not cancelled the possibility of revival remains.

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