Context: India's economic development strategy has been debated for a long time, with some arguing for a service-led growth model and others for a manufacturing-led model. The country's current development path has seen growth primarily in the service sector, with the manufacturing sector's share of output and employment plateauing at or below 20%.
Service sector model:
Challenges Encountered by the Service Sector in India:
Manufacturing-led model
Challenges faced by manufacturing sector:
Which model is suitable for India?
Context: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted global health inequalities, prompting policymakers worldwide to advocate for enhanced global health infrastructure as a means to drive economic growth and ensure planetary well-being. However, amid these critical efforts, prioritizing access to blood and its products is deemed essential for establishing a robust global health architecture.
The issue of blood shortage
Implications:
Solutions:
Context: Sadyr Zhaparov, the president of Kyrgyzstan signed a decree to declare the snow leopard as the national symbol of Kyrgyzstan.
About Snow Leopard:
Global Conservation Initiatives for Snow Leopards:
About Kyrgyzstan
Context: British maritime security agency UKMTO reported explosions late Tuesday near a cargo ship in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which separates the Arabian Peninsula from the Horn of Africa.
About Bab al-Mandab Strait
Context: Recently, a tiger has been observed in West Bengal’s Buxa National Park. The previous sighting of Tiger was after 23 years on December 12, 2021.
News:
Possible Factors Contributing to the Tiger Population Recovery:
About Buxa Tiger Reserve:
Tiger Conservation Status:
South Africa has moved the International Court of Justice (ICJ), invoking the Genocide Convention, 1948, against Israel accusing it of committing genocide during its ongoing military campaign in Gaza.
What is ICJ?
Judges |
Countries |
3 |
Africa |
2 |
Latin America and the Caribbean |
3 |
Asia |
5 |
Western Europe and other states |
2 |
Eastern Europe |
Election- They are conducted triennially, and five among these 15 judges are elected every three years for a nine-year term to ensure a sense of continuity especially in pending cases.
Jurisdiction- There are two types of jurisdiction.
Legal disputes-The Court settles legal disputes between nations only and not between individuals, organizations and private enterprises in accordance with international law.
Why South Africa approached ICJ?
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948 |
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Indian Navy’s destroyer INS Visakhapatnam responds to distress call from drone-hit merchant vessel in Gulf of Aden.
Geography – It is an arm of the Indian Ocean that runs in a west-east direction, is located between Yemen on the south coast of the Arabian Peninsula and Somalia and Djibouti in Africa.
Strategic importance - In the northwest it connects with the Red Sea through the Bab el Mandeb straits making it strategically important.
Jeddah Convention of 1982, the ‘Regional Convention for the Conservation of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Environment’ aims at protection of coastal and marine environment from pollution and the rational management of living marine resources that also lead to establishment of PERSGA (Programme for the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden) in 1995.
Indian Navy currently has around 12 warships deployed for anti-piracy and maritime security duties over Arabian Sea.
Cabinet approves creation of 3 officer-level posts for 16th Finance Commission.
Finance Commission of India (FC) |
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The erstwhile 15th Finance Commission under N.K. Singh had recommended that States be given 41% of the divisible tax pool of the Centre during 5-year period 2021-22 to 2025-26, which is at the same level as was recommended by the 14th Finance Commission.
Recently, Indian government argued for people’s right to food in Supreme Court by supporting Genetically Modified (GM) crops as against the alleged environmental damage by it.
SDG 2 is about creating a world free of hunger by 2030.
Edible Oil in India |
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The Supreme Court, while dismissing a petition for quashing a complaint filed by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), has left a crucial question of law open i.e., whether SFIO are police officer(s) under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO)
Headquarters: The headquarters of SFIO is in New Delhi, with five regional offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Kolkata.
Forensic auditing?
A forensic audit is an analysis and review of the financial records of a company or person to extract facts, which can be used in a court of law. Forensic auditing is a specialty in the accounting industry, and most major accounting firms have a department of forensic auditing. Forensic audits include the experience in accounting and auditing practices as well as expert knowledge of forensic audit's legal framework.
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope discovered W1935.
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