Current Affairs September'21 Flashcards
UNSC resolution addresses ‘key
concerns’ on Afghanistan: India
P5 members divided; Delhi plays ‘active role’ to ensure resolution went through
P5 refers to the five permanent members of the
UNSC — China, France, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S.
Despite the abstention of
two “P5” countries — Russia
and China — from the Indialed United Nations Security
Council (UNSC) Resolution
2593, the Government of India said it was a “matter of
satisfaction” that the resolution addressed India’s “key
concerns” on Afghanistan.
The resolution demands
that Afghan territory should
not be used to threaten or attack any country or to shelter and train terrorists and
plan or finance terrorist attacks. It mentions individuals designated by Resolution 1267, (which includes
the LashkareTaiba and the
JaisheMohammad),” said
the sources, explaining why
India played an “active role”
in ensuring that the resolution went through on Monday, a day before it demitted
presidency of the UNSC.
Economy grows 20.1% in
Q1, lags pre-pandemic level
Gross Value Added during April to June rose 18.8%: NSO
Gross Value Added (GVA)
in the economy during the
April to June period rose
18.8%, as per the National
Statistical Office (NSO), from
a 22.2% dip in the first quarter of 202021. GVA from
agriculture, forestry and
fishing, the only sector to
grow amid last year’s national lockdown, picked up pace
to grow 4.5% in Q1 this year
from 3.5% in Q1 202021.
Electricity, gas, water supply and other utility services, whose GVA grew
14.3% in Q1 of 202122, compared with a 9.9% fall last
year, was the only sector
along with agriculture, forestry and fishing, to recover
beyond the prepandemic levels of 201920.
Triple delight for India
at Tokyo Paralympics
Mariyappan clinches silver in high jump
The cumulative effort of
Mariyappan, Sharad and
Singhraj boosted India’s overall medals tally to 10 inclusive of two golds, five silvers
and three bronzes
Mariyappan, the 26yearold from Salem in Tamil Nadu, had won a gold in the
T42 section during the previous edition at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Cut to the latest
Paralympics, he narrowly
missed the glittering medal
but his best of 1.86 m helped
him seal the silver with Sharad following at 1.83 m.
American Sam Grewe
topped at 1.88 m to keep the
two Indians at bay.
NCRPB defers decision
on Regional Plan-2041
It proposes highrise development, new greenfield townships
The National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) on Tuesday deferred its decision on the draft NCR Regional Plan2041, which proposes highrise development and five to eight new greenfield townships, sources said. The draft plan says the elements under the Natural Conservation Zones in the RP2021 will remain, but there would be a distinction between “forests and green cover” and areas currently categorised as ‘forests’ will continue to be conserved in RP2041.
Activists raise red flag over draft plan
‘Important provisions regarding forest cover, riverbeds have been dropped’
Demanding that the distinction between the “forests” and the “green cover” be dropped, the environmentalists have expressed apprehensions that large areas of Aravalis not categorised as forest will lose their mandatory conservation status under the new provision. The draft plan, in another major amendment, said that the “0.5% to total area under NCZ is allowed for related compatible development which could be either at one place or at multiple locations, subject to other provals, Acts of different States...”. The Regional Plan-2021 with its restrictions on construction plays a key role in keeping real estate out of the Aravalis of the NCR
Call for green corridors, floating water drones
NCR Board directs environmental monitoring be carried out regularly
A draft Regional Plan2041
for the National Capital Region has made several recommendations towards
protecting the environment,
including improved monitoring, increasing flow of water in the Yamuna, green corridors along roads and
floating water drones to
clean rivers among others.
“Use of floating water
drones/robot technology
should be promoted for
cleaning and collecting garbage from rivers and waterbodies. Autonomous drones
technology like wastesharks/ aqua drones which
work similar to vacuum
cleaners should be adopted
for cleaning of rivers/ channels and waterbodies and to
help in reducing water pollution,” it said
HC for portal to help
students get gadgets
Court asks Kerala government to inform it of its feasibility
The Kerala High Court on
Tuesday directed the State
government to look into the
prospect of setting up a website, with the assistance of
the Kerala State IT Mission,
where needy school students can register so that individuals/companies/NonResident Indians/nongovernmental organisations
could contribute to the purchase of mobiles and digital
gadgets or supply them.
China opens first roadrail
transport link to Indian Ocean
It connects the logistics lines of Singapore, Myanmar, China
