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SAFTA →Current Position & Issues
Discuss the role of SAFTA in regional trade cooperation. What are the issues & hurdles for its full Operationalisation? SAFTA refers to the “Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA)”. This agreement was reached in 2004 in the 12th ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Tit-Bits –November 2011
Tit-Bits New albino spider species found Scientists claim to have found a new species of trap-door spider — the albino spider — near Northam in Australia. US giant Omnicom will buy Mudra Omnicom Group will acquire a majority stake in ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Current Affairs : November 11, 2011
17th SAARC summit wraps up with poverty, inequalities in mind Renewing their commitment to alleviate poverty and reduce income inequalities within the societies and to improve the quality of life and well-being of their people through people-centred sustainable development, the ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
SAFTA →Role in Regional Trade Cooperation, Current Position & Issues
Discuss the role of SAFTA in regional trade cooperation. What are the issues & hurdles for its full Operationalisation? SAFTA refers to the “Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA)”. This agreement was reached in 2004 in the 12th ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Strategic Importance of Myanmar
Some notes from summary of a book of Thant Myint-U, a former UN official, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and author of ‘Where China meets India“. For thousands of years, Indian and Chinese civilizations have been separated not only by ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Indian Community Welfare Fund
Indian Community Welfare Fund, ICWF has been set up in all Indian missions by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs. The Fund has become operational at Indian Missions in all the 17 Emigration Clearance Required (ECR) Countries from 1st of ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Urbanization in India
India will face an unprecedented scale of urbanisation – 350 million Indians will move to cities by 2030. This number is likely to double to 700 million by 2050. This is 2.5 times the size of the US’s present population ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Current Affairs : November 2, 2011
Odisha Government prepares Rs 20 crore Plan to protect elephant from electrocution After some 100 elephants lost their lives, Orissa government has formulated a Rs 20 crore action plan to protect the wild elephants from electrocution in elephant corridors. It ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Nileema Mishra and Harish Hande of India win Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2011
The 6 winners of Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2011 are: Nileema Mishra (India): a lender to the poorest in Maharashtra, was recognised for her purpose-driven zeal to work tirelessly with villagers in Maharashtra…to address both their aspirations and their adversities ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2011
Current Affairs : October 15, 2011
RBI enhances per transaction limit to $ 3,000 for exporters RBI increased the limit for holding foreign currency abroad to $3,000 per transaction for exporters against the existing $ 500. As per the RBI, the RBI the verdict taken for ..