India-Finland sign MoU on biodiversity conservation

On November 26, 2020, India and Finland signed Memorandum of Understanding in the field of biodiversity conservation and environment protection. The agreement was signed by the Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and his counterpart Krista Mikkonen of Finland. According to the Memorandum of Understanding, the countries will exchange their best practices in areas such as prevention ..

Month: Current Affairs - November, 2020

Category: International Current Affairs

Topics: Biodiversity • Environment Protection • Finland • india finland • Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) • Nuclear energy • Prakash Javadekar

Sustainable Development Solutions Network publishes World Happiness Report

The World Happiness Report is published by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network. This year, the report has ranked Finland as the happiest country for the third time in a row. People in 156 countries were asked to evaluate their own levels of happiness while measures like GDP, social support, personal freedom and levels ..

Topics: Finland • United Nations • World Happiness Report

United Nations launches World Happiness Report, 2020: India ranks 144

On March 20, 2020 United Nations released the World Happiness Report on the International Day of Happiness, 2020. Finland ranked first in the report and India ranked 144. Around 156 countries were assessed under the ranking. This is the eighth World Happiness Report prepared by the organization. This year the report has given a special ..

Month: Current Affairs - March, 2020

Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs

Topics: Denmark • Finland • International Day of Happiness • United Nations • World Happiness Index • World Happiness Report

India ranked 51st in Democracy Index by EIU

London based the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has released 2019 Democracy Index’s global ranking in which as per the report, India slipped 10 ranks to be placed in 51, this year. The overall score of India also came down to 6.90 from the earlier score of 7.23, the downtrend has been cited due to erosion ..

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020

Topics: Bangladesh • China • Democracy Index • Economist Intelligence Unit • Finland • Iceland • London • New Zealand • Norway • Pakistan • Sri lanka • Sweden

Social Mobility Index launched by WEF

The Cologny-Geneva-based non-profit organization, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has released a new index named Social Mobility Index on Monday 20th January 2020 that as per the organization will provide a much-needed assessment of social mobility worldwide. India was ranked 76 out of 82 countries in the ranking. The index assessed the countries across five ..

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020

Topics: Bangladesh • China • Denmark • Finland • Norway • Pakistan • Russian Federation • Social Mobility Index • Sweden • United States • World Economic Forum