World Conference on Environment
- The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the 3rd ‘World Conference on Environment’ organized by the National Green Tribunal in New Delhi on March 25, 2017.
- The President said recent studies and systematic reviews indicate that environmental factors are responsible for an estimated 24% of the global burden of disease in terms of healthy life years lost and 23 % of all deaths. Children are the worst sufferers of the adverse impact of environmental diseases. 24% of all deaths under the age of 15 are due to diarrhoea, malaria and respiratory diseases – all of which are environment related. 19% of the deaths caused by Cancer worldwide are attributed to carcinogens that unmindful industrialization produces.
- The President complimented the National Green Tribunal – India’s premier environment watch dog for facilitating this forum for wide ranging discussions on environmental issues of universal concern.
Landmark Historical Events
- Mahatma Gandhi returned to India in 1915
- Champaran Satyagraha – 1917 (centenary year being celebrated)
- Ahmedabad mill-worker’s strike – 1918
- Lucknow Pact – 1916
TROPEX
- The navy’s annual Theatre Readiness Operational Exercise (TROPEX) got underway on January 24.
- The month-long exercise will have ships and aircraft of both the Western and Eastern Naval Commands, as also assets from the Indian Air Force, Indian Army and the Indian Coast Guard exercising together.
- The exercise is aimed at testing combat readiness of the combined fleets of the Indian Navy, and the assets of the Indian Air Force, Indian Army and the Indian Coast Guard. It will also strengthen interoperability and joint operations in a complex environment.
G-20 Framework Working Group
- G20 Leaders at the Pittsburgh Summit held in September 2009 had committed to work together to ensure that global growth is strong, sustainable and balanced. To that end, the Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth was launched.
- G-20 Framework Working Group (FWG) is one of the core working groups of G-20. The mandate of FWG is to deliberate on the challenges facing the global economy and the policy options that countries can use to address these challenges. It is co-chaired by Canada and India.
- Since the inception of the FWG in 2009, this is the fourth occasion that India is hosting this meeting.
- In the forthcoming meeting in Varanasi, one important focus of the G-20 FWG will be to deliberate on the inclusive growth agenda of G-20 and to formulate a framework that will enable countries to help frame country specific inclusive growth policies.
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
- The Central Government and the State Governments are required to consult the Commission on all major policy matters affecting Scheduled Tribes.
- The Commission can suo moto take cognisance of violation of constitutional and other legal safeguards of Scheduled Tribes.
Brahma Kumaris
- Brahma Kumaris is a worldwide spiritual movement dedicated to personal transformation and world renewal. Founded in India in 1937, Brahma Kumaris has spread to over 110 countries on all continents and has had an extensive impact in many sectors as an international NGO. However, their real commitment is to helping individuals transform their perspective of the world from material to spiritual.
- The spiritual headquarters of Brahma Kumaris is in Mount Abu, India. Brahma Kumaris is the largest spiritual organisation in the world led by women.
- Although women hold the top administrative positions, the women who hold these positions have always made decisions in partnership with the men.
- Brahma Kumaris was founded by Dada Lekhraj Kripalani, a retired Indian businessman, in 1937 in Hyderabad, a city now in Pakistan.
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