Daily Current Affairs for TNPSC Group Exams, Upsc Exams, SSC, RRB, BANK & All Government Exams – The Hindu – 16 July 2022
1. Gotabaya quits, Ranil sworn in as Acting President of Sri Lanka
- Front Page.
- IR.
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa has officially resigned as Sri Lanka’s President, the Parliamentary Speaker announced. According to the Sri Lankan Constitution, if the office of the President falls vacant, a new President must be elected through Parliament within one month. Acting President Mr. Wickremesinghe, according to political sources, has set his sights on the country’s top office that has eluded him in his nearly half century career in national politics.
2. Assam, Arunachal CMs agree to border realignment based on 1960 papers
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- Inter State Disputes, Polity.
- The boundary line shown on 29 topo-sheets by a high-powered committee in 1960 will be taken as the basis for the realignment of the Arunachal Pradesh Assam boundary towards resolving decades of dispute. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Pema Khandu on Friday signed the Namsai Declaration for minimising the interstate boundary dispute involving 123 villages.
Daily Current Affairs for TNPSC Group Exams, Upsc Exams, SSC, RRB, BANK & All Government Exams – The Hindu – 16 July 2022
3. The Ukraine war and the return to Eurocentrism
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- IR.
- For centuries, Europe imagined itself to be the centre of the world — its order, politics and culture. Decolonisation, the emergence of the United States as the western world’s sole superpower, and the rise of the rest dramatically diminished the centuries old domination of the European states and their ability to shape the world in their own image. The contemporary international order is hardly Euro-centric: dominated by the U.S., and challenged by rising great powers or superpowers, it is moving toward a multipolar order wherein Europe’s system shaping capabilities have been rather limited.
4. Deficit Doubts
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- Economy.
- The Finance Ministry is sanguine about India’s economic recovery and has asserted that major macro-economic risks have subsided over the past six weeks. The Government’s cautious optimism is tinged with impending concerns of a speedier tightening of monetary policies by the U.S. Federal Reserve and the resultant dip in asset markets, which can mar sentiment and consumption, on top of persistent geopolitical strife.
Daily Current Affairs for TNPSC Group Exams, Upsc Exams, SSC, RRB, BANK & All Government Exams – The Hindu – 16 July 2022
5. Rise in unvaccinated children in India
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- Health, Issues Related to Children.
- The number of children in India who were unvaccinated or missed their first dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) combined vaccine doubled due to the pandemic, rising from 1.4 million in 2019 to 2.7 million in 2021, as the world recorded the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in approximately 30 years, according to official data published by the WHO and UNICEF. This is a red alert for child health. We are witnessing the largest sustained drop in childhood immunisation in a generation. The consequences will be measured in lives.
6. Iran, Belarus to be newest SCO members
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- IR.
- Iran and Belarus are likely to be the two newest additions to the China and Russia backed Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) grouping. China, Russia and four Central Asian states — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan — were the founding members of the SCO, while India and Pakistan joined the grouping in 2017 in its first round of expansion.
7. Rupee’s slide to inflate import,globaltravel bills
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- Economy, Growth and Development.
- The rupee nearing 80 to a U.S. dollar will make import of items — from crude oil to electronic goods — as well as overseas education and foreign travel costlier while raising fears that the inflation situation could worsen. With the pandemic receding, travel for work and leisure has risen. This too would become more expensive.