Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is in Delhi to participate in the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth said that the world body must fully support India’s leadership on climate change and its development plans.
U.K. immigration plan
Recently Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May released Uk immigration plan.
Toilet-for-all: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first global guidelines on sanitation and health.
Geoparks
An ancient circular lake created by a meteorite strike in Maharashtra and a hexagonal mosaic of basaltic rocks in an island off Udupi are poised to become global geoparks under a Geological Survey of India (GSI) plan.
Rape survivor can’t subvert trial
The turning hostile of a rape survivor should not deter a court from continuing with the trial.
Finance Commission to consider Bihar’s demand
Finance Commission Chairman N K Singh said it would “sympathetically” consider the issue of regional inequality in the eastern region and the demand for increased share of central funds to Bihar.
U.S., Canada: free trade pact
Canada and the U.S. reached a deadline deal on a new free trade pact that will include Mexico, after more than a year of talks to revamp a pact President Donald Trump had labelled a disaster.
Manufacturing PMI rises to 52.2 in Sept.
Factory production improved a tad as September’s Purchasing Manager Index (PMI) rose to 52.2 per cent from 1.7 per cent of August.
Core sector growth slows to 4.2% in August
The growth of eight infrastructure sectors slowed down to 4.2% in August against 4.4% a year ago, on account of decline in production of crude oil and fertiliser.
Probe into type-2 polio virus contamination
The government has ordered a probe after traces of poliovirus type 2 were found in some batches of oral polio vaccine (OPV).