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India – Afghanistan: Strategic Partnership Agreement Signed
India and Afghanistan have signed the following agreements recently: Agreement on Strategic Partnership between India and Afghanistan MoU on Cooperation in the Field of Development of Hydrocarbons MoU on Cooperation in the Field of Mineral Resources Development Objective of the ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
India-Myanmar Trade Relations
Recently, India and Myanmar have agreed to set a $ 3 bn trade target to be achieved by 2015. At present, the bi-lateral trade b/w India and Myanmar is $ 1.5 bn. Please note that India and Myanmar have identified ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Current Affairs : November 20, 2011
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims observed The International Road Federation (IRF) observed the World Day for Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. The United Nations had endorsed it in 2005 as a global day to be observed every ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
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
Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958(AFSPA)
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram recently said that a consensus is being built to amend Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA). The minister said that the Act can be amended only after a consensus is built among the government.Regarding ..
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
Only Bengal campaign
Only Bengal campaign has been recently launched by Times Of India to catalyse the process of dropping the “West” from the name of the state. They point out – Residents of West Bengal are called Bengalis and not West Bengalis; ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2011
Disagreement in Panel of 3 Interlocutors in Jammu & Kashmir
In October 2010, Government of India had appointed a group of three interlocutors to hold sustained dialogue with all sections of the people in Jammu and Kashmir. They were: Dr. Dileep Padgaonkar: Shri Dileep Padgaonkar is a journalist, editor and ..