Iran ignores India, starts work on Chabahar-Zahedan railway project
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Iran ignores India, starts work on Chabahar-Zahedan railway project
- Iran dropped India from the significant Chabahar rail project citing that India shows irresponsible and delayed funding to this ambitious plan of India.
- Iran's Chabahar port is the only deep seaport and India's gateway to central Asia, which was inaugurated in 2017.
- For this, India needed to develop better connectivity to the port - enter the Chabahar-Zahedan railway line, the 628-km-long track connecting the port to Zahedan.
- The roots for this rift between two countries comes from the US sanctions on Iran, which affected the IRCON-Iranian Rail Ministry MoU for the construction of the Chabahar-Zahedan rail project.
- Now china gained this situation against India by finalising a $400 billion strategic partnership deal with Iran in favour of it.
Fact: Chabahar-Zahedan railway project is a trilateral agreement between India-Iran-Afghanistan.
President of Iran - Hassan Rouhani.
UN report says 8.9% of the world’s population, went hungry in 2019
- UN’s annual report on “The state of food security and nutrition in the world- Tansforming food systems for affordable healthy diets” states that 8.9% of the world’s population, which is approximately 690 million people, went hungry in 2019.
- Which ultimately reveals that the present count is an increase of 10 million since 2018 and of nearly 60 million since 2014.
- The report has been prepared by five UN agencies, namely
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
World Food Programme (WFP)
World Health Organization (WHO)
Fact: Headquarters of UN – New York, USA.
Pangolin Scale Seizure Jumps to 10 times in 4 years: UNODC report
- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has released its “World Wildlife Crime Report” for the year 2020.
- In which it states that, Pangolins the most trafficked animal in the earth being seized for its scales has jumped to 10 times in between 2014 to 2018.
- Pangolins scales has more medicinal values, which are used to treat physical and psychological ailments.
- Nigeria and china are the two countries, which accounts for 99% legal trade on their scale.
Fact: UNODC headquarters – Vienna, Austria
ECONOMIC NEWS
Mukesh Ambani becomes World’s 6th richest man - Bloomberg Billionaires Index
- Bloomberg Billionaires Index has ranked the chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd(RIL), Mukesh Ambani as the World’s 6th richest man with a worth USD 72.4 billion.
- With this he surpassed Elon Musk, co-founder & CEO of Tesla and Alphabet Inc. co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
- The Jeff Bezos (US), CEO of Amazon has ranked the 1st position followed by Bill Gates (US) and Bernard Arnault (France) in the 2nd and 3rd positions respectively.
NATIONAL NEWS
NABARD organised a ‘digital choupal’ to mark its 39th Foundation Day
- National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has organised a “digital choupal” a video conferencing for getting all the farmers associated with NABARD for the past 7 years in all the development projects.
- This was organised during the celebration of NABARD’s 39th foundation day.
- During which NABARD has announced funding for two schemes they are as follows
- Rs 5,000 crore of refinance scheme for banks and financial institutions for supporting the beneficiaries of 2150 watershed management projects.
- Rs 5,000 cr for turning Primary Agricultural Credit services into multi service centres for providing continuous credit support to their farmers.
Fact: headquarters of NABARD – Mumbai
APPOINTMENTS
Hemang Amin Appointed as the Interim CEO of BCCI
- Hemang Amin is appointed as the Interim CEO of BCCI following the resignation of Rahul Johri.
- He is currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Indian Premier League (IPL).
Fact: BCCI – Board of Control for Cricket in India
President of BCCI – Saurav Ganguly
Headquarters of BCCI – Mumbai, Maharashtra