News of The Day – 16 February 2024

Sources: The Hindu, Indian Express, Live Mint, Business Standard, Economic Times, and PIB.

• Why has Ladakh turned to protests?
• Who is behind the agitation, and What are their demand?
• How has the Centre responded? 
• Additional Reading: What is the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution and Its Significance?

• What are the Key Highlights of SC judgment?
• What are the Implication of Judgements?
• Right to Information Act and Political Parties?
• Additional Reading: Electoral Bonding 

• Key Highlights of PM Visit to Qatar
• Significance of India- Qatar Relation
• Additional Reading: Qatar’s Released Eight Former Indian Navy Officers from Death Penalty

• Peru: Geographic Location and Features
• India-Latin America Relations
• MERCOSUR Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA).

The Global Pulses Conference

• What is the Global Pulses Conference and Its Significance?
• Pulses Production in India and Import of Pulses 

Strategic AIFs may be excluded from RBI’s evergreening rules

• What are Strategically Important Funds?
• What is RBI’s Evergreening Rule?

Settle disputes by mediation: IBBI panel recommends

• What are the Key Recommendations of the IBBI Panel?
• What is a voluntary mediation framework and Its Significance?
• Additional Reading: Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and its key provisions. 

Digital Twin Technology

• What is Digital Twin Technology?
• What are Its Applications?
• Additional Reading: Sangam: Digital Twin initiative.

• Key Findings Of Report.
• What are India’s Renewable Energy Targets and Present Status?
• Additional Reading: India’s NDC

• What is Tarai Arc Landscape?
• What are UN’s World Restoration Flagships and Their Significance?

• Key Provision of Wildlife Protection Act 1972
• What are the key challenges with the WPA Act?
• Additional Reading: Human-Animal Wildlife Conflict

• What is the Defence Procurement Procedure? 
• Self-Reliance in the Defence Sector?
• What is the Government e-marketplace and Its key features?

• Corruption as a manifestation of failure of the core ethical values of society?
• What are the Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Fighting Corruption in India?