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• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 24, Jul 2021

India has scored 90.32% in United Nation’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific's (UNESCAP) latest Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation.After evaluation of 143 economies, the 2021 Survey has highlighted India's significant improvement

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 22, Jul 2021

The United Nations’ culture organisation’s World Heritage Committee voted in a secret ballot to remove the designation because of developments in the city centre and on its historic River Mersey waterfront.The heritage label gives historic sites access to UN conservati

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 19, Jul 2021

Context: UNESCO said the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) should be put on a list of World Heritage Sites that are "in danger" due to the damage it has suffered.China Angle: Deputy Education Minister Tian Xuejun is chairing the meeting of the UN cultural agency’s heritage co

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 08, Jul 2021

Why in news: Isaac Herzog will take office on Wednesday as Israel’s 11th presidentIsrael has an electoral system based on nation-wide proportional representation, and the number of seats which every list receives in the Knesset is proportional to the number of voters who vot

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 08, Jul 2021

Haiti, with a population of 11 million, is considered the poorest country in the Western HemisphereCurrency: Haitian gourdeThe Caribbean nation became the world’s first Black-led republic when it declared its independence from France on New Year’s Day 1804.That day

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 07, Jul 2021

Why in news: Egypt angry as it says Ethiopia has resumed filling GERDThe Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, formerly known as the Millennium Dam and sometimes referred to as Hidase Dam, is a gravity dam on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia.Egypt depends on the Nile for nearly all of

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 05, Jul 2021

Why in news: Chinese astronauts carry out country's first spacewalk outside space stationAny time an astronaut gets out of a vehicle while in space, it is called a spacewalk. A spacewalk is also called an extravehicular activity.Extravehicular activity is any activity done b

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 04, Jul 2021

Why in news: OPEC+ seeks consensus on oil outputMission of OPEC: To coordinate and unify the petroleum policies of its Member Countries and ensure the stabilization of oil markets in order to secure an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consumersThe Organizat

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 04, Jul 2021

Bright orange flames jumping out of water resembling molten lava was dubbed an “eye of fire” in Gulf of MexicoThe Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic OceanIt is bounded by United States, Mexico and Cuba.

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 03, Jul 2021

The designation is included in US State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report.The CSPA list consists of foreign governments that have recruited or used child soldiers.The CSPA prohibits listed governments in the following US programmes: International Mili