#International
Iran-U.S. war of words escalates
- Iran warns US to block the Hormuz ki khadi –the main passage of oil transportation (around 1/5th of total world’s oil supply)
#Editorial,#International
India-Japan relations
- § After tsunami, Japan officially declares that Japan will not close civilian nuclear deal with India
- § Japan will share lessons and learning from Fukushima incident with India
- § Japan will help in Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, Delhi Metro’s Phase-3, and Biodiversity conservation project in west Bengal
- § Japan is setting up about 46 agro-processing zones in India
- § Japan will share his High speed train’s technique
- § In Feb both countries signed CEPA
- § Chinese media sees a “containment strategy” behind India-Japan meet.
- § Containment strategy : A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power, ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully
#Environment-
Three-layer system for Western Ghats
protection mooted
- § Western Ghats -Gujarat, Goa, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala
- § The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel has proposed a three layer system
- 1. Western Ghats Ecology Authority (WGEA) (as the apex body) of 24-member
- 2. State authorities
- 3. district ecology committees
- Western Ghat is one of the world's Biodiversity Hot spot
#Defence
Navy floats out first Indigenous Aircraft
Carrier
- § will be named after the legendary INS Vikrant
# Other imp terms
- 1. Japanese encephalitis and acute encephalitis syndrome(ACR)
- 2. Cyclone thane
- 3. Hormuz ki khadi
- 4. sine die Lok Sabha adjourned sine die
