{"id":1003,"date":"2018-06-08T11:18:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T05:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2018-06-08T11:18:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T05:48:31","slug":"current-affairs-news-plus-8-jun-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/current-affairs-news-plus-8-jun-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Affairs News Plus (8-Jun-2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Global Peace Index (GPI)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The\u00a0<b>Global Peace Index<\/b>\u00a0(<b>GPI<\/b>) is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations&#8217; and regions&#8217; peacefulness. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">It is the product of the\u00a0<b>Institute for Economics and Peace<\/b><b>\u00a0(IEP)<\/b> and developed in consultation with an international panel of peace experts from peace institutes and\u00a0think tanks\u00a0with data collected and collated by the\u00a0<b>Economist Intelligence Unit. <\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The list was launched in <b>May 2007<\/b> and updates have been made on an annual basis since then. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">It is claimed to be the first study to rank countries around the world according to their peacefulness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The index gauges global peace using <b>three broad themes:\u00a0<\/b><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><b>the level of safety and security in society,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><b>the extent of domestic and international conflict, and\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><b>the degree of militarization.<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>India &amp; Global Peace Index<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">India has moved up four places to the 137th rank among 163 countries on the 2018 Global Peace Index, due to a reduction in the level of violent crime driven by increased law enforcement, according to a report by an Australian think tank. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Iceland remains the most peaceful country in the world, a position it has held since 2008. New Zealand, Austria, Portugal and Denmark also sit in the top five most peaceful rankings. Syria remains the least peaceful country in the world, a position it has held for the past five years. Afghanistan, South Sudan, Iraq and Somalia comprise the remaining least peaceful countries<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><strong>Pietermaritzburg Railway Station<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0095.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1004\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0095-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0095-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0095-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0095-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0095-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0095.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">It is a railway station in South Africa where a young Mahatma Gandhi was thrown out of a \u201cWhites-only\u201d compartment 125 years ago<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">On the night of June 7, 1893, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, then a young lawyer, was thrown off the train\u2019s first class compartment at Pietermaritzburg station after he refused to give up his seat as ordered by racially prejudiced officials<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The incident led him to develop his Satyagraha principles of peaceful resistance and mobilize people in South Africa and in India against the discriminatory rules of the British<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Peace dividend<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Refers to the economic benefit received by the citizens of a country when the government redirects spending from military to civilian purposes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">For instance, countries that took part in World War II witnessed an economic boom after the war ended and soldiers returned to work in the more peaceful sectors of the economy. Resources that were earlier allocated towards war efforts now became available for civilian uses, thus improving living standards. The reduction of taxes, which were earlier used to fund the military, also increased the incentive to work.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Hague Treaty <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction or Hague Abduction Convention is a multilateral treaty developed by the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) that provides an expeditious method to return a child internationally abducted by a parent from one member country to another<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Convention was drafted to ensure the prompt return of children who have been abducted from their country of habitual residence or wrongfully retained in a contracting state not their country of habitual residence<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The primary intention of the Convention is to preserve whatever status quo child custody arrangement existed immediately before an alleged wrongful removal or retention thereby deterring a parent from crossing international boundaries in search of a more sympathetic court<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Science Based Targets<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Science Based Targets is a joint initiative of CDP, the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Resources Institute (WRI) and WWF.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">It is an initiative to drive corporate climate actions globally.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">It sets emissions reduction targets to ensure that the transformational action is aligned with current climate science.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">It is &#8216;science-based&#8217; as it is in line with the scale required to keep global temperature increase below 2\u00b0C compared to per-industrial temperatures.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">\u2018Science-based target setting\u2019 is a way of boosting companies\u2019 competitive advantage in transition to a low-carbon economy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Methanol Economy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Methanol Economy is the \u201cBridge\u201d to the dream of a complete \u201cHydrogen based fuel systems\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Methanol is a scalable and sustainable fuel, that can be produced from a variety of feed stock like Natural Gas, Coal (Indian High Ash Coal), Bio-mass, Municipal Solid waste and most importantly from CO2<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Methanol is a clean burning drop in fuel which can replace both petrol &amp; diesel in transportation &amp; LPG, Wood, Kerosene in cooking fuel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Concept of \u201cMethanol Economy\u201d is being actively pursued by China, Italy, Sweden, Israel, US, Australia, Japan and many other European countries.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Peace Index (GPI) The\u00a0Global Peace Index\u00a0(GPI) is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations&#8217; and regions&#8217; peacefulness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[558,555,557,553,552,556,554],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-global-peace-index-gpi","tag-hague-treaty","tag-mahatma-gandhi","tag-methanol-economy","tag-peace-dividend","tag-pietermaritzburg-railway-station","tag-science-based-targets"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}