1) Aadi Mahotsav: It is an attempt to showcase tribal culture on the national stage and it celebrates the spirit of tribal culture, crafts, cuisine, commerce, and traditional art since 2017.
- It is an annual initiative of the Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation Limited (TRIFED) under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
- The main objective of conducting Aadi Mahotav is to prevent the middlemen from exploiting the tribals and provide direct access to markets to tribals.
2) RAISINA DIALOGUE: It is a multilateral conference committed to addressing the most challenging issues facing the global community. Every year, global leaders in policy, business, media, and civil society are hosted in New Delhi to discuss cooperation on a wide range of pertinent international policy matters. The conference is hosted by the Observer Research Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs.
- Observer Research Foundation is an independent think tank based in New Delhi that provides non-partisan, independent, well-researched analyses and inputs to diverse decision-makers in governments, business communities, and academia and civil society around the world.
3) Muscat Manifesto: Third Global High-Level Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance (Nov 2022) held in Muscat. Over 30 countries adopted the Muscat Ministerial Manifesto on AMR.
- The Muscat Manifesto recognised the need to accelerate political commitments in the implementation of One Health action for controlling the spread of AMR. 3 targets:
- Minimising the amount of antimicrobials used in agrifood systems by at least 30 to 50 per cent by the end of this decade.
- Bringing an end to the use of medically important antimicrobials for growth promotion in animals and restricting it for human medicines.
- “Access” group antibiotics – a category of antibiotics that are affordable, safe, and having low risk of antimicrobial resistance – must represent at least 60 per cent of overall antibiotic consumption in humans by 2030.
- It calls upon the Quadripartite organisations –FAO, UNEP, WHO and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) – to provide guidance and technical support to countries to help them achieve the goals related to AMR.
4) Waqf: In legal terms, permanent dedication by a person professing Islam, of any movable or immovable property for any purpose recognised by the Muslim law as pious, religious or charitable.
- A person creating the waqf cannot take back the property. A non-Muslim can also create a waqf but the individual must profess Islam.
- Central Waqf Council is an Indian statutory body established in 1964 under the Waqf Act, 1954 (now a subsection of the Waqf Act, 1995) for the purpose of advising it on matters pertaining to the working of the State Waqf Boards and proper administration of the Waqfs in the country.
- The Council is headed by a Chairperson, who is the Union Minister in charge of Wakfs and there are maximum 20 other members, appointed by Government of India as stipulated in the Wakf Act.
5) Business 20 (B20): Formed in 2010, is the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community. B20 aims to deliver concrete actionable policy recommendations on the priorities by each rotating presidency to spur economic growth and development.
- Manipur hosted the B20 conference. The theme of the conference was Sustainable Growth and Development. It was in line with the theme of the G20 summit, which is One Earth One Family One Future.
