TITBITS:
1. The government recently announced ambitious plans
for the Indian textile and apparel sector, targeting a total business of
USD 350 billion annually by 2030 and aiming to generate 3.5 crore jobs.
However, the sector has faced significant challenges in recent years, casting
doubt on the feasibility of achieving this goal.
2. Monitored global wildlife populations have declined
by 73 per cent in the last 50 years, owing to habitat loss, degradation,
impacts of climate change and invasive species, the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF)
biennial living planet report said. In India, the decline of three vulture
species-white-rumped vulture, Indian vulture, and slender-billed vulture, has
been alarming.
3.The World Development Report 2024 (WDR), published
by the World Bank, explores the phenomenon of the middle-income trap. This term
refers to the stagnation of growth rates that occurs when economies reach a
certain level of income but struggle to transition to high-income status.
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5.
NOBLE PRICE FOR LITERATURE:
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South Korea’s Han Kang won the Nobel Prize 2024 in Literature for
her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and
exposes the fragility of human life“.
· She is the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her Notable Works are The Vegetarian (which won the Man Booker International Prize in 2016), The White Book, Human Acts, and Greek Lessons.