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United Nations Security Council adopted the UNSC Resolution 2593.

What is UNSC resolution 2593?

• It was put forward by US, UK, and France and adopted after 13 council members voted in favour
• The resolution demands that Afghan territory should not be used to threaten/attack any country or to shelter/ train terrorists or plan/finance terrorist acts
• It specifically mentions individuals and entities designated by UNSC Resolution 1267, i.e., Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
• The permanent members  Russia and China abstained from voting (not veto), while the rest of the 13 members voted in favour.

The UNSC 1267 Committee (also known as AlQaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee) was established as a result of resolution 1267 in 1999

If an individual/organisation is included in the 1267 list, it helps in restricting their movement, financial penalties and assets freeze among others

What is the significance of the resolution?

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Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) released the GDP data for the first quarter of the current financial year (2021-22)

What are available data for Q1?

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Indian  policy’s  aim to empower the disadvantaged by turning  the higher education multilingual has to be analyzed in the prism of internationalization of education

What are the recent developments in this regard?

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The government’s move to scrap the retrospective tax law would act as a booster for the reviving economy

What is retrospective tax?

 What is the issue?

• NSO Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data for 2019-2020 was released recently.
• While the increase in Workforce Participation Rate (WPR) is taken for good, the underlying reasons suggest at a deeper crisis in the economy.

What are the PLFS and WPR?

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