The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) is an initiative by UN to encourage private sector companies to do more in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Under the Global Compact, companies are brought together with UN agencies, labor groups and civil society to catalyze actions in support of broader UN goals, such as MDG and SDG.
UNGA is the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative which makes companies to align strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions that advance societal goals.
In its recent report, it says that India has potential to generate $1 trillion worth of business opportunities and 72 million jobs by 2030 for companies working in the sustainable sectors such as food and agriculture, energy, construction and healthcare.
North East India’s Largest IT hub
Northeast India's sixth and largest Information Technology (IT) hub was inaugurated in Tripura to boost e-governance and to export software technology.
The globally standard IT hub would provide much needed impetus to the upcoming IT and IT services based industries creating huge job opportunities.
Tripura last year got the award from the central government for its performance in IT and e-governance.
Many e-governance based facilities and services already extended up to gram panchayat level in Tripura.
China’s first indigenous aircraft carrier
China has launched its first indigenous aircraft carrier Type 001-A, also known as Shandong.
It is china’s second aircraft carrier as the first one “Liaoning” was purchased from Ukraine.
THAAD
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is an anti-ballistic missile defense system developed by US.
It is designed to shoot down short, medium and intermediate range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase.
The missile carries no warhead, but relies on the kinetic energy to destroy the incoming missile.
A kinetic energy hit minimizes the risk of exploding conventional warhead ballistic missiles and nuclear tipped ballistic missiles will not detonate upon a kinetic energy hit.
U.S and South Korea agreed last year to deploy the THAAD to counter the threat of missile launches by North Korea.
