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In what is being read as a reference to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific region including at the India-China border, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday called for raising voice against “unilateral attempts to change the status quo”.
The remarks came during a session “Toward a Peaceful, Stable and Prosperous World” at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, and came a day after the Indian Prime Minister had told Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that New Delhi will do “whatever is possible” to find a solution to the conflict.
From the very beginning, we have maintained that dialogue and diplomacy is the only way. And we will make every possible effort to contribute, in whatever way India can, for resolving this situation.”
He flagged the impact of the war on food and energy security and ineffectiveness of the UN. “It is necessary that all countries respect the UN charter, international law and sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries.
Raise your voice together against unilateral attempts to change the status quo. India has always been of the opinion that any tension, any dispute should be resolved through peaceful means, through dialogue.
And if there is a solution from the law, then it should be accepted. And it was in this spirit that India resolved its land and maritime boundary dispute with Bangladesh.”
India can become biggest chip producer in next 5 years (Page no. 3)
(GS Paper 3, Economy)
India will become the biggest semiconductor manufacturing destination in the world in the next five years with the Centre ensuring that the right ecosystem is built, with production in India being the cheapest globally.
In December 2021, the Centre had announced a $10 billion semiconductor manufacturing plan with a fabrication plant expected to get approval soon.
We know for sure that in the coming 4-5 years, India will become the biggest semiconductor manufacturing destination in the world if you have the ecosystem in place. Our focus is making sure that the right ecosystem is built.
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G7s climate wishlist and the realities of efforts to cap warming (Page no. 13)
(GS Paper 2, International Organisation)
A series of recent studies and reports have once again sounded the red alert on climate change, saying the situation was worsening rapidly, and the window of opportunity for effective action was narrowing faster than ever before.
Last week, the World Meteorological Organisation said the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold was likely to be breached, at least temporarily, over the next five years.
It also said that at least one of the next five years was almost certain to become the warmest year on record.
A few other studies have suggested that this year, 2023, is on track to become the warmest ever, surpassing 2016. New research claims that the heat wave in India and some neighbouring countries last month was almost certainly due to climate change, the probability of its occurrence having been increased at least 30 times by global warming.
Studies calling for an immediate scale-up of climate action have been appearing almost weekly now. However, the response, though quite substantive in the last few years, does not seem to be able to keep pace.
The latest example of the response gap has come from the G7 — first after the meeting of their climate ministers last month, and now following the leaders’ summit.
The G7 — a group of rich and developed nations with the economic heft to create the necessary momentum for global change — repeatedly acknowledged the urgency of the problem but offered little in terms of scaled-up action.
In its final communique in Hiroshima, Japan, the G7 listed a set of milestones that need to be achieved for a realistic chance of containing the global rise in temperatures to within 1.5 degree Celsius.