India emphasises for “African leadership & Africa-driven solutions to Africa’s problems”




🅾️ What is the ‘Silencing the Guns in Africa’ initiative?

🔵 Officially commenced in 2017, ‘Silencing the Guns in Africa’ is a flagship initiative of the African Union’s (AU) Agenda 2063.

🔵The initiative is playing a significant role in maintaining peace and stability on the continent.

👉 Aiming to end all wars, conflicts, gender-based violence, and to prevent genocide, it calls for addressing the structural root causes and drivers of conflict for sustainable development.


👉 However, the gains of the initiative faced a major setback because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Nations, through its United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is involved at various levels with the AU to further strengthen the ‘Silencing the Guns’ agenda.

☕️🫖Tea-riffic Kangra leaves, grab European GI tag!


🌿The European Commission (EC) has granted geographical indication (GI) for India’s Kangra tea, which is grown in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district. The tag will help Kangra tea to get an opportunity to enter the European market.

🌿Known for its special flavour, the production of the famous Kangra Tea had once dwindled because of a lack of labour and the high cost of production. It then received the Indian Gl tag in 2005. Since then, the cultivation and development of tea have improved constantly in the Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh

🤝India-EU Relations

“Today we registered a new Geographical Indication from India! Kangra tea is grown 900-1,400 meters above sea level, on the slopes of the Dhauladhar mountain range in the Western Himalayas. It has a nutty, woody aroma and a sweet aftertaste,”
tweeted EU Agriculture.

🅾️India-EU relations date to the early 1960s, with India being amongst the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the European Economic Community. They both lay strong emphasis on GI, attaching high importance to local food, maintaining local traditions and preserving and promoting rich cultural heritage

🌿Purity coming straight from the Himalayas!🌿

✅️ The Himalayas have been the origin of purity and also the farmer of one of the most scrumptious tea leaves. Kangra, in Dharamsala, remains underrated for its exquisite varieties of black and green teas. Only recently, the tea estates of Kangra have caught the global spotlight.

✅️Kangra tea’ is produced using high-efficiency whole leaf-orthodox manufacture which means that ‘Kangra tea’ is made up of whole leaf and flavour-enriched leaves with the highest content of polyphenols (catechins).

✅️ Kangra leaves are known to have Calcium, Zinc, Folic Acids, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2 and Vitamin B6. Its antioxidants help prevent brain, heart and bone disorders along with nursing in lowering cholesterol & preventing several cancers. It nourishes the skin from within and wards off viral & bacterial infections helping build immunity.

Tea tourism☕️☕️☕️


🅾️ Tea tourism is gaining ground in Kangra. Several tea estates and factories in Palampur and Dharamsala offer factory tours as well as homestays for those inquisitive discovering about tea.

🅾️The history of Kangra tea dates back to 1849 when Dr Jameson, then superintendent of the Botanical Tea Gardens, pronounced the region ideal for tea cultivation. Being one of India’s smallest tea regions makes Kangra green and black tea all the more exclusive. While the black tea has a sweet lingering aftertaste, the green tea has a delicate woody aroma.

🔵The demand for Kangra tea has been increasing steadily and much of it is bought by natives and exported to Kabul and Central Asia via Peshawar

🅾️ Here's an interesting nugget about RBI

✅️Since it first started operations on 1 April 1935, many countries seceded from India including Burma in 1937.

✅️But #RBI continued to act as the country's Central Bank till its Japanese occupation & later up to April 1947

#DidYouKnow? the Skyview at #Patnitop in J&K is India’s first certified #SustainableTourism Destination!


#incredibleindia🇮🇳

♥️Glimpse of next emerging cinema from the East #utkal #odhisha on Utkal Dibas🇮🇳

✅️ Vahana of lord Vishnu, his spiritual association becomes prominent in the devarāja cult, famously practiced in Thailand&Cambodia. He is the guardian of temples in both Hindu&Buddhist traditions of Southeast Asia.

🖼️ Garuda I pala I 11 century C.E

🅾️ Kutch Mud Work, popularly known as Lippan Kaam, refers to the unique geometric motifs depicting deities, symbols and nature-inspired figures on the walls of mud houses in #Gujarat.
Lippan means ‘clay’ or ‘dung’ and Kaam means ‘work’.

#AmritMahotsav #OurCultureOurPride

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📚Bakasht Movement :

(Topic : Modern History)

* It was a peasant movement in Bihar directed against landlords to fight forceful eviction of Peasants from Bakasht lands.

* It happened in Bihar in 1937-38

* The landlords often evicted the tenants from Bakasht land.

* Bakshast lands were those which the occupancy tenants had lost to zamindars , mostly during the Depression years, due to non-payment of rent, and which they often continued to cultivate as share-croppers.

* In 1937, when the Congress Ministry was formed, the Kisan Sabha thought that it was an appropriate time to raise the issue of bakasht and demand for restoration of bakshast lands.

* The passing of the Restoration of Bakshast Land Act and the Bihar Tenancy Act in 1938 brought much relief to the peasants.

📚Borrowing Powers of the Union and the states :-

(Topic : Polity)

* The Union shall have unlimited power of borrowing, upon the security of the revenues of India either within India or outside. The Union Executive shall exercise the power subject only to such limits as may be fixed by Parliament from time to time. (Article 292).

* The borrowing power of a state is , however , subject to a number of constitutional limitations :-

a) It cannot borrow outside India. Under the Govt of India Act, 1935, the states had the power to borrow outside India with the consent of the Centre. But this power is totally denied to the states by the Constitution ; the Union shall have the sole right to enter into International monetary market in the matter of borrowing.

b) The State Executive shall have the power to borrow, within the territory of India upon the security of the revenues of the state ; subject to the following conditions.

✅ Limitations as may be imposed by the state Legislature

✅ If the Union has guaranteed an outstanding loan of the state , no fresh loan can be raised by the state without consent of the Union Government.

✅ The Govt of India may itself offer a loan to a state, under a law made by Parliament. So long as such a loan or any part thereof remains outstanding, no fresh loan can be raised by the state without the consent of the Govt of India. The Govt of India may impose terms in giving it's consent as above. (Article 293)

Q.1835) Consider the following famous literary works.

1. Bartaman Bharat

2. Lectures from Colombo to Almora

3. Bidhaba Bibaha

Which of the above are associated with Swami Vivekananda?