INDIA BECAME PARTY IN ITER PROJECT

• Project initiated in Cadarache (France)
• 7 Partners of the Project [US-Russia-China-Japan-South Korea-E.U.-India]
• It is a 500 MW reactor
• India has advanced Technology in Plasma research
• India’s Plasma Research Centre is located in Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
• India’s fusion Programme begun in 1982
• India’s first Tokamak is ‘Aditya’

DARFUR PEACE ACCORD

• Signed in Abuja (Nigeria)
• Between Sudan Government and Sudan Liberation Army (Leader Mini-Minawi)
• Janjaweed, the hostile group Clisarmed

BHUTAN TOWARDS DEMOCRACY

• King Jigme Singye Wangchuk to abdicate in 2008
• Responsibilities are being assumed by Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk (Crown Prince)
• PM of Bhutan :Lyonpo Khandu wangchuk

WORLD WATER FORUM

• 4th; held in Mexico
• UN World Water Development Report – II (a triennial report) released
• Entitled “Water, Shared Responsibility”
• Asia Houses 60% of Population have only 36% water resources of the world
• Last Year’s Development Report ranked India 133 among 180 countries in terms of water availability and 120th among 122 countries in terms of quality

WORLD POPULATION REPORT – 2006

• UN Population Fund (UMFPA) released State of World Population Report 2006 – Titled ‘A Passage To Hope Worren And International Migration’
• US received highest no. of migrants, India stood at 8th in rank according to the report
• Worren constitutes almost half of all global migrants worldwide - 95 million or 49.6%

ECUADOR (CAP. QUITO)

• Left Wing economist Raffle Correa has been elected President of Ecuador