Daily current affairs 7th October

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October 7, 2022

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# Railways

  • After going for the ‘engineering, procurement and construction’ route to redevelop New Delhi, CSMT and Ahmedabad stations, Indian Railways is looking to go back to its public private partnership for upgrading 16 stations.
  • These stations will include Anand Vihar, Nizamuddin, Old Delhi, Vijaywada, Dadar and Kalyaan.
  • Pune, Coimbatore, Bangalore city, Baroda, Bhopal and Chennai central too have been identified for revamp.
  • The bid value of these 16 stations would be over 10000 crore rupees.

# WHO

  • None of the four drugs potentially linked to the death of 66 children in Gambia are being sold in India currently, the Union health ministry has clarified.
  • Gambia has launched a door to door campaign to remove the syrups blamed for the deaths.
  • The Indian pharmaceutical company only had the license to export and not sell in Indian markets.

# UNHRC

  • India on Thursday abstained on a draft resolution in the UNHRC in Geneva on promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Srilanka.
  • It was adopted with 20 nations voting in favour and seven against.
  • While China and Pakistan voted against, among the 20 nations that abstained were Japan and Nepal.
  • India abstained on Thursday from voting in the UNHRC on a proposal by the West seeking a debate on human rights abuses in Xinjiang, China.

# India-UK

  • Britain’s Indian origin home secretary Suella Braverman has cast doubts over a proposed free trade agreement with India over the issue of migration.
  • It would pitch her in a possible clash with PM Liz truss, who wants a FTA with India.

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