According to the recent news, the Indian Prime Minister took part in the India-European Union (EU) Leaders' Meeting. 

The gathering was held in a cross breed design with the support of heads of all the 27 EU Member States just as the President of the European Council and the European Commission. 

This is the first occasion when that the EU facilitated a gathering with India in the EU+27 design. 

The gathering was the drive of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU. 

Free trade Negotiations: 

Consented to relaunch free trade negotiation arrangements by continuing talks that were suspended for the Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA). 

India and EU had dispatched talks for having a wide-going Free Trade Agreement (FTA), authoritatively called expansive based BTIA, quite a while in the past in 2007. 

The BTIA was proposed to envelop exchange merchandise, administrations and ventures. 

Nonetheless, the discussions slowed down in 2013 over contrasts on market access and development of experts. 

The EU was India's biggest exchanging accomplice merchandise 2019-20, in front of China and the US, with absolute exchange near USD 90 billion. 

Connectivity Partnership: 

Dispatched a yearning and far reaching 'Network Partnership' which is centered around improving computerized, energy, transport and individuals to-individuals availability. 

It depends on the common standards of social, financial, monetary, environment and natural supportability, and regard for worldwide law and responsibilities. 

It will catalyze private and public financing for availability projects. It will likewise encourage new collaborations for supporting network drives in third nations, remembering for the Indo-Pacific. 

Additionally marked the agreement for the second tranche of USD 150 million from the EU for the Pune Metro rail project. 

Climate Change: 

Emphasized their obligation to accomplishing the objectives of the Paris Agreement and consented to reinforce joint endeavour’s for alleviation, variation and strength to the effects of environmental change, just as giving methods for execution remembering money for the setting of Conference of the Parties (COP 26). 

India invited the EU's choice to join the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI). 

Innovation( technology): 

Consented to upgrade reciprocal participation on advanced and arising innovations, for example, 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Quantum and High-Performance Computing including through the early operationalization of the Joint Task Force on AI and the Digital Investment Forum. 

Strengthening Partnership: 

Wanted to additionally reinforce the India-EU Strategic Partnership dependent on a common obligation to popular government, crucial opportunities, law and order and multilateralism. 

India liked the brief help given by the EU and its part states to battle its second Covid wave. 

India likewise mentioned the EU's help for its joint proposition with South Africa for a Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) waiver on immunization creation related licenses in the World Trade Organization (WTO). 

As of late, the US has upheld the proposition. In any case, India neglected to get the help of the European chiefs. 

Forward planning 

India-EU Leaders' Meeting has set a huge achievement by giving another bearing to the Strategic Partnership and giving a new driving force for executing the aspiring India-EU Roadmap 2025 received at the fifteenth India-EU Summit held in July 2020. 

There is a requirement for thorough economic accord that gets solid guidelines, eliminates obstructions to exchange labor and products and speculations and opens up unregulated economies. Tending to the shared trust shortage, working with individuals' versatility and network can improve common arrangement and set out open doors for development and development. 

Improved business collaboration among EU and India can differentiate their essential worth chains and diminish monetary reliance—outstandingly on China.

According to the recent news, the Environment Appraisal Committee which hailed worries over the task has now 'suggested' it 'for award of terms of reference' for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) considers. 

In the time of August, 2020 the Prime Minister had proclaimed that the Andaman and Nicobar islands will be created as a "oceanic and start-up center". 

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About the Project: 

The proposition includes a worldwide holder trans-shipment terminal, a greenfield global air terminal, a force plant and a municipality complex spread more than 166 sq. km. (primarily unblemished beach front frameworks and tropical backwoods). 

It is assessed to cost Rs. 75,000 crore. 

Issues with the Project: 

Lack of details on seismic and tidal wave dangers, freshwater necessity subtleties, and subtleties of the effect on the Giant Leatherback turtle. 

Here is No details of the trees to be felled—a number that could run into millions since 130 sq. km. of the undertaking region has the absolute best tropical woods in India. 

Some of extra issues incorporate about Galathea Bay, the site of the port and the focal point of the NITI Aayog proposition. 

Galathea Bay is a famous settling site in India of the puzzling Giant Leatherback, the world's biggest marine turtle—borne out by studies done more than thirty years. 

Natural studies over the most recent couple of years have revealed various new species, many limited to simply the Galathea district. 

These incorporate the basically jeopardized Nicobar vixen, the Great Nicobar crake, the Nicobar frog, the Nicobar feline snake, another skink (Lipinia sp), another reptile (Dibamus sp,) and a snake of the Lycodon sp that is yet to be portrayed. 

The site determination for the port had been done mostly on specialized and monetary measures, disregarding the natural angles. 

Action Points listed out by the

Committee: 

There is a requirement for an autonomous evaluation of earthly and marine biodiversity, an investigation on the effect of digging, recovery and port activities, including oil slicks.

The requirement for investigations of elective destinations for the port with an emphasis on natural and biological effect, particularly on turtles, examination of hazard taking care of abilities. 

A seismic and tidal wave danger map, a calamity the executives plan, subtleties of work, work camps and their necessities, an evaluation of the aggregate effect, and a hydro-geographical investigation to survey sway on round and surface water systems. 

Great Nicobar 

About: 

Incredible Nicobar is the southernmost island of the Nicobar Islands Archipelago. 

It covers 1,03,870 hectares of one of a kind and undermined tropical evergreen timberland environments. 

It is home to an exceptionally rich biological system, including 650 types of angiosperms, greeneries, gymnosperms, bryophytes, among others.

As far as fauna, there are more than 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this space. 

Ecological Characteristics: 

The Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve harbour’s a wide range of environments containing tropical wet evergreen woods, mountain ranges arriving at a stature of 642 m (Mt. Thullier) above ocean level, and seaside fields. 

Tribe: 

The Mongoloid Shompen Tribe, around 200 in number, live in the woods of the biosphere hold especially along the waterways and streams. 

They are trackers and food finders, reliant upon backwoods and marine assets for food. 

Another Mongoloid Tribe, Nicobarese, around 300 in number, used to live in settlements along the west coast. 

After the torrent in 2004, which crushed their settlement on the western coast, they were moved to Afra Bay in the North Coast and Campbell Bay.

According to the recent news ,The Prime Minister honored Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore on 160th Jayanti on seventh May, 2021. 

Birth: 

He was brought into the world in Calcutta on seventh May 1861. 

About

He was also called to as 'Gurudev', 'Kabiguru', and 'Biswakabi' 

He is viewed as the extraordinary innovative craftsman of present day India and hailed by W.B Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali artist, writer, and painter, who was exceptionally powerful in acquainting Indian culture with the west. 

He was an excellent artistic figure and a prestigious polymath who without any help reshaped the locale's writing and music. 

He was an old buddy of Mahatma Gandhi and is said to have given him the title of Mahatma. 

He had consistently focused on that solidarity in variety is the lone conceivable route for India's public incorporation. 

He had spoken at the World Parliament for Religions in the years 1929 and 1937. 

Contribution: 

He is said to have formed more than 2000 tunes and his tunes and music are called 'Rabindranath Sangeet' with its own particular expressive and liquid style. 

He is liable for modernizing Bengali composition and verse. His outstanding works incorporate Gitanjali, Ghare-Baire, Gora, Manasi, Balaka, Sonar Tori, He is additionally associated with his melody 'Ekla Chalo Re'. 

He distributed his first sonnets matured 16 under the nom de plume 'Bhanusimha'. 

He not just gave the public songs of devotion for two nations, India and Bangladesh, yet in addition enlivened a Ceylonese understudy of his, to pen and make the public hymn out of Sri Lanka. 

Other than the entirety of his scholarly accomplishments he was likewise a thinker and educationist who in 1921 set up the Vishwa-Bharati University, a college that tested traditional instruction. 

Awards: 

In 1913 he was granted the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work on Gitanjali. 

He was the main non-European to get the Nobel Prize. 

In 1915 he was granted knighthood by the British King George V. In 1919, following the Jallianwalla Bagh slaughter he disavowed his Knighthood. 

Death: 

He died on seventh August 1941 in Calcutta.

The Prime Minister of India done paid tribute for Maharana Pratap on his Jayanti. 

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Description( about): 

Rana Pratap Singh otherwise called Maharana Pratap was brought into the world on ninth May 1540 in Kumbhalgarh, Rajasthan. 

He was the thirteenth King of Mewar and was the oldest child of Udai Singh II 

Maharana Udai Singh II administered the realm of Mewar, with his capital at Chittor. 

Udai Singh II was likewise an originator of the city of Udaipur (Rajasthan).

 

Battle of Haldighati: 

The Battle of Haldighati was battled in 1576 between Rana Pratap Singh of Mewar and Raja Man Singh of Amber who was the general of the Mughal head Akbar. 

Maharana Pratap battled a daring conflict, however was crushed by Mughal powers. 

It is said that Maharana Pratap's devoted pony named Chetak, surrendered his life as the Maharana was leaving the combat zone. 

Reconquest: 

After 1579, the Mughal pressure loose over Mewar and Pratap recuperated Western Mewar including Kumbhalgarh, Udaipur and Gogunda. 

During this period, he likewise fabricated another capital, Chavand, close to present day Dungarpur. 

Death: 

He died on nineteenth January, 1597. He was prevailing by his child Amar Singh, who submitted in 1614 to Emperor Jahāngīr, child of Akbar.