Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit
Prime Minister has inaugurated the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit at Bharat Mandapam.
- A 29-member multi-stakeholder initiative launched in 2020
- Aim – To bridge the gap between theory and practice on AI by supporting cutting-edge research and applied activities on AI-related priorities.
- A shared commitment to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence.
- India – Founding member of GPAI (lead chair of GPAI in 2024)
- 3 previous GPAI summits – Montreal, Paris and Tokyo
FAO Report on Food Security
Report titled Asia and the Pacific – Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023: Statistics and Trends released.
- 74.1% of Indians were unable to afford a healthy diet in 2021.
- 16.6% of the India’s population is undernourished.
- 31.7% & 18.7% of children of the country under five years of age suffered with stunting and wasting respectively.
- 53% of the country’s women aged between 15 to 49 had anaemia in 2019.
National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited (NARCL)
Government informed that 10 Public Sector Banks transferred Non-Performing Assets (NPA) of over Rs 11,617 crore to NARCL between January and November this year.
- Registered with the Reserve Bank of India.
- An Asset Reconstruction Company under SARFAESI Act, 2002.
- It was established to clean up the legacy stressed assets with an exposure of ₹500 crores and above in Indian Banking system.
- To acquire these through 15% Cash and 85% in Security Receipts.