📚 CURRENT AFFAIRS | 24 AUGUST 2026
📌 Source : PIB
🔹 UNCCD COP17
• Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav participated in a side event at the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, UNCCD COP17, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
• India has committed to restoring 26 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2030 under the Bonn Challenge.
• India restored 21.76 million hectares during 2011 to 2020, generating around 1.22 billion person days of employment.
🔹 3rd India Cambodia Joint Working Group on Trade and Investment
• The third meeting of the India Cambodia Joint Working Group on Trade and Investment, JWGTI, was held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
• The mechanism focuses on strengthening bilateral trade, investment and economic cooperation between India and Cambodia.
🔹 Envoys of Six Nations Present Credentials to President
• President Droupadi Murmu accepted credentials from newly appointed envoys of six countries at Rashtrapati Bhavan:
• Sitona Abdalla Osman: South Sudan
• Abdulla Saif Ali Slayem Al Nuaimi: United Arab Emirates
• Muhammad Saidu Dahiru: Nigeria
• Inga Ionesii: Moldova
• Dr. Jasper Wieck: Germany
• Petra Menander: Sweden.
🔹 India’s Land Restoration Progress
• India restored 21.76 million hectares of land between 2011 and 2020.
• The restoration generated approximately 1.22 billion person days of employment.
• India is now preparing its next restoration progress assessment for 2021 to 2025 in collaboration with the ICFRE Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Land Management and IUCN.
🔹 Gems of India
• Ministry of Information and Broadcasting launched the pilot of Gems of India, an initiative to identify and promote digital creators and unique stories from every district.
• It is being implemented through Prasar Bharati’s MyWAVES section on the WAVES OTT platform.
• Pilot regions include Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Goa and Ladakh.
• National level winning entries can receive prizes of up to ₹5 lakh.
🔹 Upgraded Dak MITRA and Dak Sewa Apps
• India Post launched upgraded Dak MITRA and Dak Sewa applications and inaugurated 14 renovated Post Offices.
• Dak MITRA, expanded as Mobile Interface for Transactions & Rural Assistance, serves more than 1.4 lakh Branch Post Offices and supports paperless postal and financial transactions.
• Dak Sewa provides 24x7 access to services including tracking, booking, complaints and Post Office/PIN code locators.
• Dak Sewa supports 23 Indian languages through BHASHINI.
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