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19 Dec, 2023
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India’s Uma Sekhar was elected to governing council of the Rome-based UNIDROIT.
The achievement becomes even more remarkable as candidates from Russia, the USA and China failed to win any positions on the governing council.
Activist Ali Abu Awwad and pianist Daniel Barenboim win Indira Gandhi Peace Prize.
The Prize
Barenboim
Awwad
The 75 countries eligible to borrow from the World Bank’s International Development Association, which supports the poorest countries in 2022.
“A Bond is a fixed income instrument that represents a loan made by an investor to a borrower.” In simpler words, bond acts as a contract between the investor and the borrower. Mostly companies and government issue bonds and investors buy those bonds as a savings and security option.
These bonds have a maturity date and when once that is attained, the issuing company needs to pay back the amount to the investor along with a part of the profit. This kind of dealing with bonds between the issuer and the investor is done by brokers.
What are Government Bonds?
A bond issued by the Government of a country at a fixed rate of interest is called Government Bonds. These kinds of bonds are considered to be low-risk investments. Examples of Government bonds include Treasury Bills, Municipal Bonds, Zero-coupon Bonds, etc.
Features of a Bond for Investor
When an Investor is buying bonds, there are a few things which may be given consideration before investing in them. Given below are such important points to remember while investing in any bond:
Different Types of Bonds
There are various types of Bonds. A few of them have been discussed below in brief.
Unnati ZCZP Bonds
Social stock exchange sees 1st listing with Unnati Foundation 1st entity in December 2023.
What are Social Stock Exchanges (SSE)?
What is a ZCZP instruments?
Debt Security (Bond) |
ZCZP instrument |
It is like a loan. |
It is not a loan but a donation. |
It makes interest payments and the principal when the bond matures. |
It doesn’t makes interest payments and the principal on maturity. |
What is Unnati ZCZP Bonds?
Unnati ZCZP bond is the 1st such listing on SSE segment in India.
What are the benefits of these ZCZP instruments?
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The 14-day festival commemorates the death anniversary of saint Abdul Qadir and attracts followers from different faiths across the world.
The mission is expected to launch in 4 years.
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Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) have identified that peptides (short protein) produced from Budgett’s frog can combat enzymes of disease causing pathogens. Other common names are Hippo Frog and the Freddie Kruger Frog. Scientific name 
India’s fastest solar-electric boat Barracuda sets sail for sustainable future. The solar-electric boat is named after the swift, long fish, Barracuda. The boat can be deployed even in the rough seas as a workboat to ferry up to 12 passengers and cargo. Engineered to navigate through
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Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear power station with a current installed capacity of 2GW in India. It is situated in Kudankulam, Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. It is a Civilian Nuclear Power Plant, built by India in joint-collaboration with Russia. It i
Professor Savita Ladage received the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Nyholm Prize recently. It is an annual award from the Royal Society of Chemistry that recognizes achievements in chemical sciences education. The prize honors the life and work of Sir Ronald Nyholm, an Australia
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations launched the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023: Statistics and Trends report. The FAO report is a glimpse on the progress in meeting Sustainable Development Goals and World Health Assembly (WHA) global nutrit
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The Indian government has ordered a probe into an allegation that poor Myanmarese villagers were being lured into giving their kidneys to rich patients. Regulated by– Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994. A transplant can be either From organs of dec
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Union Minister of State for Defence flagged in a team of Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling that carried out ‘Mission Antarctica’ in New Delhi Recently. The team hoisted the national flag atop Mt Rhenock in Sikkim Himalayas, recorded in the Asia Book of Records and India
It is an initiative of the Department of Justice, launched in April 2017. It aimed at enhancing "access to justice" for marginalised sections of the society and the state's constitutional obligation of providing "free legal aid" for all. Pro bono is a Latin phr
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