No Money for Terror” Conference

No Money for Terror” Conference

The 3rd Ministerial “No Money for Terror” (NMFT) Conference is set to be held on November 18 and 19, 2022 in New Delhi.
The major topics to be discussed at the 2022 NMFT Conference spanning four sessions are

Global trends in terrorism and terrorist ﬁnancing
Use of formal and informal channels for terrorism
Emerging technologies and terrorist ﬁnancing
International cooperation to address challenges in combating terrorist ﬁnancing.

About NMFT Conference

The Ministerial No Money for Terror (NMFT) Conference aims to create platform for international discussions on countering terror financing.
The conference includes discussions on technical, legal, regulatory and cooperative aspects of the terrorism financing. It aims to set pace for other high-level official and political discussions focusing on terror finance.
The inaugural edition of this conference was held in Paris, France, in 2018. The second edition of the NMFT took place in Melbourne, Australia, in 2019.
The third edition was set to take place in India in 2020 but was postponed because of COVID-19 pandemic that caused the global-level restrictions on travel.

Biggest iPhone manufacturing unit coming up near Hosur;

Telecom and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the biggest unit to manufacture Apple iPhone in India is coming up near Hosur in Bengaluru, which will employ around 60,000 people.
Apple has outsourced the manufacturing of iPhone enclosures to Tata Electronics, which has a plant at Hosur.
The company gets iPhones manufactured by electronics giants – Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron in India.

WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM)

On the sideline of G20 summit being held in Bali, Indonesia World Helath Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for collaborating with the world health body on hosting and building the global traditional health centre.
Prime Minister Modi, World Health Organisation Director-General Ghebreyesus and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth laid the foundation stone for the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM) in Gujarat’s Jamnagar city in April 2022.
The centre, supported by an investment of USD 250 million from India, aims at harnessing the potential of traditional medicine from across the world through modern science and technology to improve the health of people and the planet, according to the WHO.

Note

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as “the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness”

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