Explanation:

Background
Non-alignment was a policy fashioned during the Cold War, to retain the autonomy of policy between two politico-military blocs.
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) provided a platform for newly independent developing nations to join together to protect this autonomy.
NAM campaigned for de-colonisation, universal nuclear disarmament and against apartheid.
After the end of the Cold War, the NAM countries were able to diversify their network of relationships across the erstwhile east-west divide.
Non-alignment and India’s foreign policy in the present context
For a few years now, non-alignment has not been projected by our policymakers as a tenet of India’s foreign policy.
India has not yet found a universally accepted alternative to the non-alignment yet.
“Strategic autonomy” as an alternative soon acquired a connotation similar to non-alignment, with an anti-U.S. tint.
Multi-alignment has not found universal favour, since it may convey the impression of opportunism, whereas we seek strategic convergences.
Seeking issue-based partnerships or coalitions is a description that has not stuck.
“Advancing prosperity and influence” was a description External Affairs minister settled for, to describe the aspirations that our network of international partnerships seeks to further.

Explanation:

GIRG Exercise
Global MPI is part of GoI’s decision to monitor the performance of the country in 29 select Global Indices.
The objective of the exercise is to fulfil the need to measure and monitor India’s performance on various important social and economic parameters.
It would enable the utilization of these Indices as tools for self-improvement; bring about reforms in policies, while improving last-mile implementation of government schemes.
As the Nodal agency for the MPI, NITI Aayog has constituted a Multidimensional Poverty Index Coordination Committee (MPICC).
About Global MPI
Global MPI is an international measure of multidimensional poverty covering 107 developing countries.
It was first developed in 2010 by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) for UNDP’s Human Development Reports.
It is computed by scoring each surveyed household on 10 parameters based on -nutrition, child mortality, and years of schooling, school attendance, cooking fuel, sanitation, drinking water, electricity, housing and household assets.
It utilizes the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) which is conducted under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS).

Explanation:

What is Global MPI?

Global MPI is an international measure of multidimensional poverty covering 107 developing countries and was first developed in 2010 by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for UNDP’s Human Development Reports.
The Global MPI is released at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development of the United Nations in July, every year.
Global MPI is computed by scoring each surveyed household on 10 parameters based on – nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling, school attendance, cooking fuel, sanitation, drinking water, electricity, housing and household assets.
It utilises the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) which is conducted under the aegis of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS).

Explanation:

National Intellectual Property Rights Policy
The government recently released the National IPR policy to promote the IP regime. The policy will encourage creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in India. It will check the theft of one person’s innovation by another. This is India’s first IPR policy.

About the Policy:

‘Creative India, Innovative India’ is the tagline of the policy. This is to incentivize entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation and curb manufacturing and sale of counterfeits. It promotes an India where
creativity and innovation are stimulated by Intellectual Property for the benefit of everyone;
intellectual-property promotes advancement in S&T, arts and culture, traditional knowledge and biodiversity resources;
knowledge is the main driver of development, and knowledge owned is transformed into knowledge shared.
Objective:

There are seven major objectives:

IPR, awareness, outreach, and promotion
Create an atmosphere of inventibility and innovation
Replace existing outdated laws
Human Capital Development for teaching, research and skill building in Intellectual Property Rights
Administration and management of innovation
Commercialization of IPRs
To combating IPR infringements by reinforcing the enforcement and adjudicatory mechanisms

Explantion:

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is holding public consultations for the preparation of the Master Plan for Delhi 2041 with special focus on water bodies and the land.

What is Green-Blue infrastructure?

‘Blue’ infrastructure refers to water bodies like rivers, canals, ponds, wetlands, floodplains, and water treatment facilities; while ‘Green’ stands for trees, lawns, hedgerows, parks, fields, and forests.
The concept refers to urban planning where water bodies and land are interdependent, and grow with the help of each other while offering environmental and social benefits.
How does DDA plan to go ahead with it?
In the first stage, the DDA plans to deal with the multiplicity of agencies, which because of the special nature of the state, has plagued it for several years.
DDA wants the first map out the issues of jurisdiction, work being done by different agencies on drains and the areas around them.
Thereafter, a comprehensive policy will be drawn up, which would then act as the common direction for all agencies.
Why such a policy?
Delhi has around 50 big drains (blue areas) managed by different agencies, and due to their poor condition and encroachment, the land around (green areas) has also been affected.
DDA, along with other agencies, will integrate them and remove all sources of pollution by checking the outfall of untreated wastewater as well as the removal of existing pollutants.
A mix of mechanized and natural systems may be adopted, and dumping of solid wastes in any of these sites will be strictly prohibited by local bodies, through the imposition of penalties.
Major features
The land around these drains, carrying stormwater, will be declared as special buffer projects.
The network of connected green spaces would be developed in the form of green mobility circuits of pedestrian and cycling paths.
It will be developed along the drains to serve functional as well as leisure trips.