Daily Current Affairs – 13-04-2024

General/Other

Share of Religious

Minorities (1950-2015)

The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) has recently published working paper on the share of religious minorities in 167 countries, including India. The paper strikingly claimed that for India, while the share in population of Muslims increased by 43.15% in this period, the share in population of Hindus decreased by 7.82%. In 1950, Hindus’ share in population was 84.68%, coming down to 78.06% in 2015. Similarly, Muslims’ share in population had risen from 9.84% to 14.09%. The paper has concluded that Hindus’ share declined by 7.82%, Christians’ rose by 5.38%, Sikhs went up by 6.58%, and that of Parsis went down by 85%. The 2011 Census had counted 96.63 crore Hindus — 79.8% of the population and 17.22 crore Muslims — 14.2% of the population in the country at the time.

Shaksgam valley

India said on Thursday that it had lodged a strong complaint with China over construction work in the Shaksgam valley, which it described as an “illegal” effort to change the situation on the ground. Shaksgam valley is a strategically situated region which is now part of Pakistan occupied Kashmir ( PoK ). The Shaksgam valley, or the Trans Karakoram Tract, is part of the Hunza-Gilgit Region of PoK .