{"id":105027,"date":"2020-12-08T12:08:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T12:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=105027"},"modified":"2020-12-08T14:08:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:08:15","slug":"global-terrorism-index-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/global-terrorism-index-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Terrorism Index 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statements:<br>(1) Global Terrorism Index 2020 ranks Afghanistan as the most terrorism impacted country.<br>(2) India has been ranked 8th in the Global Terrorism Index 2020.<br>Of the above correct statement\/s is\/are:<\/strong><br>(a) Only 1<br>(b) Only 2<br>(c) Both 1&amp;2<br>(d) None of the above<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Global Terrorism Index 2020 has been published.<\/li><li>It is issued annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP),Sydney(Australia) to measure the impact of terrorism on the countries.<\/li><li>It took 163 countries, 99.7 per cent of the world\u2019s population in its study.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Index 2020:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Afghanistan with GTI score of 9.592 is impacted most by terrorism. It is followed by Iraq, Nigeria, Syria and Somalia under top 5.<\/li><li>India with a GTI score of 7.353 is the 8th most impacted country by terrorism. Its neighbor Pakistan has been adjudged 7th rank.<\/li><li>Uzbekistan is the least affected country on 134th rank. Qatar is on 133rd position.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>World facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 2019, deaths from terrorism fell for the fifth consecutive year, after peaking in 2014. The total number of deaths fell by 15.5 per cent to 13,826.<\/li><li>South Asia remains the region most impacted by terrorism in 2019.<\/li><li>The largest increase in deaths from terrorism occurred in Burkina Faso, where deaths rose from 86 to 593, a 590 per cent increase.<\/li><li>The four terrorist groups responsible for the most deaths in 2019 were the Taliban, Boko Haram, ISIL and Al-Shabaab.<\/li><li>The Taliban were the deadliest terrorist group for the second consecutive year.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>India in the Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India has been ranked 8th recording 558 terrorist attacks and 277 deaths from terrorism in 2019.<\/li><li>Jammu and Kashmir remained the region most impacted by terrorism in 2019, with 165 attacks, resulting in 103 deaths, most of which were perpetrated by Islamist groups.<\/li><li>The second most impacted region was Chhattisgarh, in the centre of the red corridor. Chhattisgarh suffered 85 attacks in 2019, resulting in 53 deaths, all from Maoist extremists.<\/li><li>In 2019, Maoists, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) were responsible for over two thirds of the total deaths and almost half of the total attacks.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By-Amar Mani Upadhyay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visionofhumanity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GTI-2020-web-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.visionofhumanity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GTI-2020-web-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statements:(1) Global Terrorism Index 2020 ranks Afghanistan as the most terrorism impacted country.(2) India has been ranked 8th in the Global Terrorism Index 2020.Of the above correct statement\/s is\/are:(a) Only 1(b) Only 2(c) Both 1&amp;2(d) None of the aboveAnswer: (c)Related facts: Global Terrorism Index 2020 has been published. 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