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India and Germany sign 17 MoUs
Seventeen agreements have been signed between India and Germany in the fields of agriculture, maritime technology, ayurveda and yoga among others, the external affairs ministry said.
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#Germanysign #17MoUs #India #DFB #IGC

Chandrayaan-2 detects Argon-40
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on 31 October 2019 said that the Chandra’s Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2) payload on Chandrayaan-2 has detected Argon-40 (40Ar) from the lunar exosphere.
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#Chandrayaan2 #Argon40 #Isro #CHACE2 #noblegas

India loses export incentive case
India suffered a setback at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in a dispute against the US that had challenged its key export subsidy schemes including the one for special economic zones.
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#case #WTO #SCM #MEIS #WorldTradeOrganization


Pegasus spyware
In May 2019, WhatsApp identified that a bug in the app’s call function was used to install a malicious code into users’ phones.
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#Pegasusspyware #WhatsApp #appscallfunction #NSO

How the Big Bang may have happened decoded
The universe began with the Big Bang, and now scientists have explained how the mysterious explosion may have taken place around 13.8 billion years ago.
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#BigBang #mysterious #scientists #KareemAhmed #US
Government withdraws draft bill of Forest Act
After widespread criticism from tribal communities across states, the government on 15 November 2019 announced that it has decided to withdraw a contentious draft bill to amend the Indian Forests Act, 1927.
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#IndianForestAct #ST #IFA #MoEF&CC #PrakashJavadekar #zerodraft

Drinking water quality standards
Mumbai is the only city whose tap water meets piped drinking water quality standards set by the Bureau of Indian Standards, according to a study of 21 capital cities released on 16 November 2019.
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#Drinkingwater #Bureau #JalJeevanMission #SwachhBharatKosh #BIS

Bat for India's entry into RCEP
Australia and New Zealand continue to push for India’s inclusion in the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) pact, weeks after New Delhi pulled out of it.
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#RCEP #India #NewZealand #IndiasBusinessDownUnder #Australia

Govt scraps NSO's consumer expenditure survey
The government has decided to scrap the National Statistical Office’s (NSO’s) consumer expenditure survey conducted in 2017-18 over “data quality”.
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#NSO #dataquality #MPCE #Govtscraps #expenditure

India joins to oppose spectrum band for 5G
India is learnt to have aligned with China, Russia and Japan to oppose the use of 26 Ghz spectrum band for 5G operations, but industry bodies have expressed their reservations about the decision.
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#ISRO #5G #India #26Ghz #WRC #GSA #ITU #China
Rural India open defecation free
The latest official survey conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) showed that more than one-fourth households in villages had no access to toilets.
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#ODF #RuralIndia #NSO #DrinkingWater #SwachhBharatMission #NarendraModi

NSO Report on drinking water
As many as 94.5 per cent families in rural areas and 97.5 per cent in cities used ‘improved drinking water’ from sources including tube wells, tankers and piped supply during July-December 2018, showed a National Statistical Office (NSO) survey report.
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#NSO #drinkingwater #NSS #households #NationalStatisticalOffice #LPG

Survey of Persons with Disabilities
Overall percentage of persons with disability in the population was 2.2 per cent during July 2018 to December 2018 in the country, showed a National Statistical Office (NSO) survey report on 23 November 2019.
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#Disabilities #NSS #NSO #SurveyofPersons #LFPR

Geo-strategic reach of PSEs
To enhance their geo-strategic reach, India's public sector enterprises should bid for international projects as a consortium, work with the government to design WTO-smart subsidies and enhance exports, according to a report.
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#PSEs #GeoStrategic #CII #WTO #CLMV #ChandrajitBanerjee