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Items identified for high export potential
A study has identified 31 products such as women’s apparel, drugs, and cyclic hydrocarbons that have high export potential and can make India a top exporter of these products, industry body CII said on 21 July 2019.
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#India #CII #women #infrastructure #Entrepreneurial #potential

Material help to make Mars habitable
Regions of Mars could be made habitable with a material — silica aerogel — that mimics Earth’s atmospheric greenhouse effect, according to a study by NASA and Harvard researchers. People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans.
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#Mars #Earth #NASA #habitable #SEAS #CO2 #RegionsofMars

'Metrolite' train for small cities
The Centre has proposed light urban rail transit system - 'Metrolite' - in small cities and towns having lower projection of ridership, with each train having three coaches and a restricted speed of 25 kmph.
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#Metrolite #MoHUA #PPHPD #LRT #train #India #MetroRailPolicy

Girls migrating for education rising
Many more girls are moving out of their states in search of education than in the past and the pace at which this is changing is most rapid in the states generally viewed as backward. This heartening trend emerges from just-released census 2011 data.
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#Girls #Odisha #education #India #census2011 #UttarPradesh
BVRAAM ready for IAF fighters
India's first indigenous beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) for fighters, Astra, is now finally ready for induction after 15 tortuous years of development, with the DRDO expecting the IAF to initially order at least 200 missiles for its Sukhoi-30MKI jets.
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#BVRAAM #IAF #DRDO #India #ECCM #IAF #ukhoi30MKI

Starship’s plans unveiled
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled a prototype design of its next-generation Starship spacecraft that will take people or cargo to the moon, Mars or other destinations in space or around Earth.
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#Starship #CEO #SpaceX #BFR #ITS #spacecraft #multiplanetary

Working group for new industrial policy
The Centre will soon constitute a working group on the proposed new industrial policy which is aimed at promoting emerging sectors, reducing regulatory hurdles and making India a manufacturing hub, an official has said.
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#industrialpolicy #DPIIT #MSME #NMP #CII #UnionCabinet

BDC elections on October 24
In a first test to the prevailing security situation in Jammu-Kashmir, the state’s Chief Electoral Officer announced that elections for the Block Development Council (BDC) will be held on October 24.
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#BDC #PanchayatRaj #BDC #Article370 #ShailendraKumar #PCOs
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
Plans to amend IBC 2016
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India chairman M S Sahoo on 30 November 2019 said work is on to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 that will address cross-border insolvency.
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#IBC #MSSahoo #CII #DewanHousingFinance #GreenChannel


'Point of no return' on climate change
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said 1 December 2019 that the world's efforts to stop climate change have been "utterly inadequate" so far and there is a danger global warming could pass the "point of no return."
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#COP25 #UNchief #UNSecretary #UNFCCC

Satellite mechanism to monitor forestation
A satellite-based mechanism to monitor areas under green cover and the growth of saplings planted there is being developed by the government, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said.
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#Satellitemechanism #monitorforestation #PrakashJavadekar

Concrete action against terror infrastructure
In their inaugural foreign and defence ministerial dialogue, India and Japan deliberated on the threat posed to regional peace by terror networks operating from Pakistan and asked it to take "resolute and irreversible" against them.
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#FATF #RajnathSingh #TaroKono #NarendraModi
Parliament passes amendments to IBC
Parliament on 12 March 2020 passed amendments to the insolvency law that will help ring-fence successful bidders of insolvent companies from risk of criminal proceedings for offences committed by previous promoters.
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#IBC #Amendment #NCLT #LokSabha #NirmalaSitharaman

Best bet to beat corona
NEW DELHI: With countries looking at lockdown mode to curb the spread of coronavirus that has reached almost every continent, here’s the lowdown on how viruses self-assemble into a functional active menace, and how they can be tackled with something as simple as soap.
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#corona #NEWDELHI #RNA #Covid19 #coronavirus

Influential women in sports
Nita Ambani, the owner of Mumbai Indians cricket team franchise, has been named in the list of the 10 most influential women in sports for 2020 alongside the likes of tennis superstar Serena Williams and gymnast Simone Biles.
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#Influential #women #ICC #SreeVarma #NitaAmbani

Unspent under MPLAD scheme
A cumulative amount of Rs 5,275.24 crore remained unspent under Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme as on March 4, 2020, Parliament was informed on 11 March 2020.
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#MPLAD #LokSabha #RaoInderjitSingh #MPs

Leh to host International Yoga Day
Leh, the capital of the Union territory of Ladakh will be the venue for the main event for International Yoga Day on June 21 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend it, AYUSH Ministry officials said.
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#InternationalYogaDay #FICCI #NDMC #CII #NarendraModi