Recommendations of Jalan Committee accepted
The RBI board accepted the recommendations of the Bimal Jalan committee and has decided to transfer Rs 1,76,051 crore to the government. This is broken as Rs 1,23,414 crore as surplus for year 2018-19 and another Rs 52,637 crore of excess provisions identified by the committee as per the revised Economic Capital Framework (ECF).
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#ECF #RBI #ADF #CGRA #BimalJalan #budget #Recommendations

Humanoid robot docks with ISS
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a humanoid robot docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on 27 August 2019. The FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) robot is on a planned mission to support the crew and test its skills. It will stay on the station until Sept. 7.
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#Humanoid #robot #ISS #spacecraft #FEDOR #Robonaut2 #NASA

Multiple craters on Moon
Isro released the lunar surface images captured by the Terrain Mapping Camera 2 (TMC-2) on August 23 from an altitude of 4,375km. One set of images show impact craters such as Jackson, Mitra, Mach and Korolev.
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#Moon #TMC2 #Isro #Korolev #Jackson #Chandrayaan2 #Mitra

India’s first woman DGP passed away
Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, India’s first woman Director General of Police (DGP), passed away following an illness in Mumbai on 26 August 2019 night.
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#India #DGP #woman #KiranBedi #IPS #Bhattacharya #KanchanChaudhary

India in G-7 summit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted India’s efforts towards eliminating single-use plastic, conserving water, harnessing solar energy and, protecting flora and fauna for a sustainable future during his address at the G-7 session on environment in Biarritz.
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#India #G7 #NarendraModi #UNESCO #COP21 #Biodiversity

Russia accepts Paris climate accord
Russia said it would implement the 2015 Paris Agreement to fight climate change after Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a government resolution signifying Moscow’s final acceptance of the deal.
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#Paris #DmitryMedvedev #COP21 #UNFCCC #climateaccord #Russia

Google wins ‘right to be forgotten’ fight
Google won its fight against tougher “right to be forgotten” rules after Europe’s top court said on 24 September 2019 it does not have to remove links to sensitive personal data worldwide, rejecting a French demand.
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#Googlewins #forgotten #ECJ #GDPR #BNSrikrishna #CNIL

Exercise Tiger Triumph
India and the United States are set to hold their first tri-services exercise codenamed Tiger Triumph at Visakhapatnam and Kakinada in November this year. India-US tri-services 'Exercise Tiger Triumph' is being organised under the aegis of the headquarters of the Integrated Defence Staff.
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#ExerciseTigerTriumph #India #UnitedStates #HADR #FPC #IndianArmy

New frog named after Greek goddess
A team of scientists from Delhi University and the Zoological Survey of India have discovered a new species of rice frog or chorus frog in Arunachal Pradesh.
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#frog #Greekgoddess #microhylaeos #RaniJheel #ArunachalPradesh

India pulls out of RCEP pact
India on 4 November 2019 pulled out of the 16-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, capping six years of talks to clinch the world’s biggest free-trade deal in the face of stiff resistance from domestic industries and political circles and reluctance of partners like China to grant it meaningful concessions despite hard negotiations in recent weeks.
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#RCEP #India #Bangkok #ArvindPanagariya #NItiAayog #ASEAN #FTAs

US formally moves to exit the Paris Agreement
The United States formally notified the United Nations on 4 November 2019 that it was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Today the United States began the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, said US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.
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#US #Paris #Agreement #KyotoProtocol #COP21

Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative
The United States formally notified the United Nations on 4 November 2019 that it was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Today the United States began the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, said US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.
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#IPOI #NarendraModi #ASEAN #EAS #USA #EastAsia

Clues to cosmic shoreline
Scientists have decoded the signals sent by NASA’s Voyager 2 from about 11 billion miles away from interstellar space, which will help scientists paint a clearer picture of cosmic shoreline, where the heliosphere ends and interstellar space begins.
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#NatureAstronomy #MilkyWaygalaxy #spacecraft #Voyager2 #NASA

K-4 nuclear missile
To further strengthen its capabilities of hitting enemy targets from submarines, India is planning to test-fire the 3,500 kilometre strike-range K-4 nuclear missile from an underwater platform off the coast of Andhra Pradesh on 8 November 2019.
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#K4 #nuclear #missile #AndhraPradesh #DRDO #NOTAM

CRS report on Afghanistan
Pakistan has played an active but negative role in Afghan affairs for decades, and Pakistan's security establishment, fearful of strategic encirclement by India, continues to view the Afghan Taliban as "a relatively friendly and reliably anti-India element in Afghanistan" says a US Congressional report.
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#CRS #Afghanistan #ANDSF #AfghanTaliban #HaqqaniNetwork

Panel to take up WhatsApp snooping case
A parliamentary standing committee headed by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor will take up the WhatsApp snooping case in its next meeting on November 20, sources said on 6 November 2019.
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#WhatsApp #CLST #graveconcern #SMSs #Facebook

Singapore, UAE to bank on India for money
India’s digital payment backbone UPI, which has awed some of the biggest tech companies in the world such as Google and Oracle, may soon power Singapore and UAE. Unified Payments Interface (UPI) may soon be available in Singapore and UAE as NPCI looks to expand globally.
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#Singapore #UAE #NPCI #UPI #Singapore #money

China, France reaffirm support of Paris climate agreement
French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping on 6 November 2019 issued a joint statement reaffirming their strong support for the “irreversible” Paris Agreement on climate change, from which the U.S. announced its exit this week.
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#G20 #COP21 #XiJinping #FPEM #EmmanuelMacron #FrenchPresident

Sudan's first ever satellite
Sudan's first ever satellite for conducting research in military, economic and space technology has been launched by China, the northeast African country's ruling body said on November 5.
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#Sudan #satellite #ISRA #CSP #military