India, Saudi ink several pacts
India and Saudi Arabia inked over a dozen agreements in several key sectors including oil and gas, defence and civil aviation to bolster their ties as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held extensive talks with the Kingdom's top leadership during which a Strategic Partnership Council was established to coordinate on important issues.
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#India #NarendraModi #ISPRL #SaudiArabia #MasterCard

Miyawaki method for tree planting
West Bengal government's panchayat & rural development department has decided to create forests across the state using the Miyawaki method, a Japanese method of tree planting that helps in building dense, native forests.
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#Miyawaki #blackberry #Shibganj #ShyampurI

Hygiea in solar system
Space scientists have discovered a new celestial body which might be the smallest such planet to exist in our solar system.
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#Hygiea #ESO #IAU #SPHERE #solarsystem #Mars

'severe’ Air quality
Pollution levels continued to be in the ‘severe’ category on 30 October 2019 as a blanket of smog wrapped Delhi. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, the air quantity index was 416 at 11 a.m.
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#severe #Airquality #AQI #CPCB #NAMP #Protection

Delhi under NSA
Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor has passed an order authorizing the city’s police, controlled by the Union home ministry, to place the national capital under the National Security Act (NSA).
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#DelhiPolice #NSA #NCRB #CrPC #FIRs #BJP #Article370

Key molecule for life’s origin
Researchers have unravelled a key piece of the puzzle about the origin of life on the Earth with the discovery of how phosphorus-bearing molecules, essential for cell metabolism, may have reached the planet from space.
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#ALMA #ESO #ROSINA #AFGL5142 #molecule #spacecraft

China and Myanmar 'stand together'
China and Myanmar inked dozens of mammoth infrastructure and trade deals after a meeting on 18 January 2020 between President Xi Jinping and fallen rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw (Myanmar), as Beijing doubles down on its support for a government under fire for its treatment of Rohingya Muslims.
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#Myanmar #standtogether #Muslim #XiJinping #China

Davos diplomacy between India, Malaysia
Trade ministers from India and Malaysia are likely to meet on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos next week amid a palm oil spat between the two countries, a Malaysian government told.
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#Malaysia #MahathirMohamad #Goyal #WEF #oil

AI-aided method for reading of legal judgements
Researchers at IIT Kharagpur have evolved an artificial intelligence-aided method to automate reading of legal judgements.
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#IITKharagpur #KGP #SupremeCourt #USA #RajivGandhi

Space Butterfly
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced in a statement that its Very Large Telescope (VLT) had captured a stunning and rare celestial event.
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#SpaceButterfly #ESO #VeryLargeTelescope #flyingbutterfly