New Delhi Declaration of Cop14
Identifying land degradation as a serious global threat, over 190 countries agreed to achieve ‘land degradation neutrality’ by 2030 through a “national target for action” and vowed to ensure that the efforts in this direction do not affect land tenure rights of local population, including forest dwellers and women, anywhere in the world.
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#NewDelhiDeclaration #COP14 #UNCCD #PrakashJavadekar #NDD

Measures to boost exports and home buyers
In another round of economic boosters, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 14 September 2019 announced measures related to exports and home buyers.
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#NirmalaSitharaman #NCLT #NPA #GST #MEIS #boostexports

Hindi Diwas 2019
Every year on 14 September, the nation celebrate Hindi Diwas, which marks the significance of the day when the Constituent Assembly after Independence adopted Hindi as the official language of India.
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#HindiDiwas2019 #Devanagri #Independence #WorldMost #SpokenLanuages #WMSL

ISRO’s Aditya-L1
For the scientific community, Sun has forever generated an enigmatic interest as it is our closest Star (at the center of our Solar System), and has been the key to life on Earth, and continues to play a crucial role in Earth’s circadian and annual cycles.
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#ISRO #Aditya #L1 #CME #PSLVXL #satellite #USO

India in Global Economic Freedom index
India has jumped 11 spots on Global Economic Freedom index from last year’s 96th spot to the current ranking of 79.
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#India #Freedomindex #GlobalEconomic #HongKong #WorldReport

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

UN warning over climate crisis
The world's major fossil fuel producers are set to bust global environmental goals with excessive coal, oil and gas extraction in the next decade, the United Nations and research groups said on 20 November 2019 in the latest warning over climate crisis.
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#UN #UNEP #CICERO #gas #crisis #SEI #emissionsgap

Trilateral maritime exercise
Defence minister Rajnath Singh held wide-ranging talks with his Singapore counterpart Ng Eng Hen in Singapore on 20 November 2019 during which the two sides agreed to conduct the trilateral maritime exercise involving Singapore, India and Thailand annually from next year.
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#Trilateral #RajnathSingh #SITMEX #HADR #DMD

New forest policy on anvil
More than 30 years after it was last launched, a new national forest policy that would deal with issues such as climate change and human-wildlife conflict is now on the anvil.
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#Newforestpolicy #anvil #ICFRE #Dehradun #SureshGairola

India appeals WTO Appellate body
India on 19 November 2019 appealed against a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel's ruling that had recommended withdrawal of its key export subsidy schemes, including the one for special economic zones in the next 90-180 days.
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#India #WTO #Appellatebody #SCM #GNI #EOU #MEIS

Extraterrestrial sugar found in space rocks
In a first, an international team has found sugars essential to life in meteorites - supporting the hypothesis that chemical reactions in asteroids can make some of life's ingredients.
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#NASA #Extraterrestrial #DNA #RNA #OSIRIS #Hayabusa2

PETA India's 2019 Person of the Year
Team India skipper Virat Kohli has been named People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India's Person of the Year for 2019.
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#PETA #India #ViratKohli #AmerFort #PCAA #KSPanickerRadhakrishnan

DTVSV Bill approved
Parliament on 13 March 2020 approved a bill that will provide an opportunity to taxpayers to settle their tax disputes by paying just due taxes with complete waiver of interest and penalty by March 31.
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#DTVSV #LokSabha #ITAT #WTA #Appeals

New POCSO rules notified
The Union government has notified the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Rules, 2020 which enables implementation of recent amendments to the Act under which provisions of punishment for child abuse has been made more stringent.
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#POCSO #SJPU #pornography #Sexual

Govt revokes PSA
The J&K administration on 13 March 2020 released National Conference (NC) president and Member of Parliament, Srinagar, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, who was in detention over seven months.
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#PSA #OmarAbdullah #NC #PublicSafetyAct

RoDTEP scheme approved
Union Cabinet on 13 March 2020 approved the Remission of Duties or Taxes on Export Products (RoDTEP), a scheme for exporters to reimburse taxes and duties paid by them such as value added tax, coal cess, mandi tax, electricity duties and fuel used for transportation, which are not getting exempted or refunded under any other existing mechanism.
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#RoDTEP #MEIS #NirmalaSitharaman #PiyushGoyal

WTO-compliant remission of tax scheme
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 13 March 2020 approved a World Trade Organisation (WTO)-compliant scheme for reimbursement of taxes and duties to exporters.
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#WTO #taxscheme #GST #RoDTEP #MEIS

Guidelines for Ind AS
The Reserve Bank on 13 March 2020 came out with regulatory guidelines for implementation of Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) by non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) while preparing their financial results.
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#Guidelines #IndAS #NBFCs #ARCs #ACB

Centre declares coronavirus as 'notified disaster'
In the wake of spurt in cases of coronavirus pandemic in the country, the Ministry of Home Affairs on 14 March 2020 decided to treat Covid-19 as a "notified disaster".
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#coronavirus #notifieddisaster #SDRF #WHO

Community transmission of Covid-19
To rule out community transmission of Covid-19, over a thousand samples of influenza- or pneumonia-like illnesses, taken from patients without any travel history or contact with infected persons, would now also be tested for coronavirus every week.
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#Communitytransmission #Covid19 #DHR-ICMR #coronavirus

Syrian children in need due to war: UN
The UN children’s organization UNICEF issued a plea on 13 March 2020 to support Syrian children as the war in Syria nears the start of its 10th year. A child dies every 10 hours as a result of the war, the organization said.
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#UN #war #UNICEF #Syrianchildren #BasharAssad