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ernational Space Station. The Soyuz capsule with astronauts from Canada, Russia and the United States landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 8-47 a.m. (0247GMT), less than a minute ahead of the scheduled time, on 25 June 2019 after a 3 hour flight from the orbiting lab.
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#Astronauts #Earth #DavidSaint #spacecraft #Canada

Baseline analysis of 2nd SDG
Almost one in three Indian children under five years will still be stunted by 2022 going by current trends, according to an analysis of the country’s food and nutrition security released on 25 June 2019. Over the last decade, child stunting — which is a measure of chronic malnutrition — has reduced at a rate of about 1% per year, the slowest decline among emerging economies.
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#SDG #Baseline #Indian #Indianchildren #hunger #Foodgrain

Seven Zonal Cultural Centres
To protect, promote & preserve various forms of folk art and culture throughout the country including Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand & Odisha, the Government of India has set up seven Zonal Cultural Centres (ZCCs) with headquarters at Patiala, Nagpur, Udaipur, Prayagraj, Kolkata, Dimapur and Thanjavur. These ZCCs organize various cultural activities & programmes on regular basis all over the country.
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#ZCCs #RSMs #EZCC #SCZCC #Odisha #folkart #LokKalaDarshan

India-Pakistan clash over Nizam
A decades-old legal dispute between India and Pakistan over around £35 million belonging to the Nizam of Hyderabad at the time of Partition and deposited in a London bank account has reached an important stage in the U.K. High Court.
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#Nizam #Pakistan #NatWestBank #India #MuffakhamJah #RoyalCourts
Niti’s SDG Index 2019
For the second year in a row, Kerala retained its first rank among states and Bihar came last in the Niti Aayog’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India Index for 2019.
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#NitisSDG #SDG #NitisSDGIndex #Kerala

Carbon tax waiver for coal mooted
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office has proposed waiving a tax on coal to help finance pollution-curbing equipment, according to documents, but the move would also make coal more competitive in price with solar and wind energy.
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#Carbon #taxwaiver #coalmooted #NarendraModis

India's green cover increased
India’s green cover increased by 5,188 sq km (0.6%), an area the size of Goa and Delhi put together, in the past two years, shows a new assessment report of the government on the status of forest and tree cover in the country, released on 30 December 2019.
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#Indiasgreen #coverincreased #Goa #RFA

14th Global Healthcare Summit
Visakhapatnam will host the prestigious three-day 14th Global Healthcare Summit from January 3, 2021.
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#14thGlobalHealthcare #GlobalHealthcareSummit #AAPI #Visakhapatnam

Policy decisions for economy in 2019
From the point of view of the economy, 2019 proved a rather challenging year for India. Difficulties facing the Indian economy was a much-debated issue throughout the year.
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#economy #AGR #Policydecisions #Indianeconomy

102-trn infrastructure projects unveiled
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 30 December 2019 unveiled Rs 102 trillion of infrastructure projects that will be implemented in the next five years as part of the government's spending push in the infrastructure sector.
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#NirmalaSitharaman #projectsunveiled #IndependenceDay
Green light to IOA for hosting Commonwealth shooting
The government on 4 January 2020 approved "in principle" the Indian Olympic Association's proposal to host the Commonwealth shooting championships and archery events -- which are not part of the 2022 Commonwealth Games roster -- in March 2022.
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#IOA #Commonwealth #Greenlight #NRAI #shooting

Only 7 states manage to address zero hunger goal
India has performed dismally on UN’s Sustainable Development Goals with only seven Indian states successfully addressing “hunger and malnutrition”. The worst performers in the zero hunger goal were Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand.
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#India #NITIAayog #SDG #hunger #malnutrition #ZeroHunger

DRDO gets ready for war of future
The rapidly evolving technology is challenging the traditional norms of technology assessment and forecasting. Today India is emerging as the nation of Startups and the pace of innovation is such that, the modern-day technology needs to be evaluated and it’s future potential ascertained with unimaginable immediacy.
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#DRDO #War #DYSL #QRNG #NarendraModi

India extends LoC for solar parks in Cuba
India has extended a line of credit of $75 million (over Rs 500 crore) to Cuba for financing solar parks. An agreement signed between Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) and Banco Exterior De Cuba in July last year came into effect from December 12, the RBI said in a statement.
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#LoC #solar #Cuba #BEDC #India #ForeignTradePolicy

SC interpreted anti child marriage
The anti-child marriage law does not intend to punish a male aged between 18 and 21 years for marrying a “female adult,” the Supreme Court has held in a recent judgment.
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#SC #childmarriage #ChildNotBride #MMShantanagoudar #femaleadult
WESO report
Global unemployment is projected to increase by around 2.5 million in 2020 and almost half a billion people are working fewer paid hours than they would like or lack adequate access to paid work, according to the UN's International Labour Organization report.
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#WESO #Organization #ILO #SDG #humantalent #WESOreport

India in corporate commitments to SBT
India has ranked 5th among the countries surveyed for corporate commitments to science-based targets (SBT), ahead of Germany and Sweden, according to a report by a non-profit organization released in Mumbai.
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#India #SBT #CDP #DamandeepSingh #Mumbai

Indians most-trusting in climate science The global public overwhelmingly blames global warming on human activities with trust level declining in climate science, but Indians are the most trusting people in this regard, a new opinion poll showed on 21 January 2020.
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#Indians #WEF #SAP #NGOs #trusting #climatescience

India among top 10 FDI recipients
India was among the top 10 recipients of Foreign Direct Investment in 2019, attracting $49 billion in inflows, a 16 per cent increase from the previous year, driving the FDI growth in South Asia, according to a UN report released.
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#FDI #UNCTAD #India #GTIM #SouthAsia #GDP

SC refuses to stay poll bond scheme
The Supreme Court refused to order an interim stay on the electoral bond scheme but decided to hear the matter after two weeks.
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#SC #CJI #SuryaKant #ADR #NGO #RanjanGogoi
India in RCEP dialogue
India has been extended an invitation to join talks on the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) next month, but is still on the fence about participation, say sources.
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#RCEP #India #Malaysia #ASEAN #FTAs

India in Democracy Index 2019
India slipped 10 places to 51st position in the 2019 Democracy Index’s global ranking, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit, which cited “erosion of civil liberties” in the country as the primary cause for the downtrend.
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#India #DemocracyIndex2019 #EIU #globalranking #Xinjiang

A new virus : Wuhan virus
The Union Health Ministry has sounded an alert at international airports for thermal screening of passengers arriving from China for the novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) — also known as the Wuhan virus — the WHO is convening an Emergency Committee to discuss steps to contain its spread.
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#Wuhanvirus #WHO #SARS #MERS #CoV #UHM

India needs investment to meet UN's SDG
India needs a whopping $2.64 trillion investment to meet the UN's sustainable development goals (SDGs), offering the private sector an investment opportunity of over $1.12 trillion by 2030, according to a report.
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#UN #SDG #investment #India #infrastructure

Daman as headquarters of the merged UT
The Centre on 22 January 2020 designated Daman as the headquarters of the merged Union Territories of Daman & Diu, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli.
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#Daman #GST #UTs #Headquarters #VAT #NagarHaveli
SC land acquisition case
Dealing with two conflicting judgments of the Supreme Court on the interpretation of Section 24 (2) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, a five-judge Constitution Bench on 7 March 2020 ruled that proceedings under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 will not lapseif the compensation payable to the land owner is tendered by depositing it in the treasury even if the land owner refuses to accept it.
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#SC #ArunMishra #LAA #AKGoel #acquisition

International Women’s Day 2020
The International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 every year to remind ourselves of the sacrifices they have made as well as the efforts they have put in to shape our lives for the better.
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#IWD2020 #UN #InternationalWomensDay #SDG #FWC

‘Social Network’ in early animals
Some of the first animals on Earth were connected by networks of thread-like filaments which may have been used for nutrition, communication or reproduction, the earliest evidence yet found of life being connected in this way, according to a study.
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#SocialNetwork #Earth #animals #AlexLiu

Three space tourists to ISS
Elon Musk-led private space launch company SpaceX plans to send three tourists to the International Space Station (ISS). The 10-day long space voyage would take place sometime around the end of 2021.
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#ISS #SpaceX #AxiomSpace #orbit