DTR Bill referred to PSC
The DNA Technology Regulation (DTR) Bill, which seeks to control the use of DNA technology for establishing the identity of a person, has been referred to a parliamentary standing committee (PSC) for examination, the Lok Sabha secretariat has said.
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#DTRBill #PSC #deoxyribonucleicacid #MVenkaiahNaidu


DRDO signs pacts on ToT
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) signed 30 licensing agreements for Transfer of Technology (ToT) with 16 Indian companies, including three start-ups.
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#DRDO #ToT #Indiancompanies #GoaUniversity #DRDOsigns


Interpol to hold General Assembly in India
The Interpol will hold its General Assembly in India in 2022 to coincide with the 75th year of the country’s independence.
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#Interpol #GeneralAssembly #AmitShah #GeneralJürgenStock


World's first female spacewalking team
The world’s first female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on 18 October 2019, floating out of the International Space Station to fix a broken part of the power network.
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#femalespacewalking #Earth #JessicaMeir #NASAastronauts


Mars had salt lakes similar to Earth
Mars once had salt lakes that went through wet and dry phases similar to those on the Earth, according to a study which indicates that the red planet’s climate ‘dried out’ over a long time.
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#Mars #Earth #driedout #GaleCrater #saltlakes

Code on IR Bill approved
The Centre approved the Code on Industrial Relations (IR) Bill, 2019 — considered to be the most contentious labour law amendments. The central government has withdrawn its proposal to give flexibility to big companies, in terms of manpower, to retrench or lay off workers and shut shop without seeking official consent, a government official said, requesting anonymity.
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#IR #Bill #UttarPradesh #IndustrialRelationsBill #DignityofLabour #amendment

Unified regulator for IFSC
The government will set up a unified regulator for International Financial Services Centres. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Union Cabinet. The International Financial Services Centres Authority Bill, 2019 will be introduced in the Lok Sabha after withdrawal from the Rajya Sabha.
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#Unified #IFSC #CCEA #Irdai #RajyaSabha #IFSCAB

National Institute for Sowa-Rigpa
The Union Cabinet approved setting up of the National Institute for Sowa-Rigpa in Leh as an autonomous organization. Sowa-Rigpa is a traditional Tibetan system of medicine practised in the Himalayan belt of India.
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#NationalInstitute #SowaRigpa #NISR #AYUSH #NarendraModi #UnionCabinet

TOT model for national highways
The government approved amendments proposed to the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model for national highways. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has given its approval to the amendments proposed in the TOT model by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.
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#TOT #CCEA #COD #NHAI #EPC #BOT #NirmalaSitharaman

Singapore to use ITR at Chandipur
The armed forces of Singapore, which already use Indian military facilities for training of their mechanized forces, artillery and F-16 fighter jets, will soon also begin to use the integrated test range (ITR) for firing of missiles at Chandipur in Odisha as well.
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#ITR #Chandipur #RajnathSingh #Singapore #SITMEX

India is seventh-most affected by terror
India is at seventh place in a global think tank’s list of countries most affected by terrorism. The annual report by the Sydney-based Institute for Economics and Peace states that the country most affected by terrorism in 2018 was Afghanistan (7,379 killed), displacing Iraq (1,054 killed) as the deadliest country.
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#India #Iraq #Afghanistan #JeM #GTI #TerrorFactfile

Sri Lanka’s new prime minister
Sri Lanka’s former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa on 21 November 2019 took oath as the new prime minister of the island nation after incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe formally stepped down from his post.
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#SriLanka #MahindaRajapaksa #PGR #LTTE #illegal

International children's peace prize
The Hague: Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg was awarded an international children's peace prize on 20 November 2019, for her work in the struggle against climate change which has resonated with schoolchildren across the world.
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#Internationalchildren #DivinaMaloum #PeacePrize #DKR