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India-Russia-China explore alternative to SWIFT payment mechanism

India-Russia-China explore alternative to SWIFT payment mechanism

India, Russia and China are exploring an alternative to the US-dominated SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) payment mechanism. Russia’s financial messaging system SPFS will be linked with the Chinese cross-border interbank payment system CIPS. While India still does not have a domestic financial messaging system, it plans to link the Central Bank of […]

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Uttar Pradesh government to set up bio-fuel plants to address issue of stubble burning

Uttar Pradesh government to set up bio-fuel plants to address issue of stubble burning

Supreme Court has Directed Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to prevent their farmers from stubble burning owing to the severe dip in air quality in Delhi. State government had planned to set up bio-fuel plants in every district. Farmers could sell the stubble, along with other agricultural waste, to these plants instead of burning it

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Non-Communicable Diseases

Vice President asks medical fraternity to launch awareness to prevent Non-Communicable Diseases

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has asked the medical fraternity to take lead and launch an awareness campaign on the need to prevent non-communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension and cancer, which are assuming disturbing proportions. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 He wanted both private and public hospitals as well as individual

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Joint inauguration of Metro Express and ENT hospital in Mauritius

Joint inauguration of Metro Express and ENT hospital in Mauritius

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Mauritius, The Hon’ble Mr. Pravind Jugnauth jointly inaugurated the Metro Express and new ENT Hospital in Mauritius through a video link. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister Modi noted the significance of the Metro and health-care projects in further enhancing the

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Maj AQ Khan Won Silver Medal in 53rd Asian Body Building and Physique Sports Championship 2019

Maj AQ Khan Won Silver Medal in 53rd Asian Body Building and Physique Sports Championship 2019

The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan made a clarion call for beginning a ‘Swachh PaniAbhiyaan’ or clean water mission in line with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’. Shri Paswanasserted that it is not a matter of consumer rights but of people’s lives and therefore

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President of India Presented “Vayoshreshtha Samman – 2019” to Eminent Senior Citizens & Institutions

President of India Presented Vayoshreshtha Samman – 2019 to Eminent Senior Citizens & Institutions

The President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind presented the “Vayoshreshtha Samman-2019” to the eminent senior citizens and institutions in recognition of their services towards the cause of the elderly persons to mark ‘International Day of older Persons’ at a function organized by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Union Minister for Social Justice

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