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The 46th Edition of Copa America held between 14 June to 7 July 2019 at 6 venues in the host country. Brazil beat Peru 3-1 to win its first South American title since 2007. It was Neymar’s replacement, Everton, who led the team to victory, scoring a goal and setting up another to give Brazil […]
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Nageshwar Rao has been shunted out from the Central Bureau of Investigation and has been appointed as Director General (DG) Fire Services, Civil Defence & Home Guard, a post earlier offered to former CBI Director Alok Verma. Interestingly, IPS officer M Nageshwar Rao had replaced his boss Alok Verma on October 23 after a dramatic
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) board finalised a three- year roadmap to improve regulation and supervision, among other functions of the central bank. This medium term strategy name is Utkarsh 2022 which is in line with the global central banks’ plan to strengthen the regulatory and supervisory mechanism, sources aware of the board meeting.
For the first time a model village built with Indian assistance as part of a housing project meant for war affected people and estate workers was inaugurated in Sri Lanka. India has partnered with the ministry of housing and construction and cultural affairs to build 100 model villages consisting of a total of 2,400 houses
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The Indian Space Research Organisation has signed a contract with a Russian company “Glavkosmos” for selection support, medical examination and space training of Indian astronauts for the country’s proposed maiden manned space mission ‘Gaganyaan’. The contract was signed by Glavkosmos’ first Deputy Director-General, Natalia Lokteva, and Director of the Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC) of
The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that India needs a cultural renaissance, a large scale awareness and knowledge-sharing movement to bring the best in the Indian thought to the common man. Asserting that “share and care” was the core of Indian philosophy, the Vice President stressed the need to create
‘Vivekadeepini’ is released by Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu Read More »
Operation ‘Sudarshan’ is launched by BSF which is a massive exercise, code named ‘Sudarshan’, to fortify the ‘anti-infiltration grid’ along the Pakistan border in Punjab and Jammu. The exercise will see the entire BSF’s senior field brass, thousands of troops and machinery being deployed in these forward areas. The operation was launched on July 1
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Uttarakhand would soon have a High Altitude institute of mountain medicine, training and research center. Once completed, the state of the art institute dealing with health issues related with high altitudes would be first of its kind in Asia. Six Sigma health care, a company which at present is operating hospitals in Kedarnath, Tungnath and
Six Sigma Healthcare setup Rs 750 crore project in Rudraparayag, Uttarakhand Read More »
The Prosecco hills of Italy in northeast of Venice, which have been cultivated for centuries, were added to the World Heritage list by the UN cultural organisation. The Conegliano and Valdobbiadene hills, where the grapes that produce the famous prosecco sparking wine are grown, got the green light at a meeting of UNESCO’s World Heritage
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Bangladesh has started functioning World’s largest burn and plastic surgery institute named Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute in Dhaka. The Outpatient Department (OPD) inaugurated by the Health and Family Welfare Minister of Bangladesh Zahid Maleque. The Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute will help treat burn patients and train plastic surgeons
