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International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of Linguistic diversity and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism. The IMLD day was announced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999 and formally recognized by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in 2002. The 2022 theme is “Using technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and opportunities”.
The Institute of Economic Growth has appointed Chetan Ghate as the new director succeeding Ajit Mishra. Chetan Ghate is a former member of the Reserve Bank of India’s first monetary policy committee between 2016-2020, is the winner of the 2014 Mahalanobis Memorial gold medal for the best research economist in the country under the age
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France and its European partners are to begin a military withdrawal from Mali after more than nine years fighting a jihadist insurgency, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, confirmed. France first deployed troops against jihadists in Mali in 2013 under the Socialist president François Hollande. The decision has been taken due to a breakdown in France’s relations
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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday launched the book titled “A Nation To Protect” authored by Priyam Gandhi Mody. Highlighting India’s fight against the COVID pandemic, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said the government had denied accepting objectionable negotiation terms raised by the top vaccine manufacturers of the world for vaccine supply
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State Bank of India (SBI), Bank of Baroda (BoB), Punjab National Bank (PNB), Union Bank of India (UBI), Canara Bank, and Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) have announced subscription to the shares of India Debt Resolution Company Ltd (IDRCL). PSBs and public Financial Institutions (FIs) will hold a maximum of 49 % stake in IDRCL and
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A book titled ‘Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us’ authored by Ro Khanna was released in February 2022. He is an Indian-American Congressman. The book highlights the effects of changing lifestyle patterns of Americans due to technological progress. The foreword to the book has been written by eminent economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya
The government of India is looking to promote ‘Heal by India’ for strengthening the country’s educational institutions in the health sector and enhancing education to churn out quality human resources in health, thus helping them become eligible to work anywhere in the world. The Union Health Ministry recently organised a Chintan Shivir — ‘Heal by
As the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) enters the seventh year of implementation with the upcoming Kharif season, the government on Friday, February 18, said it will launch a doorstep distribution drive to deliver crop insurance policies to farmers. The doorstep campaign ‘Meri Policy Mere Hath’ aims to ensure all farmers are well aware
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has reconstituted its alternative investment policy advisory committee, which advises the capital markets regulator on a range of issues that impact further development of the AIF (Alternative Investment Fund) industry)space. The reconstituted committee has 20 members. Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy is the chair of this committee. Earlier there were
The Government of India, the State Governments of Karnataka and Odisha and the World Bank have signed a $115 million (INR 869 crore) Programme (Rejuvenating Watersheds for Agricultural Resilience through Innovative Development Programme) that will help national and state institutions adopt improved watershed management practices to help increase farmers’ resilience to climate change, promote higher
