June 2020 Flashcards

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When is World Elder Abuse Awareness celebrated ?

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June 15 It is celebrated by the United Nations, and raises awareness of social, cultural, economic and demographic processes that has impacts on Elder neglect and abuse The theme for 2020 is - "Lifting up Voices" This year is the World Health Oganisation has launched a campaign - " Safeguard older persons urine covid-19 and Beyond"

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Pashupatinath Under the agreement, India has pledged to extend financial assistance of INR 2.33 crores. The project is to be implemented by Kathmandu Metropolitan City The Pashupatinath Temple is the largest temple complex in Nepal. The temple is one of the UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Nepalese Rupee

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Bidya Devi Bhandari

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KP Sharma Oli

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The UNCTAD has released its World investment Report 2020. According to the report India is the ninth largest recipient of FDI in 2019 According to the report, the FDI in India has increased from USD 42 million in 2018 to USD 51 million in 2019. The report also said that Global FDI inflows are to decrease by 40% in 2020 as compared to 2009

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M. Ajit Kumar

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e office E office has been developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and supported by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievance The aim of the app is to improve governance by automating the internal processes of handling files and taking decisions within the government The app enables employees to fo online file related work, operating files, preparing letters, etc.

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Global Partnership of Artificial Intelligence The other leading member countries that joined with India are UK, USA, European Union, Australia, France, Canada, Germany , etc.

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the GPAI the first initiative of its kind that will help inunderstanding the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence better.

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India and China SIPRO Yearbook is released by a Swedish think tank. It also reports that China is modernizing its nuclear arsenal. China and Pakistan, as compared to India, have more nuclear warheads. According to SIPRI, the 9 major nuclear armed states of the world include - US, UK, Russia, France, India, Pakistan, China, North Korea and Israel. These countries together possessed 13,400 nuclear weapons in the beginning of 2020..

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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Sweden, dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. It provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources to policy makers, researchers, media and interested public

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Dadabhai Naoroji Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Asian to be elected in British Parliament. It is written by historian Dinyar Patel It was published by the Harvard University Press 2020.

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Author of Dadabhai Naoroji's book titled "Naoroji Pioneer of Indian Nationalism " He is an assistant professor at the Department of History at the University of South Carolina He researched the life and career of Indian nationalist leader Dadabhai Naoroji He focused on the Indian nationalist movements in the city of Bombay and the Parsi Zoroastrians community. Writes for BBC, Newyork Times, Hindu, Scroll He received two Fulbright awards and National Endowments for Humanities for his research

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Deccan Development Society (DDS) It is a Hyderabad based NGO, which won the Biodiversity Award 2020 and a grant of 4000 euros (approx INR 35 lakhs) for their contribution of DDS women in rehabilitation of degraded lands to promote biodiversity. The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Award is given to individuals to recognise their contributions towards preserving the planet in the following three areas :- - Limiting the effects of climate change - Preserving biodiversity - Water resource management and combat desertification

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Olivier Wenden

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Works in 75 villages with women in Sanghams in the Sangareddy District of Telangana DDS works to achieve autonomy in production of food, seeds, natural resources, market and media

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Climate Change -- Professor John Rockstrom (Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Effects) The Water Award -- International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sr Lanka

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Prince Albert II of Monaco

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PV Satheesh

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Hyderabad, Telangana

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Uttar Pradesh the Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Authority (UPSIDA) decided to adopt the scheme of Flatted Factory Model to ensure the availability of industrial land. This means that non polluting industries can operate in Multi storied buildings. UPSIDA has set 5 acres as the minimum land requirement. The model permits the structure of minimum 4 storeys including the ground floor to be converted as a flatted factory.

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Alok Tandon

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Kanpur, UP

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Yogi Adityanath

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Anandiben Patel

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Alok Kumar

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Indian Gaurs (Bisons) Indian with the help of the World Wide Fund (WWF) has recently held an estimation exercise of Indian Gaur in the Nilgiris forest division of Tamil Nadu This is the first such exercise ever to be held in the region. According to the exercise, there are about 2000 gaurs across the division The IUCN Red List has put the Indian Gaurs under Vulnerable Category. The Wild Life Protection Act, 1972 has put the Indian Gaurs under Schedule I Indian Gaurs are the largest and tallest family of wild cattle. They are grazing animals. They are being affected by invasive spread of certain species of plants in the reserve forest and by an increase in fences setup by resorts and hotels

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Stand for Infectious Disease Diagnostic Lab. It is a mobile testing facility that has been created by the Andhra Pradesh Med Tech Zone (AMTZ) team with the support of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) under the "National Biopharma Mission" being implemented by the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) In Order to provide coronavirus testing access to rural households these labs have been established. The first Island has been established in New Delhi as part of DBT ( Department of Biotechnology) AMTZ (Andhra Pradesh Med Tech Zone) COMMAND (COVID Medtech Manufacturing Development Consortia) The laboratory was built in the record time of 8 days on receipt of of Automotive Chassis (vehicles frame) from Bharat benz

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Dr. Harsh Vardhan

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Renu Swarup

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Dr Jitendra Sharma

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Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

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41 coal blocks This auctionoption has been launched under the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan announced by the Prime Minister. It will be conducted through video conference The process of auction was initiated by the Ministry of coal in Association the FICCI under the provisions of the Coal Mines (Special Provision) Act, 2015 and Min andes and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 This auction has opened India coal sector for private players

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The government has set a target to gasify around around 100 million tonnes of coal by 2030. The commencement of the auction process of the blocks is likely to contribute rupees 20,000 crore in revenues annually to the state government. To the central government is expected to Gonda rupees 33 thousand crore of capital investment over the next 5 to 7 years.

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Project development cell Amitesh Kumar Sinha The cell will help meet the centres 175 gigawatt target for green energy capacity by 2022. Director of MNRE Ruchin Gupta and other official from Grid Solar Power Division and Invest India will also have representation in the cell.

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Amitesh Kumar Sinha

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Ruchin Gupta

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Uttar Pradesh UP has employed 57,12,975 workers from 56981 villages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) Employment provided by UP constitutes 18% of the total work generated under the scheme. UP is followed by Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh. The maximum number of workers in UP have been engaged in Sitapur district (1.91 lakh) followed by Basti (1.60 lakh) UP has generated 7.93 crore man days and will provide jobs to 10 lakh workers in the coming days

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Assessment of climate change over the Indian region Report has been prepared with the support of the Ministry of Earth Sciences and edited by the scientist of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, (IITM) Pune Reports published as an open access book by Spring Nature

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Average temperature of India has risen by 0.7 ° Celsius between 1901 2018. It is projected to rise by 2.7 ° Celsius 5:20 99 in the best case scenario and in the worst case scenario will rise by 4.4 ° Celsiusby 2099 Sea level in Mumbai and Bengal coast is rising at a rate of 3 cm and 5 cm respectively which is projected to rise by 30cm 2099 The temperature of the Indian Ocean including the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal has written by 1 ° Celsius in 1951 to 2015 which is higher than the Global average

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Urjit Patel He was the former governor of RBI He will succeed Vijay Lakshman Kelkar, who was the former chairman of NIPFP

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The centre undertakes research policy advocacy and capacity building areas related to public economics and the NIPFP assists the central state and local government in - formulating policies - providing an analytical base

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Manipur 19th Great June Uprising Day is observed in memory of the 18 people who lost their life on 18th June 2001 in the June uprising to protect the territorial integrity of Manipur. This year marks the 19th anniversary of the day The day was observed in all parts of the state and the main event took place at Kekrupat Martyrs Memorial

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The june uprising was the protest to protect the integrity and sanctity of the Manipur territory against the the insertion of the words "without territorial limits" in the amended ceasefire agreement between the union government and the National socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN)

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The commemoration was organised by Sunil Karman and Pheiroijam Nando Luwang

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N Viren Singh

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Najma heptulla

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25th edition To honour Kerala as father of library movement - Puthuvayil Narayana Panicker and his significant contribution to the reading culture which make panel as universal literacy rate 100% in 1990. The day aims to encourage reading among students across the country The week following June 19th 2020 will be celebrated as reading week and Reading month will be celebrated from June 19th to July 18, 2020.

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PN Panicker's As announced by CBSE the 25th National reading day will be celebrated with special attention on technology driven reading

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19 June 1996

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It is the mother organisation of PN Panicker Vigyan Vikas Kendra. It was established during the 84th birth anniversary of P N Panick, under the chairmanship of VR Krishna Iyer J. It is headquartered at Trivandrum, Kerala

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Thiruvananthapuram

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Pinarayi Vijayan

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Arif Mohammad Khan

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June 20 To celebrate the strength and courage of the people who were faced to leave their homes and leave the country due to conflicts of persecution. The day has been designated as such by the United Nations The theme this year is " Every Action Counts" United Nations General Assembly designated June 20th as the world Refugee day in December 2000

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June 28, 2001 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee convention and its 1976 protocol. Before the globalisation of the day by the United Nations it was initially celebrated as the African Refugee Day by the Organisation of African Unity

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People who fled their home and country due to fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality or political opinion or to escape the natural and manmade disaster

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People who claim to be refugees Padai status is yet to be evaluated by country to which they fled

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People who leave their homes and move within their country without crossing any International border

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People without recognised nationality and who do not belong to any country

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Former refugees who returned to their country or region

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Filippo Grandi

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Geneva, Switzerland

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Science and technology Yojana for AmtmaNirbhar Bharat in Mining Advancement (SATYABHAMA) It has been launched by the Union Ministry of Mines and Coal SATYABHAMA is also been integrated with NITI Aayog portal - 'NGO Darpan' The portal can be accessed at research.mines.gov.in

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Prahlad Joshi

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The portal will allow researchers to submit their reports to be submitted in an electronics format. To this day progressive final technical report only be submitted physically by the researchers. Now project proposals can also be submitted through the portal The portal will also be used for regular management of grants or funds for various projects by both the officials and for researchers and scientists alike

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Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) Isolation Kits Viral Transport Media (VTM) Kits Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test Kits the Test kits were developed by Guwahati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) and RR Animal Healthcare Limited, IIT Guwahati for diagnosing COVID19

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Multi State Urban Cooperative Bank Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank As per the earlier notification the regulator instructions for after 22nd June 2020, which now have been extended to 22nd December 2020

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The PMC Bank crisis started a money laundering cases filed against the bank by the enforcement directorate for providing loans to a financially stressed real estate company named Housing Development & Infrastructure (HDIL) from the Bhandup branch of the bank/ Despite the non payment of the loan amount by the company, the bank officials did not last Friday loan as a non performing loan. Restrictions were imposed by RBI on PMC Bank in September in 2019 under section 35a of the Banking Regulation Act 1949. The carbs restricted the bank customer withdrawal limit rupees thousand deposit and later gradually increased to rupees 25000 per depositor. It is now rupees 100000 per depositor.

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Coal India Limited (CIL) and Atal innovation mission (AIM)

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42 crore citizens INR 65,454 crores. The amount is distributed in the following three forms:- - through direct benefit transfer to beneficiary such as women, Jan Dhan account holders, senior citizen, BPL ,etc. - providing free food grains to all families registered as BPL card holders - providing free LPG cylinders to women registered under Ujjwala Yojana

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It was announced by finance minister on 26 March 2020 for providing economic support at the time of nationwide lock down due to covid-19 for the financially weaker sections of society Total of INR 1.70 lakh crore was announced under this package

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8.52 crore LPG cylinder

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In April 113 lakh metric tonnes of food grain was lifted by all states and union territories 5.8 lakh metric tonnes of Alpha was allocated for all states and union territories for distribution for three month from April to June

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Rs. 17,891 crore | under the first payment for FY 2020-21

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20.62 crore women Jan Dhan Account holders. A total of rupees 10,315 crore was transferred in each installment Rs. 500 was credited in each installment to each account.

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Favirpravir (FabiFlu) The approval for Fabiflu was given by the National Regulatory Authority for Indian Pharmaceuticals - Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). The medicine will be distributed by Mumbai based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals The cost of one tablet is INR 103 The drive has show notable efficacy as per results from Russia and Japan

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2014 in Japan Tokyo based to Toyama chemicals Was the first to develop and manufacture the clock it has been used to treat a number of viral infections of the years especially influenza

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HDFC ergo general insurance company (third largest non Life Insurance provider) ``` and Tropogo Limited (UK based firm) ``` PSU fly insurance is a policy which will be offered on demand to Commercial loan owner and operators to give life insurance for third party liability claims coverage for property damage and bodily injury that made happen while operating the drones for activities such as festivals and events, , surveys, , mapping monitoring disaster relief initiative, et cetera. Members of the policy can claim insurance cover of upto rupees 10 lakh on TroPogo mobile app

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Mr Ritesh Kumar

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South Glamorgan

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Sandipan Sen

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Infosys It is a second major signatory and the first Indian company to sign "The Climate Pledge"

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It is an initiative started by Amazon and Global Optimism headed by Jeff bezos, founder of Amazon and Christina Figueres, founder of Global Optimism and former United Nations climate chief to become net zero carbon emitter by 2040

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Salil Parekh

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Bangalore, Karnataka

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Jeff bezos

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Washington DC, United States

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Stellapps and Zestmoney In the list will be invited to participate in the workshops events and discussions of the world economic forum for the next two years. The list of technological pioneers released by the world economic forum includes the pioneers focusing on Carbon capture, alternative meat, circular economies, food security and financial access

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Kalus Schwab

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Geneva, Switzerland

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Lizzie Chapman, Priya Sharma, and Ashish Anatharaman

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Bangalore, Karnataka

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Ranjith Mukundan

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Bangalore, Karnataka

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Bahrain. In December 2021 This is the first time Bahrain and will host a big para sport event. Announcement has just been made by the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC). The event will be organised in partnership with the National Paralympic Committee of Bahrain with the support of the local government. The game will be held from December 1st to 10th, 2021 The competition will take place across numerous venues in Khalifa Sports City, a multi use stadium in Isa town and Isa Sports City

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Tokyo 2009

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2017 Dubai

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Andhra Pradesh If we became the first Indian state to convenience legislative assembly and Council which will adopt a budget for FY21 Amit the covid-19 pandemic. Apart from this the governor of Andhra Pradesh address the Assembly through video conference was also another first for the country.

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Buggana Rajendranath

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Vishwa Bhushan Harichandan

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Andhra Pradesh

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Jammu and Kashmir The Jammu and Kashmir administration approved the Agriculture Production Department's proposal to change its name to "Agriculture Production & Farmers Welfare Department" and announced new rules for appointment to various posts. The new rules for appointment are known as " Jammu and Kashmir Probationer (Conditions of Service, Pay and Allowances) and Fixation of Tenure Rules, 2020.

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Bank of Baroda (India's third largest lender) Verification and issuance of neurones will take place through this digital platform at pass close will also be digitise to reduce costs and improve profitability