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Winner of Jnanpith Award 2017

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Shankha Ghosh

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Winner of Golden Peacock Business Excellence Award 2017

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GMR Hyderabad International Airport

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Winner of Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award 2017

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Yes Bank

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Winner of e-Puraskar Award for best performance in improving Panchayats by using ICT tools for 2016-17

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Karnataka Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department

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Winner of Golden Environmental Prize (aka Green Noble)

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Prafulla Samantara (face of people’s resistance against Vedanta’s plan to mine bauxite from Niyamgiri hills in Orissa)

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Winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2016

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Kasinadhuni Viswanath (filmmaker, actor)

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Winner of UNESCO Peace Prize

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Giuseppina (Giusi) Nicolini, Mayor of Italian island of Lampedusa

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Winner of Sahitya Akademi’s Award for translation in English

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Perumal Murugan’s Mathorubhagan (One Part Woman)

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Winner of Krishi Karman Award 2015-16 presented by Union Ministry of Agriculture for commendable increase in food grains’ production

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Himachal Pradesh

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Which organization was honoured by the Pulitzer Prizes for its work on the Panama Papers

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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

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Winner of the Asian Businesswoman of the Year presented in Birmingham, UK

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Dame Asha Khemka

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Best Hindi film at the National Film Awards

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Neerja

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Best Actor at the National Film Awards

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Akshay Kumar for Rustom

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Best Feature Film at the National Film Awards

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Kasav (Marathi)

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Award for Best Film on Social Issues at the National Film Awards

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Pink

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Best Children’s Film at the National Film Awards

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Dhanak, Nagesh Kukunoor

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Winner of 2017 UNESCO/ Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize

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Dawit Isaak

imprisoned Eritrean-Swedish journalist

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Winner of ‘Pravasi Bhartiya Samman’, which is conferred on overseas Indians

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Priti Patel 
(for exceptional contribution to national and international politics and strengthening India-UK relations)
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Name of the book recently launched by the Dalai Lama

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“Ocean and Blue Mountains”

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Who has written the book “Punjab: Building the land of Five Rivers”

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Arjun Gaind

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Who is the author of the autobiography “The Hit Girl”

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Asha Parekh with Khalid Mohamed

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Name the book authored by LS Speaker Sumitra Mahajan

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“Matoshree”

covering the life and times of legendary Devi Ahilyabai Holker who ruled the Holkar Empire

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Author of the book “Gandhi in Champaran”

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D G Tendulkar

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Author of the book “Hope in a Challenged Democracy”

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Ashwini Kumar

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Author of the book “Flaming Tresses of Draupadi”

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M Veerappa Moily

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Author of the book “Indian Railways- The Weaving of a National Tapestry”

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Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu

Minister of Railways

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Name of program to pay tribute to mothers in government run schools in Andhra Pradesh

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Ammaku Vandanam

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What is the name of the revamped National Mission on Food Processing

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SAMPADA or Scheme for Agro-Marine Produce Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters

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Who authored the Vachana, which is a prosaic form well known in Kannada literature

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Basavanna

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World Press Freedom Day

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3rd May

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World Intellectual Property Day

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26th April

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World Autism Awareness Month

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April

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World Malaria Day

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25th April

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National Panchayati Raj Diwas

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24th April

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Earth Day

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22nd April

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Civil Services Day

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21st April

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Name of the operation launched by the Indian Armed Forces to capture the Siachen glacier in Kashmir

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Operation Meghdoot
(launched on 13th April 1984)
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When did the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre take place

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13th April 1919

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Name the newest UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

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Yusra Mardini

Syrian refugee and Olympic athlete

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Miss Teen Universe 2017

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Srishti Kaur

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New Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

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Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar

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Malala Yousafzai has received honorary citizenship of which country

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Which internationally acclaimed actress has been appointed as one of the newest UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

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Kristin Davis

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Name the first country in the world to ban the mining of metals

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El Salvador

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Which two countries have recently re-established diplomatic ties after 37 years

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Cuba and Morocco

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US Air Force recently dropped MOAB or ‘Mother of all Bombs’, the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the US Military on which country

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Afghanistan

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Where was the G20 Digital Ministerial Meet held

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Dusseldorf, Germany

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New Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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Achim Steiner

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Name of the report that showed Robert Vadra made illegal profits worth Rs 50.5 crores from land deal in Haryana in 2008

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Justice S N Dhingra Commission Report

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The most corrupt State in India named by Centre for Media Studies

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India’s World Press Freedom Ranking

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India’s first smart and green Highway

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Eastern Peripheral Expressway

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Name of Committee on allowance which submitted its final report on ‘higher allowances’ and ‘minimum wages’

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Ashok Lavasa Committee

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Where did the Prime Minister launch the first UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) flight

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Jubbarhatti, an airport near outskirts of Shimla

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Minimum monthly income for contract workers proposed by the Labour Ministry

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Number of working hours for child artists fixed by the Labour Ministry

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India-Bangladesh Friendship Bridge has been proposed to be built over which river

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River Feni

which demarcates boundaries between both countries in south Tripura

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First Underwater Metro Tunnel will connect which two places

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Howrah with Kolkata in West Bengal

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India’s first sea ropeway will connect which two places

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Mumbai with the famous Elephanta Islands in the Arabian Sea

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Name of special class service for overnight journey that will ply on high demand routes introduced by the Railways Ministry

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Utkrisht Double Decker AC Yatri (Uday) Express +

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The benchmark set by the Supreme Court for maintenance to be paid by a husband to his estranged wife

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25% of his net salary

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Name of Operation launched by Income Tax Department to detect the flow of black money into the banks after demonetisation

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Operation Clean Money

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Name of operation launched for women safety by the Haryana Government

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Operation Durga

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Name of the programme initiated by Jharkhand Police to enlighten children in Naxal-affected areas in the Palamau district of Jharkhand

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Tare Zameen Par Pregramme

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Who heads the committee set up to report to save the Ganga river from pollution

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Justice (retd) Giridhar Malviya

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Name the mobile app aimed at enabling willing donors to contribute towards the family of a brave heart who sacrificed his/her life in line of duty

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“Bharat ke Veer”

67
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Who is the current Comptroller and Auditor General of India, who is also going to be auditing the UN Secretariat in New York

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Shashi Kant Sharma

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First bio-gas bus to be launched in which state

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Best Indian University in the 2017 National Institutional Ranking Framework released by the Union HRD Ministry

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IISc, Bengaluru

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Which State became kerosene-free from April onward

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Name the scheme for providing physical aid s and assisted-living devices for senior citizens belonging to BPL category launched in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh

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Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana

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New MD and CEO of LIC of India

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Vinay Shah

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name of India’s first industrial robot

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BRABO (‘BRave roBOt)

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Padayani Festival (traditional folk dance and a ritual art) is held in which state

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First transgender athletic meet held in

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Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

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Name India’s first International Olympic Committee Member

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Nita Ambani

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Winner of 2017 Mote-Carlo Rolex Masters in men’s doubles category

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Rohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas

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Which sports have been removed from 2018 Asian Games

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Cricket, Skateboarding, Sambo and Surfing

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Winner of 2017 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters in Mens’ Singles Category

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Rafael Nadal

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Winner of Asian Championship in Snooker

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Pankaj Advani

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Winner of U-18 Hockey Championship

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Winner of Chinese Formula One Grand Prix

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Lewis Hamilton

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Winner of gold medal in Thailand International Tournament in Bangkok

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Indian boxer K Shyam Kumar

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Winner of title of Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in the World for 2016

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Virat Kohli

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Winner of India Open Super Series

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P V Sindhu

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Winners of Women’s doubles in the 2017 Miami Open

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Gabriela Dabrowski and Xu Yifan

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Which High Court, after having declared Ganga and Yamuna as ‘living entities’ has now declared glaciers, forests and lakes also as similar ‘biologically living’ entities

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Uttarakhand High Court

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Tree dwelling crab has been found in which State in India

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Name the rail routes declared as Green Corridors by the North Western Railways

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Barmer-Munawab and Pipad Road-Bilara rail routes in Rajasthan

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Name of bilateral naval exercise between India and France in France’s Toulon Port

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Exercise Varuna

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Name of first ever joint military exercise between India and Nepal

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Sagarmatha Friendship 2017

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