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National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)

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Estimated cost - Rs.4500 crore

• Time period - Seven years

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National Authority for Recycling of Ships

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Gandhinagar, Gujarat

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Zojila tunnel

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Srinagar valley and Leh

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“hath dhona, roke corona” campaign

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UP

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Global Handwashing Day

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Theme for 2020 is “Hand Hygiene for All”

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“Life in Miniature”project

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collaboration between National Museum (New Delhi), Ministry of Culture, and Google Arts & Culture

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first child-friendly block panchayat in the Kerala.

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Puzhakkal in the Thrissur district

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Science-Society-Setu for AatmaNirbharBharat (S34ANB), a web clinic series

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by Science for Equity Empowerment and Development SEED Division, Dpt SnT

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‘Ind Spring Board,’ an initiative for funding start-ups

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Indian Bank has partnered with IIT Madras Incubation Cell (IITMIC)

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ceiling on poll expenditure for Assembly and Lok Sabha elections

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LS - 77 lakhs & LA -30.8 lakhs.

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exporting electric autos ‘Neem G’ to Nepal

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Kerala Automobiles Limited (KAL),

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world’s biggest Zinc Smelter project

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Dosawada in Tapi district, 300 KTPA, Vedanta Group

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International Institute of Advanced Virology

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Life Science Park at Thonnakkal, Thiruvananthapuram district

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‘Red light On, Gaadi off’ campaign

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Delhi

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‘UAE-India Healthcare Conference 2020’

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Embassy of India in Abu Dhabi and the Consulate General of India in Dubai + FICCI and Invest India

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World’s first scientoon book “Bye Bye Corona”

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by Dr. Pradeep Srivastava

Governor of Uttar Pradesh has released

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national awards at the ‘Governance Now India Police Virtual Summit & Awards-2020’

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  • Innovative use of technology in Spandana and Parivartan and TATA (Training & Activities for Technology Adoption) projects
    Prakasam police department, Andhra Pradesh
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Dr. Ramineni Foundation has announced its annual awards

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Visishta Puraskaaram - Govinda Rajulu Chintala, Chairman of NABARD
○ The Visesha Puraskaarams - Suma Kanakala (actor), Sudhakar Vemuri (Badminton Umpire) and Bandlamudi Srinivas (Founder of Dwarakamai Seva Trust).
○ Special jury award, Pratyeka Puraskaaram - Sonu Sood (Actor)

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online forum - “Integrity pool”

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South Western Railway

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‘no mask, no service’ policy

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Bangladesh government

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Feni bridge

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connects Sabrum in India with Ramgarh in Bangladesh

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world’s second largest arms exporter

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UK

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“golden passport” Scheme

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Cyprus Government has canceled

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Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

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50 countries have ratified

entry into force in 90 days

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square after Harivansh Rai Bachchan

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city of Wroclaw in Poland

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Largest Fountain in The World

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Dubai’s Palm Fountain, which is located at the Pointe on Palm Jumeirah

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Flight Test of SMART

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Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART)
missile assisted release of lightweight Anti-Submarine Torpedo System for AntiSubmarine Warfare (ASW) operations far beyond Torpedo range

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10,00,000 Multi Mode Hand Grenades to the Indian Army

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M/s Economic Explosive Ltd (EEL), (Solar Group) Nagpur

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anti-radiation missile of India for the Indian Air Force (IAF)

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RUDRAM

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Sagar Kavach

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Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard

along the Kerala and Karnataka coasts

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SANT Missile

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Stand-off Anti-tank (SANT) Missile off the coast of

Odisha

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Secure Application for Internet (SAI)

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Indian Army has developed a simple and secure messaging application

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Annual Flight Safety Trophy Award

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663 Army Aviation Squadron deployed in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir

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Telemedicine “ iMediX” for Corona Care from Home

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IIT Kharagpur

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“I2Cure”

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world’s first iodine-based sanitisers “I2Cure”

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‘Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Centre’

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IIIT-Hyderabad, Public Health Foundation of India

(PHFI) and Telangana government

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Artemis Accords

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international agreement for future exploration on the Moon.

8 countries, India not present

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“Project RED”, to improve efficiencies at every level of the organisation

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LIC Housing Finance Ltd (LICHFL)

RED stands for Reimagining Excellence through Digital transformation

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Blue Origin set a reusability record for its New Shepard rocket.

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Blue Origin successfully completed the 13th New Shepard mission to space and back, and the 7th consecutive flight for this particular vehicle

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GOLD STEVIE® AWARD IN 2020 STEVIE AWARDS FOR WOMEN IN BUSINESS

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Mrs. Seema Gupta, Director (Operations), PGCIL

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Brilife

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Israel has started the human trials of Covid-19 vaccine

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“Aditi Urja Sanch”

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Min SnT has launched the Di-Methyl Ether (DME) fired “Aditi Urja Sanch” unit along with the DME-LPG blended fuel cylinders.

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BepiColombo spacecraft

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will release two probes — Bepi and Mio — that will
independently investigate the surface and magnetic field of Mercury
Europe, Japan send spacecraft on 7-year journey to Mercury

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new organ in the human throat

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“tubarial salivary glands”

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SBI chairman

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Dinesh Kumar Khara

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CFO of SBI

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Charanjit Surinder Singh Attra

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Accenture has appointed as its Chief Strategy Officer

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Bhaskar Ghosh

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fourth Deputy Governor of RBI

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M Rajeshwar Rao

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DG Bureau of Civil Aviation Security

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M.A. Ganapathy

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Chairman of the IBA for the term 2020-21

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Rajkiran Rai G, Managing Director and CEO, Union Bank of India

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MD & CEO of HDFC Bank

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Sashidhar Jagdishan

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Dr. A. V. Rama Rao Young Scientist Award-2019

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Scientist Rambabu Chegondi

‘Organic Chemistry’

53
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Nobel Prize for Physics

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Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez

54
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Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus

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Harvey Alter and Charles Rice, and Michael Houghton

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Kayakalpa award for 2019-2020.

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Karnataka’s hospitals
Emergency and Trauma Care Centre on Victoria Hospital campus - Bengaluru
✓ Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases - Bengaluru
✓ Ballari District Hospital - Ballari

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Gene-editing tool CRISPR wins the chemistry Nobel Prize 2020

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Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the U.S

57
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Nobel Prize in Literature

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Louise Glück

58
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Nobel Peace Prize 2020

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World Food Programme

59
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, JCB Prize for Literature 2020

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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
o These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light by Dharini Bhaskar
o Prelude to a Riot by Annie Zaidi
o Chosen Spirits by Samit Basu
Translation work by S. Hareesh’s Moustache - translated from Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil

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2020 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize

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Shai Evra of Princeton University, U.S

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2020 UN Global Climate Action Award

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Indian organisation “the Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE)”

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13th French Open final

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Rafael Nadal

Poland’s Iga Swiatek

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sponsor National rugby teams

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Odisha Govt - 3 yrs

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World Teachers’ Day

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“Teachers: Leading in Crisis, Reimagining the Future”

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World Mental Health Day

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‘Mental Health for All: Greater Investment – Greater Access’

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International Girl Child Day

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Theme - “My voice, our equal future”

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Global Handwashing Day - 15th October

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“Hand Hygiene for All”.

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World Students’ Day - 15th October

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Theme - ‘Learning for people, planet, prosperity, and peace’

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United Nations day 2020

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The Future We want; the UN We Need: Reaffirming our Collective Commitment to Multilateralism.

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autobiography of Dr. Balasaheb Vikhe Patil

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autobiography is titled ‘Deh Vechwa Karani’ which means ‘dedicating one’s life for a
noble cause’

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