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Indian Railways Launches “Mission Satyanishtha”

The Indian Railways organized a programme on Ethics in Public Governance and Launched “Mission Satyanishtha”, aims at sensitizing all railway employees about the need to adhere to good ethics and to maintain high standards of integrity at work.

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Minister of Railways & Coal: Shri. Piyush Goyal

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Invest India and UAE Ministry sign MoU for technological cooperation

Invest India & UAE Minister for Artificial Intelligence (AI) signed an MoU for India - UAE AI Bridge. MoU will spur development across areas like Blockchain, AI & Analytics as data & processing will be a catalyst for innovation & business growth.

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Minister of Commerce & Industry & Civil Aviation: Suresh Prabhu

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West Bengal Assembly passes resolution to rename State as ‘Bangla’

WB Assembly passed a resolution to change name of the State as ‘Bangla’ in 3 languages Bengali, English & Hindi. As per resolution name changes to ‘Bengal’ in English, ‘Bangla’ in Bengali & ‘Bangal’ in Hindi & is pending since Aug 2016.

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Chief Minister of WB: Mamata Banerjee
Capital: Kolkata

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Google unveils AI chips

Google to build Artificial Intelligence chips for its data centres & announced 2 new products Edge TPU- a very small hardware chip & 2nd is Cloud IoT Edge- a software stack that extends Google Cloud’s powerful AI capability to gateways & connected devices.

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Google Hq: Mountain View, California, US CEO: Sundar Pichai

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National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme

Government will launch the National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme in New Delhi on World Hepatitis Day (28 July). The programme proposes to offer free drugs and diagnostics for hepatitis B and C at all government hospitals.

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Minister of Health and Family Welfare: Shri. J P Nadda

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SoftBank taps Paytm for mobile payments in Japan

PayPay Corp., a joint venture between SoftBank Corp. and Yahoo Japan Corp., has partnered with India’s largest payment services provider Paytm to launch barcode-based smartphone payment services in Japan by November.

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Paytm Founder: Vijay Shekhar Sharma
CEO: Renu Satti
Hq: NOIDA

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Cochin airport wins UN's top environment award

The world's first solar-powered airport, Cochin International Airport Ltd (Cial) has added another feather in its cap, it has been selected for United Nations' (UN) highest environmental accolade champion of the earth Award (2018).

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UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director: Erik Solheim

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Indian Villages Adopted By Ministers To Get Free Wi-Fi Services

Under 'Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna', villages adopted by the members of parliament will be provided free Wi-Fi services across India by the government & has proposed to set up 25,000 Wi-Fi hotspots at existing rural exchanges of BSNL.

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Min of Rural Dev, Panchayati Raj & Mines: Narendra Singh Tomar

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UP sets up committee to look into demands of 'shiksha mitras'

Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a committee to look into the demands of 'shiksha mitras' across the state, and suggest a suitable action plan, bowing to the pressure and sustained protests by them.

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UP CM: Yogi Adityanath
Capital: Lucknow

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Ramakanta Rath conferred Odisha's highest literary award

Ramakanta Rath was conferred with the state's highest literary award Atibadi Jagannath Das Samman, 2018 at Odisha Sahitya Akademi. He was earlier conferred with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977, Saraswathi Samman in 1992, Bishuva Samman in 1990 etc.

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Award-named after 15th century Odia poet Atibadi Jagannath Das.