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Arundhati Scheme in Assam offer free gold to brides

In the recent state budget, Rs 300 crore has been earmarked for Arundhati scheme offering 10 gm gold worth Rs 38000, limited to economically weaker sections, with annual income below Rs 5 lakh. Scheme can be availed upon formal registration of marriages

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Assam Capital: Dispur; CM: Sarbananda Sonowal

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PM Modi inaugurated 13th edition of PETROTECH conference

PM Modi inaugurated the 13th International Oil and Gas Conference - PETROTECH-2019 in Greater Noida, NCR. The event underlines the need to move towards responsible pricing of Oil and Gas to balance the interests of both the producer and the consumer

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Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas: Dharmendra Pradhan

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G Prajnesh broke into top-100 with 97th rank in ATP charts

Prajnesh Gunneswaran jumped 6 places to 97th rank to break into men’s singles top-100 ATP rankings for the first time in his career. In doubles ranking, Rohan Bopanna was put at 37 and Divij Sharan at 39

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Women's Tennis Association HQ: St Petersburg, USA

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Letter of Intent signed for India-Norway Marine Pollution Initiative

Indian MoEFCC & Norwegian External Affairs Ministry signed a letter of Intent for joint Marine Pollution Initiative & formation of a Task Force on Blue Economy with government officials, researchers and experts & private sector for sustainable solutions.

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Norway Capital: Oslo; Currency: Norwegian krone

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8th round of National Deworming Day (NDD) observed on February 10

It is observed bi-annually on 10 February & 10 August in all states and UTs Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It is a single fixed-day approach to treating intestinal worm infections in all children aged 1- 19 years

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Minister for Health and Family Welfare: J P Nadda

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Hindi declared as official language in Abu Dhabi courts

Abu Dhabi Judicial Department recently announced its decision to include Hindi as the 3rd official language to be used in its courts, alongside Arabic and English with an aim to improve access to justice delivery system for Indian expatriates

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UAE Capital: Abu Dhabi, Currency: Dirham

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83rd Senior National Badminton Championships begins in Assam

83rd edition of Senior National Badminton Championships begins in Guwahati, Assam. The top Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth among others are deemed to be the main attractions

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Saina & Sindhu stand at 9th and 6th in Women Singles rankings

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India ranked 36th position on the International Intellectual Property (IP) Index

India jumped 8 places to 36th position on IP Index, with scoring on reforms implemented by Indian policymakers towards building a sustained innovation ecosystem. Index ranks Countries on the basis of 45 indicators.

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USA’s Global Innovation Policy Centre publishes the Index

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NTPC signs ₹5,000 crore term loan with SBI

NTPC recently went into a term loan agreement for ₹5,000 crore with SBI at an interest rate linked to 3-Month MCLR of the bank. The loan will be utilised to part finance the capital expenditure of NTPC

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NTPC Founded: 1975, HQ: New Delhi

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Suresh Vaswani appointed independent director to Vodafone India

Vodafone Idea Ltd, which is now India's largest telecom operator appointed Suresh Vaswani as an independent director for a period of 3 years. He is an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur and IIM-Ahmedabad

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Vodafone-Idea CEO: Balesh Sharma