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Dr Rajendra Joshi conferred with 'Pravasi Bhartiya Samman'

Dr. Rajendra Joshi has been conferred with the Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award for his outstanding achievement in the field of Science & his contribution in promoting the honour & prestige of India and in fostering the interests of Overseas Indians.

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The Indian Ambassador to Switzerland is Sibi George.

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Resolution to combat terrorist financing passed by UN Council

The resolution calls for member nations to members to create financial intelligence units in order to ensure that their domestic laws and regulations establish serious criminal offenses to the collection of funds/financial resources providing for terror groups.

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U.N. counter-terrorism chief: Vladimir Voronkov.

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DK Jain appointed BCCI's ad-hoc Ethics Officer

In addition to BCCI Ombudsman, Committee of Administrators has appointed Justice (Retd.) DK Jain as an Ethics Officer for looking into the matters of Conflict of Interest. He is appointed on an ad-hoc basis until a permanent appointment takes place.

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BCCI President: C.K. Khanna; Headquarters: Mumbai.

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A.M. Turing Award awarded to 3 Artificial Intelligence scientists

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun were announced as recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.

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A.M. Turing Award is referred to as "Nobel Prize of Computing".

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Rs 5000 Cr to be infused into Bank Of Baroda: Government

The government decided to infuse around Rs 5000 crore into state-owned Bank of Baroda ahead of its merger with 2 other public sector lenders Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank. The merger will be effective from April 1, 2019.

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The merged bank would be 3rd largest lender after SBI & ICICI.

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Skytrax World Airport Awards announced for 2019

Singapore's Changi Airport was announced as the world's best for the 7th consecutive year while Tokyo Haneda and Seoul Incheon were placed at 2nd and 3rd position. Japan's airports also won the cleanest and the best airport staff title.

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Skytrax is an airline & airport review/ranking site.

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Blockchain Based Marketplace launched by Coffee Board of India

Commerce Ministry launched blockchain based coffee e-marketplace through video conferencing in New Delhi. The project would help integrate the farmers with markets in a transparent manner & lead to the realization of a fair price for coffee producers.

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Coffee Board (under Commerce Ministry) Head Office: Bangalore.

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Book on Indian Fiscal Federalism launched

N.K. Singh, Chairman of 15th Finance Commission launched the book “Indian Fiscal Federalism” authored by Dr. Y. V. Reddy, former Governor of RBI. The book describes Fiscal Federalism as a dynamic process, Work in Motion.

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Y.V Reddy was Chairman of 14th Finance Commission.

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3rd edition of AUSINDEX Exercise to be organised

More than 1,000 Australian Defence Force personnel to work together with their Indian counterparts on naval manoeuvres and military training activities for AUSINDEX-2019 to be organized in Visakhapatnam.

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Exercise Malabar is a naval exercise b/w U.S.A, Japan & India.

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AI-based system to detect malaria developed by IIT-Delhi

Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi researchers recently developed an Artificial Intelligence-based electronic hardware system to detect malaria, tuberculosis, intestinal parasite & cervical cancer in milliseconds.

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IIT-Delhi BoD Chairman: Kumar Mangalam Birla.

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Savita Punia to captain Indian women’s hockey team in Malaysia tour

Goalkeeper Savita appointed as captain of 18 player contingent of Indian women's hockey team for the five-match series against Malaysia slated for April 2019. She stands in place of regular skipper Rani Rampal, who is nursing an injury currently.

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Hockey coach of Indian women's national team: Sjoerd Marijne.