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Dhanbad best city for 4G availability in India

According to London-based wireless coverage mapping company OpenSignal. In terms of 4G availability, Dhanbad in Jharkhand topped the list of 50 cities in India. Ranchi came second followed by Srinagar.

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Dhanbad scored 95.3 per cent in OpenSignal's measurements.

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Hitachi Payments appoints Rustom Irani as managing director

Hitachi Payment Services (Hitachi Payments) appointed Rustom Irani as the new managing director (MD) of the company. His role is in addition to his responsibilities as the CEO of cash business. He will also be inducted into the company's board.

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Loney Antony led Hitachi Payments as the MD from its inception.

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PNB sells stake in PNB Housing Fin for Rs 1,851.60 crore

Punjab National Bank (PNB) sold its stake in PNB Housing Finance to General Atlantic and Varde Partners for Rs 1,851.60 crore. They bought 1.09 crore shares each. Now, PNB hold a strategic stake of 19.78 per cent in PNB Housing.

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MD & CEO Of Punjab National Bank- Sunil Mehta.

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NASA's Mars Helicopter Completes Flight Tests

After passing a critical series of tests at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the space agency's Mars helicopter is ready to take flight over the Mars.It will take flight for the 1st time, when it launches with NASA's next Mars rover in 2022.

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NASA-National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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L&T announces new strategic initiative L&T-Nxt

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) announced a new initiative, L&T-Nxt, to focus on the areas of artificial intelligence, internet of things (IoT), virtual reality, augmented reality, geospatial solutions as well as cybersecurity.

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S N Subrahmanyan is Chief Executive Officer and MD of L&T.

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Zydus Cadila gets USFDA nod for generic drug

Zydus Cadila received the approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to market the drug in strengths of 5 mg and 10 mg. The sales of Ambrisentan tablets (ATs) USP in the US market stood at USD 943 million (about Rs 6,500 crore) last year.

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ATs are used to treat high blood pressure in the lungs.

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Nina Martinez, world's first living HIV-positive kidney donor

The surgeons at Johns Hopkins University , USA have transplanted the kidney of a 35-year-old HIV-positive woman namely Nina Martinez, into another patient with the AIDS virus. It is the first in the world of its kind.

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HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

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India Inc's foreign borrowings fall 9% to $2.81 bn in February

Acc. to RBI data, India Inc's borrowings from foreign markets fell to USD 2.81 billion in February, down by 9 per cent as compared to the year-ago month. The entire fund mop-up during the month was done through the automatic route of ECB.

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Tata Capital Housing Finance raised $200 million for on-lending.

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UNDP, World Bank propose Indicators to measure LGBTI Inclusion in Development

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank have proposed 51 indicators, aligned with the SDGs’ global indicators, as part of efforts to develop an “inclusion index” for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people.

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UNDP began developing the LGBTI Inclusion Index in 2015.

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Russian cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky dies at age 84

Acc. to Russian space agency pioneering Soviet-era cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, who made the first of his three flights to space in 1963, died at the age of 84.He made his second space flight in 1976 and his third in 1978.

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Yuri Gagarin -First human being to travel into space.