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World Science Day for Peace and Development : 10 November

Celebrated every 10 November, World Science Day for Peace and Development highlights the significant role of science in society and the need to engage the wider public in debates on emerging scientific issues.

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2019 Theme: "Open science, leaving no one behind"

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Tencent buys 10% of Policybazaar, enters India insurance market

Tencent Holdings Ltd. has acquired a minority stake in Policybazaar.com valuing the Indian online insurance aggregator at $1.5 billion. It bought 10% of Policybazaar, half of Tiger Global Management LLC’s stake in the company.

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Tencent is known for its dominant WeChat messenger app.

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India to host 2023 Men's Hockey World Cup

India will host the 2023 Men's Hockey World Cup from 13th to 29th of January.Spain and the Netherlands have been named as the co-hosts of the 2022 Women's World Cup scheduled to be held from 1st to 22nd of July.

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International Hockey Federation (FIH) HQs-Lausanne, Switzerland

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NASA unveils its first electric airplane

NASA showcased an early version of its first all-electric experimental aircraft, the X-57 "Maxwell," at aeronautics lab in the California desert. It has been adapted from a Italian-made Tecnam P2006T twin-engine propeller plane.

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X-57 has been under development since 2015.

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Thomas Dennerby appointed head coach of India U17 women's football team

All India Football Federation (AIFF) confirmed the appointment of Thomas Dennerby as the head coach of the Indian women's U-17 team for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup 2020. His last assignment was with the Nigerian women’s national team.

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U17 women's football team Captain- Hemam Shilky Devi

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Israel appoints Naftali Bennett as new Defence Minister

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed New Right party leader Naftali Bennett as the country's new Defence Minister.The appointment will be voted on at the next cabinet meeting.

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Capital: Jerusalem
Currency: Israeli new shekel

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Tally Solutions signs MoU with the ICAI to promote digitization

Business software provider Tally Solutions has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).As part of the MoU, Tally will be making its flagship product Tally.ERP 9 available to the ICAI members.

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Tejas Goenka, Managing Director, Tally Solutions.

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RBI increases household income limits for borrowers of NBFCs and MFIs

RBI has increased the household income limits for borrowers of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) from 1 lakh to 1.25 lakh rupees.For urban or semi-urban areas limit has been increased from 1.6 lakh to 2 lakh rs.

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Present Interest on reserves: 4.00% (market determined)

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Coal imports at major ports see a 18% dip to 51 MT in April-October

According to latest Indian Ports Association report, Thermal coal imports declined by 17.69% to 51.10 million tonnes at the country's top 12 major ports during April-October this fiscal.Thermal coal is the mainstay of India's energy programme.

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India is the 3rd-largest producer of coal after China & the US.

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Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey confers the National Entrepreneurship Awards 2019

Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship conferred the National Entrepreneurship Awards 2019 to Enterprises and Ecosystem builders. The award seeks to instill and entrench the entrepreneurial attitude among the future generations.

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Secretary Skill Development & Entrepreneurship- Dr K.P.Krishnan