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Australian civilian honour for Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Biocon chairperson & MD Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has been awarded the Order of Australia, country’s highest civilian honour, for her significant contribution towards advancing bilateral relationship with Australia. She is the 4th Indian to receive it.

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Australia Capital: Canberra; Currency: Australian dollar

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Hyderabad, Bengaluru top 2 most dynamic cities globally in list of 130

Hyderabad has emerged as world's most dynamic city, performing better on parameters like socio-economic & commercial real estate, as per JLL India report Bengaluru has been ranked 2nd, while Chennai is at 5th & Delhi at 6th position in the list.

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7 Indian cities feature in the top 20 in 2020 rankings

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Google parent Alphabet is now a $1 trillion company

Google's parent company Alphabet finally reached $1 trillion mark, thereby becoming the 4th company in the world to be a part of the exclusive $1 trillion companies club after Apple, Microsoft & Amazon

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Alphabet owns Google and all of its core businesses

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MoU b/w NITI Aayog & UT Ladakh for Development of Infrastructure Projects

Under this MoU, NITI Aayog will be supporting the UT’s administration through its key initiative ‘Development Support Services to States for Infrastructure Projects' for identifying prioritized infra projects & providing end-to-end management support

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Rajiv Kumar is currently the vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog

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9th International Children's Film Festival begins in Kolkata

9th International Children's Film Festival began in Kolkata with the screening of Aizaz Khan directed Hamid. An anthology of children's films in Bengali in the last 100 years & an exhibition on movie posters is held along with the festival

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West Bengal Governor: Jagdeep Dhankhar

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Indian Classical Singer Sunanda Patnaik Passes Away

Indian classical singer Sunanda Patnaik, popularly known as "guruma" passed away at a private hospital in Kolkata at the age of 85. She started singing at All India Radio in Cuttack in 1948 at the age of 14.

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She received Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1970 and 1971

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HURL launches ‘Apna Urea - Sona Ugle’ brand

Fertiliser Minister DV Sadananda Gowda launched the ‘Apna Urea - Sona Ugle’ brand of Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited (HURL) for the revival of 3 sick urea plants located at Gorakhpur, Sindri and Barauni & also unveiled the company’s logo.

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HURL is a JV company b/w IOCL, NTPC & Coal India

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Union Ministers Prakash Javadekar, R K Singh inaugurate Elecrama 2020

Prakash Javadekar & R K Singh on inaugurated Elecrama 2020 in Noida, organised by industry body IEEMA which is targeting businesses worth Rs 30,000 crore during the 5-day event. Focus of this year's event: e-mobility, energy storage, start-up among others

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U.P. govt set a target of installing 2000 MW solar power y-o-y

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Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal to lead Indian delegation to WEF 2020

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal to lead the Indian delegation to the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos & hold bilateral meetings with ministers of Australia, South Africa, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Korea and Singapore.

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2020 Theme: Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World

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Centre appoints Nripendra Misra as chairman of NMML executive council

Nripendra Misra, has been appointed chairperson of the executive council of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) while Dr A Surya Prakash, chairperson of the Prasar Bharati board, to be the council's vice-chairperson.

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Nripendra Misra is a Former principal secretary to PM Modi