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International Mother Language Day: 21 February

International Mother Language Day has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The 2020 theme is "Languages without borders". UN declared 2019 as The Year of Indigenous Languages

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UNESCO Headquarters: Paris, France

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Haryana govt to open Atal Kisan - Majdoor canteens to provide meals at concessional rate

Haryana government will open Atal Kisan - Majdoor canteens in all mandis and sugar mills across the state to provide affordable and cheap meals to farmers and labourers at a concessional rate of 10 rupees per plate.

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Governor of Haryana: Satyadev Narayan Arya

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Divya Kakran wins a gold medal at Asian Wrestling Championships

Divya Kakran became only the 2nd Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships defeating junior world champion Naruha Matsuyuki in New Delhi. Navjot Kaur had become the 1st Indian woman to win a gold medal at 2018 championship

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Pinki, Sarita Mor won gold in 55kg, 59kg respectively

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Centre releases Rs 19,950 cr as GST compensation to states, UTs

Central Government has released 19,950 crore rupees as GST compensation to states which gets to a total of over 1.20 lakh crore rupees paid by the government towards GST compensation to the states during current fiscal

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Minister of State Finance: Anurag Singh Thakur

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Axis Bank inks pact with Max Life to raise stake

Axis Bank, and Max Financial Services signed a confidentiality & exclusivity arrangement to explore the possibility of the private sector lender entering a long-term strategic partnership with Max Life Company Ltd.

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HQ: Mumbai; Virtual Bank asst: Axis Aha!

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SEBI redefines ‘pledge’ to protect client securities

Securities & Exchange Board of India has amended the SEBI (Depositories and Participants) Regulations by including an additional explanation that states that ‘pledge’ would also refer to ‘re-pledge of securities for margin or settlement obligations.’

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SEBI Chairperson: Ajay Tyagi

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Indian Railways launches new mobile app HRMS for its employees

The app will help lakh of railway employees to check their employment record during the tenure of their job in the Indian Railways. The HRMS Mobile App was launched by Railway Board Chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav.

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App designed & developed by Centre for Railway Inform. System

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International protection for Great Indian Bustard, Bengal Florican and Asian Elephant

India’s proposal to include Great Indian Bustard, Asian Elephant and Bengal Florican in Appendix I of UN Convention on migratory species was unanimously accepted at the 13th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species in Gandhinagar

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Govt has declared Indian elephant as National Heritage Animal

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Indian Railways launches joint research initiatives with University of Birmingham

The programme that has been launched leads to dual M.Sc. that would see NRTI students obtaining two post graduate degrees from both institutions, after spending a year studying at each institution from academic year 2020-2021

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National Rail Transport Institute was set up in 2018 at Vadodara

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RBI clears appointment of Sunil Gurbaxani as Dhanlaxmi Bank MD

RBI has approved the appointment of Sunil Gurbaxani as Managing Director and CEO of the Bank for a period of 3 years from the date of taking charge. Dhanlaxmi Bank was removed from the RBI PCA framework

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Dhanlaxmi Bank Headquarters: Thrissur

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Larry Tessler, computer engineer behind 'cut, copy and paste', passes away

Larry Tesler, the computer engineer most commonly known as the developer of the 'cut, copy and paste' functions, and 'find and replace', for user-friendliness in applications like the word processor, passed away at the age of 74

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He was also one of the pioneers of modeless computing

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P V Sindhu wins 3rd successive ESPN's Female Sportsperson of the Year award

P V Sindhu won the ESPN's Female Sportsperson of the Year award for a 3rd consecutive time while young shooter Saurabh Chaudhary bagged the honour in the male category. Chess player Koneru Humpy won the award for the Comeback of the Year

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Manu Bhaker-Saurabh Chaudhary grabbed Team of the Year honour

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Former Karnataka Minister C Channigappa passes away in Bengaluru

Former Karnataka Minister and JD(S) leader C Channigappa passed away in Bengaluru on Friday after a prolonged illness at the age of 57. Channigappa was a three-time MLA from Koratagere. Earlier, he served as the Forest Minister of Karnataka

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Karnataka CM: B. S. Yediyurappa; Governor: Vajubhai Vala

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Smart City Mission: Centre devises 20:20 model to boost laggard cities

Centre has devised a 20-20 model to pair the top 20 cities with the bottom 20 and help the laggard cities to kick-start the smartening up process by borrowing technical know-how and financial studies before the 5th anniversary of Smart City Mission

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No.1 Ahmedabad has been paired with Chandigarh, ranked 81