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Tata Steel commissions India's first plant for CO2 capture from blast furnace gas

Tata Steel commissioned a 5-tonne per day (TPD) carbon capture plant at its Jamshedpur Works, making it the country's first steel company to adopt such a carbon capture technology that extracts CO2 directly from the blast furnace gas.

This project has been executed with technological support from Carbon Clean, a global leader in low-cost CO2 capture technology.

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Tata Steel will reuse the captured CO2 on site to promote circular carbon economy.

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EESL executive chairman Saurabh Kumar resigns

Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) executive vice chairman Saurabh Kumar tendered his resignation.

EESL’s Kumar became the face of energy efficiency programmes in the country as he spearheaded the world’s largest non-subsidized distribution programme of LED lamps under the ‘Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs and Appliances for All’ (Ujala) scheme.

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EESL Subsidiaries: EESL EnergyPro Assets Limited, EPSL Trigeneration Private Limited.

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Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change launches PRANA portal for regulation of air pollution

MoEFCC, Shri Bhupendar Yadav launched a portal named “PRANA” (Portal for Regulation of Air-pollution in Non-Attainment cities) under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) on the occasion of the second International Day of Clean Air For Blue Skies.

Knowledge Lens collaborated with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), GIZ and MoEFCC to develop PRANA.

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Knowledge Lens:a B2B product company that builds innovative solutions including AI, IoT

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Ford Stops Making Cars In India, The Third U.S. Vehicle Maker To Exit

Ford Motor Company announced that it would stop producing cars in India as the global auto industry continues to grapple with a shortfall in semiconductors and other components due to supply chain disruptions.

Other US companies stopped operation in India are Ford's American rival General Motors (GM) and the American motorcycle company Harley-Davidson.

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Ford Motor Company: headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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National Engineer's Day 2021: September 15

Engineer's Day is celebrated on September 15 every year to mark the birth anniversary of Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. Engineer's Day is celebrated to pay rich tributes to Bharat Ratna Visvesvaraya who was regarded as the 'Father of Modern Mysore'.

Theme 2021:- 'Engineering for A Healthy Planet- Celebrating the UNESCO Engineering Report'.

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UNESCO celebrates World Engineer's Day on March 4 annually.

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China launches Earth observation satellite that can obtain radioactive data

China launched the 24th Gaofen-series Earth-observation satellite in a bid to monitor environmental protection efforts and boost its natural resources surveillance. The satellite was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province on a Long March 4C carrier rocket. The Gaofen programme was launched by Beijing in 2010.

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The Gaofen 5-02 is equipped with hyperspectral observational devices.

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Jharkhand assembly clears 75% quota in private jobs for locals

Jharkhand assembly has cleared bill with some changes - a key piece of legislation that accords 75% reservation to locals in all existing jobs up to ₹40,000/- month in the private sector.

Jharkhand State Employment of Local Candidates Bill 2021 was originally tabled in the assembly’s budget session in March, when it was referred to the panel for deeper examination.

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CM:- Hemant Soren, Governor:- Ramesh Bais

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Oxford Named World’s Best For Record Sixth Year As Universities Get Covid-19 Research Boost

Oxford retains top spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the 6th consecutive year, while its great rival Cambridge improves from sixth in last year’s ranking to fifth.

US continues to dominate the top of the rankings, taking the remaining 8 spots in the top 10, with the California Institute of Technology & Harvard claiming a tie for 2nd position.

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International Day of Democracy 2021: September 15

September 15 is celebrated as International Day of Democracy after being established in 2007 through a resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).International Day of Democracy provides an opportunity to review the state of democracy in the world.

It was adopted on September 15, 1997 by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

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Theme 2021:- "strengthening democratic resilience in the face of future crises."

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Government sets up board for advance rulings in income tax matters

Union government proposes to revamp the advance ruling mechanism under the GST by setting up a centralised authority to address the issue of contradictory orders passed by the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) in different states.

The plan is to replace the AARs with a BAR (Board for Advance Ruling) located at the central level with operational centres in Delhi & Mumbai.

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Rail Vikas Nigam inks MoU with NHAI for construction of Multi-Modal Logistics Parks under Bharatmala Pariyojana

Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) represented by the National Highways Logistics Management Limited (NHLML).

The MoU has been signed to develop Multi-Modal Logistics Parks (MMLPs) across the country under the Bharatmala Pariyojana programme.

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Infosys launches digital commerce platform Equinox

IT services major Infosys formally launched its 'Equinox' suite of solutions to help enterprises transform their online and in-store functions and deliver personalised omnichannel commerce experiences for B2B and B2C buyers.

Equinox's target industries include retail, CPG, telecom, automotive, manufacturing and media streaming.

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Lasith Malinga announces retirement from all forms of cricket

Sri Lanka pace veteran Lasith Malinga announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. His toe-crushing yorkers delivered from a low and distinct sling-arm action made him one of the greatest bowlers in men’s T20 cricket.

The 38-year-old was captain of Sri Lanka’s 2014 T20 World Cup winning team. He last played a T20I match for Sri Lanka in March 2020 against West Indies

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Shivani Meena becomes first excavation engineer to work in an open cast mine in CCL

Shivani Meena has become the first woman excavation engineer to work in an open cast mine at Coal India arm CCL.

She will be posted at CCL's Rajrappa project, one of the important enterprises of the coal mining behemoth.

# Akanksha Kumari became Coal India's first woman mining engineer to work in an underground mine.

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Central Coalfields Limited - a subsidiary of Coal India.