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Exercise Dharma Guardian-2022 Culminates at Belgaum (Karnataka)

Ex DHARMA GUARDIAN-2022, an annual exercise between Indian Army and Japanese Ground Self Defence Force which commenced on 27 February 2022 at Foreign Training Node, Belgaum successfully culminated on 10 March 2022 after twelve days of intense joint military training, providing a unique opportunity of achieving synergy between Armed Forces of both nations.

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Bureau of Indian Standards signs MoU with IIT Roorkee for establishment of ‘BIS Standardization Chair Professor’

Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IIT Roorkee (IITR) on 10th March 2022 for establishment of ‘BIS Standardization Chair Professor’ at IIT Roorkee.

This would be the first Standardization Chair established by BIS in an Institute for activities on Standardization and Conformity Assessment.

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India, Canada to hold 5th Ministerial Dialogue on Trade and Investment

India and Canada will be holding the 5th Ministerial Dialogue on Trade and Investment (MDTI) from March 10-13.

The meeting will be co-chaired by Piyush Goyal, Minister of Textiles, Commerce and Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

Total bilateral trade between India and Canada including goods and services crossed USD 11 billion.

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S Sreesanth announces retirement from all forms of first-class cricket

India pacer S Sreesanth announced his retirement from all forms of domestic cricket.

Sreesanth took to Twitter to announce his retirement from all domestic formats of the game.

Sreesanth played 27 Tests and 53 ODIs for India, taking 87 and 75 wickets respectively.

He has also taken seven wickets in 10 T20 Internationals.

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Prabha Narasimhan appointed as Colgate-Palmolive India CEO

Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited appointed former Hindustan Unilever (HUL) executive Prabha Narasimhan as its CEO and MD as present chief Ram Raghavan got promoted to the role of President, Enterprise Oral Care, at its parent firm - Colgate Palmolive Company.

Raghavan succeeded Issam Bachaalani, former MD Colgate-Palmolive (India), in 2019.

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India, Bangladesh, Nepal finalise MOU for implementation of BBIN Motor Vehicles Agreement

India, Bangladesh & Nepal finalised an enabling MoU to be signed by them for the implementation of the BBIN Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA), pending ratification of the MVA by Bhutan.

The delegates agreed on specific steps and timelines to expeditiously finalise the Passenger and Cargo Protocols for the implementation of the BBIN MVA.

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Indian delegation was led by Smita Pant, Joint Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs.

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India And World Bank Sign $125 million Loan To Support Social Protection Services In West Bengal

The Government of India, the Government of West Bengal, & the World Bank signed a $125 mn IBRD loan to support efforts to help poor & vulnerable groups access social protection services in West Bengal.The state runs more than 400 programs that provide social assistance, care services, & jobs. Most of these services are offered through an umbrella platform called Jai Bangla.

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Yoon Suk-yeol will be the next president of South Korea

South Korea has chosen a conservative opposition candidate, Yoon Suk-yeol, as the country's next president following a tightly-contested race.

Mr Yoon, a political novice, edged out a victory over the Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung based on promises to tackle class inequality.

He called his win a "victory of the great South Korean people".

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Indian Railways' 1st Gati Shakti Cargo Terminal commissioned in Asansol Division of Eastern Railway

In pursuance of the Prime Minister’s vision “Gati Shakti”& Ministry of Railways’ policy regarding ‘Gati Shakti Multi-Modal Cargo Terminal’ (GCT), the Asansol Division of Indian Railways has successfully commissioned private siding of Maithan Power Limited at Thaparnagar, Jharkhand.

It was initiated in the year 2009 & subsequently, the power generation was started in 2011.

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Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog & KidEx collaborate to promote innovation & entrepreneurship

Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog has announced a partnership with KidEx Venture Private Limited to leverage KidEx’s technology platform “IKIGAI” to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among school students.

The partnership’s first engagement will go live on 1 May 2022 with AIM Bootcamp, ATL Tinkerpreneur for students of 9600+ schools.

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CCI approves acquisition of 100% share capital of L&T Investment Management Limited by HSBC Asset Management (India) Private Ltd

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) approves acquisition of 100% share capital of L&T Investment Management Limited (L&T AMC/Target) by HSBC Asset Management (India) Private Limited (HSBC AMC/Acquirer).

HSBC AMC is the asset management entity for operating the day-to-day functioning of HSBC Mutual Fund schemes.

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India’s largest reclining statue to be situated in Bodh Gaya

India's largest reclining statue of Lord Buddha is being built in Bodh Gaya.

Built by Buddha International Welfare Mission, the statue will be 100 feet long and 30 feet high.

Lord Buddha is in the sleeping posture in the statue.

The construction of the giant statue started in the year 2019.

It is being made with fiberglass and built by sculptors from Kolkata.

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Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance partners Bharat Co-operative Bank

Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance (ABSLI), the life insurance subsidiary of Aditya Birla Capital Limited (ABCL), and Bharat Co-operative Bank (Mumbai) Ltd. have announced their bancassurance partnership.

This collaboration facilitates a common platform to reach out to the bank’s five lac plus customers with relevant life insurance solutions.

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CCI clears Amazon's proposal to buy Catamaran's stake in Cloudtail parent

The Competition Commission of India has cleared Amazon’s proposal to acquire Catamaran Ventures’ entire stake in Prione Business Services Pvt. Ltd., the joint venture between Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy’s Catamaran Ventures and the US-based e-commerce giant.

Prione Business Services houses Cloudtail, one of the largest retailers on the e-commerce firm’s India.

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Ministry of Education releases Report on Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2020-21

Ministry of Education has released of the report on Unified District Information System for Education Plus 2020-21 on school education of India. The UDISE+ system of online data collection from the schools was developed by Department of School Education & Literacy in 2018-19 to overcome the issues related to erstwhile practice of manual data filling in paper format.

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Karnataka govt launches programme to provide 5 lakh jobs to women

Minister of Higher Education, Electronics, IT-BT, S&T and Skill Development Dr C N Aswath Narayan has launched Women@Work (W@W) programme with an aim to provide five lakh jobs within 2026 to women with necessary employable skills.

The new initiative that was also held as part of the Karnataka digital economy mission programme.

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