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N Biren Singh Takes Oath As Manipur CM For Second Time

N Biren Singh was worn in as the chief minister of Manipur for the second time at the Raj Bhavan.

Singh, along with five cabinet ministers, were administered oath by Governor La Ganesan.

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Pushkar Singh Dhami gets second term in Uttarakhand, Pramod Sawant in Goa

Pushkar Singh Dhami will continue as the Uttarakhand chief minister.

In Goa, Pramod Sawant was unanimously elected the leader of the BJP legislature party, paving the way for him to take over as the chief minister for a second term.

(Retd.) Gurmit Singh- Hon'ble Governor of Uttarakhand

Shri P.S. Sreedharan Pillai - 22nd & current Governor of the State of Goa.

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World Water Day 2022: March 22

World Water Day is observed every year on March 22 to celebrate water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water.

This year, the theme for the day is "Groundwater, making the invisible visible".

The United Nations began observing World Water Day since 1993.

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NPCI set to launch UPI Lite for small value transactions in offline mode

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is set to launch UPI Lite, which would enable small value transactions in an offline mode.

At present, it will be near offline but will require a smartphone. It is set to go live with pilots in the next 1 week or 10 days.

NPCI has designed the UPI Lite – on-device wallet functionality for UPI user.

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Ministry of Civil Aviation confers with “Best Tableaux” Trophy for Republic Day 2022

Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) was conferred with “Best Tableaux” Trophy.

The award ceremony took place in Ministry itself with a small delegation of Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) officials present for the same.

Republic Day 2022 marks the first time when Ministry of Civil Aviation tableau took part.

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Kuwaiti becomes hottest place on earth, temperature reaches 53.2 degrees Celsius

Kuwait reached a scorching temperature of 53.2 degrees Celsius (127.7 degrees Fahrenheit), making it among the hottest places on earth.

It was so hot in Kuwait last summer that birds dropped dead from the sky. Sea horses boiled to death in the bay. Dead clams coated the rocks, their shells popped open like they’d been steamed.

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Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas Sets Triple Jump World Record

Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas bettered her own women’s triple jump world record with a leap of 15.74 metres to win gold at the World Indoor Championships.

The Olympic champion beat her previous outright best of 15.67 metres set at the Tokyo Games last year, as well as her indoor record of 15.43 metres, set in 2020.

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The Karnataka government created Dishaank app to make it easier to access land records.

The Survey Settlement and Land Records (SSLR) unit of Karnataka’s revenue department is making original land records more accessible through an app called Dishaank.

The Dishaank app was created as part of the Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications Center’s Geographical Information System (GIS) programme (KSRSAC).

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TCS appoints Rajesh Gopinathan as CEO; NG Subramaniam as COO

Tata Consultancy Services, a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm announced that Rajesh Gopinathan has been appointed as chief executive officer and managing director.

Mr Gopinathan takes over from N Chandrasekaran who has been appointed as the Chairman of Tata Sons, effective February 21, 2017.

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IIT Madras launches AquaMAP for improving water use in agriculture

The principal scientific advisor to the government of India,Vijay Raghavan, inaugurated a new water management and policy centre, AquaMAP, at IIT Madras that will focus on improving the agricultural water use efficiency.

IIT Madras is collaborating with IIT Dharwad around the broad theme of 'Data Science for Water Security and Agriculture Sustenance' and

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AquaMAP is a national water centre.

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NATO military exercises 'Cold Response 2022' kick off in Norway with 30,000 troops

Major military exercises involving 30,000 NATO troops and partner countries have kicked off in Norway as tensions escalate between the West and Russia over the Ukraine war.

Organised every two years, the naval, air and ground drills are held over vast swaths of Norway, including above the Arctic Circle.

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Exercise LAMITIYE 2022: India, Seychelles to kick-start 10-day military exercise from March 22

An Indian Army contingent arrived in Seychelles for the ninth edition of the Joint Military Exercise Lamitiye 2022 between the Indian Army and Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF).

The exercise is being conducted at the Seychelles Defence Academy (SDA) from March 22 to 31.

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PhonePe acquires freelance entrepreneur network GigIndia to strengthen enterprise offerings

Through the acquisition, PhonePe will integrate with itself the 1.5 million entrepreneurs, and over 100 enterprises as customers, besides the company’s employees. PhonePe will leverage GigIndia’s network of freelance microentrepreneurs to help corporates and enterprises acquire more customers and scale up their distribution channels.

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