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Meta India head Ajit Mohan steps down

Facebook-parent Meta’s India head, Ajit Mohan, ended his four-year stint at the social media giant abruptly to become the Asia-Pacific head of rival Snap.

Mohan, who joined Meta in January 2019, had served as the founding chief executive officer of Disney’s streaming platform Hotstar for four years before joining the social media giant.

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India hosted the 2nd BIMSTEC Agriculture Ministers meeting

India hosted the 2nd Agriculture Ministerial-level meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) under the chairmanship of the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar. Agriculture ministers of Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand participated in the meeting.

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BIMSTEC headquarters is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Centre formulates action plan to promote exports of millets and value-added products of millets

To promote shipment of nutri-cereals, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry through its apex agricultural export promotion body, APEDA has prepared a comprehensive strategy to promote Indian millets exports across the globe commencing December 2022.

The proposal of India that was supported by 72 countries lead to UNGA declaring 2023 as International Year of Millets in 2021.

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India exports millets products worth of USD 34.32 million during 2021-22.

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MoHUA launches Transport4All through digital innovation challenge stage-2 and Citizen Perception Survey-2022

The Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep S Puri launched the Transport4All challenge stage-2 and Citizen Perception Survey 2022 at an event in New Delhi.

The Transport4All challenge is an initiative of the MoHUA that aims at enhancing the mobility experience of citizens.

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NIIFL signs pact with JBIC to enhance Japanese investments into India

NIIFL signs pact with JBIC to enhance Japanese investments into India. JBIC and the GoI will invest in the India-Japan Fund, which will make equity investments in environmental preservation and low carbon emission strategies.

The MOU outlines a partnership framework between NIIF and JBIC, which is considering the establishment a bilateral India-Japan Fund (IJF).

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The Rs 40,000-crore NIIF, a quasi-sovereign wealth fund, was set up in December 2015.

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SEBI panel suggests steps to boost exchange governance

The panel chaired by G Mahalingam was tasked with proposing governance norms at Market Infrastructure Institutions such as stock exchanges, depositories and clearing houses.

Organisational classification at MIIs should be based on functions and categorised into three verticals—critical operations; regulatory, compliance and risk management; and other functions.

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Indian Army launches single window facility ‘Veerangana Sewa Kendra’ for welfare and grievances redressal of Veer Naris

Taking yet another step in leveraging technology, the Indian Army with a motto of “Taking Care of Our Own, No Matter What” launched this facility.

The VSK will be available as a service to the Indian Army Veterans Portal www.indianarmyveterans.gov.in. The system caters to registering grievances with tracking, monitoring, and regular feedback to the applicant.

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National Fisheries Development Board awarded “India Agribusiness Awards 2022”

National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB), Hyderabad was one of the organisations to be awarded with “India Agribusiness Awards 2022” for the best Agribusiness Award under Fisheries Sector for the exemplary work done in fisheries sector.

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PV Sindhu Launches Fit India School Week Mascots Toofan & Toofani

Fourth edition of Fit India School Week to kick off on 15th November 2022. Fit India Movement, which was launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in the year 2019, kicked off its annual ‘Fit India School Week’ programme in December of that same year, and is dedicated to encouraging schools in inculcating fitness habits and increasing awareness about fitness and sports.

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Jitendra Singh dedicates to the nation, India’s first national repository for life science data-‘Indian Biological Data Center’

Jitendra Singh dedicated to the nation India’s first national repository for life science data-‘Indian Biological Data Center’ (IBDC) at Faridabad, Haryana.

Jitendra Singh said, as per the BIOTECH-PRIDE guidelines of the Government of India, IBDC is mandated to archive all life science data generated from publicly-funded research in India.

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Ministry of Rural Development signs MoU to support effective governance systems under DAY- NRLM

Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) has signed MoU with Gurugram-based Veddis Foundation to support setting up of effective governance systems under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM), strengthen State capacities, establish innovative models and implement the national strategy for Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI) and SHG convergence.

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Nation-wide Campaign for Promotion of Digital Life Certificate

The Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India has launched a Nation-wide Campaign for Promotion of Digital Life Certificate for Central Government pensioners for promoting the Life certificate through Digital mode and popularizes the Face Authentication technique.

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Jeevan Pramaan is a Life Certificate program affiliated with Aadhaar for pensioners.

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DGFT notifies amended Foreign Trade Policy norms for export benefits on rupee receipts

DGFT notified norms for permitting exporters to avail benefits under the foreign trade policy, even on realisation in rupee. The DGFT, under the commerce ministry, has already allowed invoicing, payment and settlement of exports and imports in Indian rupee, a move aimed at facilitating trade in the domestic currency.

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Indian Railways accomplishes electrification of 82% of the total BG network

Indian Railways has embarked upon an ambitious plan of electrification of its complete Broad Gauge network which would not only result in a better fuel energy usage resulting in increased throughput, reduced fuel expenditure but also savings in precious foreign exchange.

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The Indian Railways has set a target of 100 % electrification of its network by Dec 2023.

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DigiLocker users can now digitally store health records and link them with Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA)

DigiLocker, the authentic documents exchange platform under the MeitY has successfully completed its second-level of integration with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM).

DigiLocker can be used now as a health locker for storing and accessing health records such as vaccination records, doctor prescriptions, lab reports, hospital discharge summaries etc.

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Digital Locker was launched on 1st July 2015.

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India saved $4.2 billion in fuel costs through solar power: Report

An amount of USD 4.2 billion has been saved by India in fuel costs through solar power generation in the first half of 2022, and 19.4 million tonnes of coal which would have further stressed an already strained domestic supply, according to a report 'The sunny side of Asia'.

The majority of the estimated savings were in China with $21 billion in fossil fuels imports.

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NPCI launches open source licence model for BHIM App to help banks launch their UPI apps

NPCI has announced the launch of an open source licence model for its BHIM App.

Under this initiative towards attaining the goal of ‘Digital Payments for All’, the NPCI will licence the source code of BHIM app to regulated entities which do not yet have a Unified Payments Interface (UPI) app of their own, to empower them to launch their own UPI app.

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BSNL gets Centre's nod to sign Rs 26,821 crore 4G deal with TCS: Report

The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has received the central government's nod to go ahead with Rs 26,281 crore deal with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), paving its way to launch 4G services in India. As reported by Economic Times (ET), TCS will set up the 4G lines and maintain the network for nine years.

BSNL will give Rs 10,000 crore worth of purchase orders to TCS soon.

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BSNL is a fully owned (10%) Government company.

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National Education Day: November 11

National Education Day is celebrated on November 11 every year to mark the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad served as the first Minister of Education of independent India from 1947 to 1958 in Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet.

This year, the theme for National Education Day is "Changing Course, Transforming Education."

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Neeraj Chopra becomes ‘Friendship Ambassador’ of Switzerland

Switzerland Tourism has appointed Olympic Gold medalist Neeraj Chopra as its Friendship Ambassador.

In this development, the athlete will promote the sporty, stunning and adventurous outdoors of Switzerland to Indian travellers.

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