World Rabies Day: 28th September
ii. The theme for the World Rabies Day – Educate. Vaccinate. Eliminate.
iii. The day is annually celebrated to raise awareness about rabies prevention and to highlight progress in defeating the disease.
India jumps 16 places in global competitiveness ranking
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ii. Switzerland has topped the list for the 8th straight time.
Typhoon Megi Hits Taiwan
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ii. It is equivalent to Category 4 tropical cyclone.
Cabinet approves MoU with Singapore for industrial property cooperation
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ii. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for industrial property cooperation between the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, approved by the Cabinet.
Project Saksham: 5 things to know about new indirect tax network of CBEC
i. Project Saksham, a new indirect tax network of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), has been approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
ii. The total cost of the project is estimated to be Rs 2256 crore, which will be incurred over a period of 7 years.
Special trees in Delhi to get ‘natural heritage’ tag
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ii. Some of the trees in the list are banyan, ailanthus, mango, arjuna, and ashok.
British woman, 26, becomes one of world’s youngest airline captains
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ii. She flies Airbus A319 and A320 planes to around 100 destinations, such as Reykjavik, Tel Aviv and Marrakesh.
Microsoft Signed Adobe For Azure Cloud Computing Services
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Jim Yong Kim re-appointed as World Bank President
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ii. The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs.
Obama nominates ambassador to Cuba
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ii. The new ambassador DeLaurentis had been working at the new US embassy in Havana, which opened since 2014.
IPS officer OP Singh taking over as the new Director General of CISF
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ii. Prior to this serving as the Director General of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)
Telangana ties up with ISRO for bandwidth to telecast coaching programmes
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ii. To start with, the TV channel will air coaching programmes for students appearing for various competitive examinations to get government jobs.
Uttam Singh to be honoured with ‘Lata Mangeshkar Award’
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ii. The award carries a citation, a trophy and 500000 rupees in cash.
i. The former Israel’s defining political figures and a Nobel peace prize laureate, Shimon Peres has died at the age of 93.
Shimon Peres, former Israeli president, dies aged 93
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ii. He had served twice as a prime minister and once as a president.