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20/03/2021

Over 42,000 government schools across the country do not have drinking water facilities, while more than 15,000 schools have no toilets, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' said on Thursday. The minister quoted the statistics from Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) in response to a written question in the Rajya Sabha.

"States and UTs have been repeatedly advised to ensure that all the schools, including those under the non-government sector (private, aided schools, etc.) in their jurisdiction should have provision for separate toilets for boys and girls and safe and adequate drinking water facilities for all children," the minister added.

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19/03/2021

S Dhanalakshmi of Tamil Nadu, who had stunned Dutee Chand in the 100m final, on Thursday beat another star athlete Hima Das in the 200m semifinal heats by running a meet record time of 23.26 seconds in the Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships in Patiala on Thursday.

Dhanalakshmi's time bettered PT Usha's long-standing meet record of 22.80 seconds set in Chennai in 1998.

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19/03/2021

The Supreme Court today termed the cancellation of around three crore ration cards by the Centre due to non-linking with Aadhaar card as too serious, and sought response from the Central government and all states on the issue.
A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian said this matter should not be treated as adversarial as it is "too serious a matter".

The bench said the matter will be put up for final hearing.

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19/03/2021

A US woman, who was administered the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine while pregnant recently, recently gave birth to a baby with antibodies against COVID-19. Pediatricians have claimed it to be the first such known case.

She delivered a healthy, strong, and full-term girl three weeks later. The blood sample of the baby girl, taken immediately following her birth, showed the presence of antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the study noted.

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19/03/2021

Comment about how much hours do you sleep in a day.

World Sleep Day is a global awareness event held annually and hosted by World Sleep Society since 2008.

World Sleep Day is intended to be a celebration of sleep and a call to action on important issues related to sleep, including medicine, education, social aspects and driving. It is organized by the World Sleep Day Committee of World Sleep Society and aims to lessen the burden of sleep problems on society through better prevention and management of sleep disorders.

World Sleep Day is held the Friday before Spring Vernal Equinox of each year (exact date changes annually, but always on a Friday).

World Sleep Day has drawn attention from media and celebrities around the globe.

More than 88 countries around the world have participated in World Sleep Day.

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18/03/2021

More than 60% of the posts reserved for Other Backward Classes and Scheduled Caste faculty members at the Indian Institutes of Management across the country remain vacant, and that number is more than 80% for faculty posts reserved for Scheduled Tribes.

This data was revealed by Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank as a written response to a Lok Sabha question asked by three Congress MPs. Nishank also said that more than 50% of faculty positions for OBCs remain vacant in all central higher education institutions on average, as do more than 40% of posts for SCs and STs.

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18/03/2021

The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020 to amend the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 was passed by voice vote. The bill was passed by Lok Sabha about a year ago.

Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill to raise the upper limit for permitting abortions from the present 20 weeks to 24 weeks for "special categories of women" including r**e survivors, victims of in**st, minors and the differently-abled.

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said the amendments in the bill have been made after studying global practices and wide consultation within the country.

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18/03/2021

The largest floating solar farm of the world is being built in Singapore. The country has resorted to set up the energy plants off the coasts and reservoirs across it.
This floating solar farm is being set up in the light that despite being one of the smallest countries across the world, it is one of the biggest per capita carbon dioxide emitters in India. Thus, to cater to the issue of climate change and to cut the greenhouse gas emission it is building the floating solar farm. This project is being built by Sembcorp Industries.

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17/03/2021

Nokia has announced plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs within two years to trim costs and invest more in research capabilities, as the Finnish telecoms group seeks to step up its challenge to Sweden's Ericsson and China's Huawei.

After taking over the top job last year, Chief Executive Pekka Lundmark has been making changes to recover from product missteps under the company's previous management that hurt its 5G ambitions and dragged on its shares.

Nokia currently has 90,000 employees, and has cut thousands of jobs following its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in 2016.

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17/03/2021

Nokia has announced plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs within two years to trim costs and invest more in research capabilities, as the Finnish telecoms group seeks to step up its challenge to Sweden's Ericsson and China's Huawei.

After taking over the top job last year, Chief Executive Pekka Lundmark has been making changes to recover from product missteps under the company's previous management that hurt its 5G ambitions and dragged on its shares.

Nokia currently has 90,000 employees, and has cut thousands of jobs following its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in 2016.

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17/03/2021

Elon Musk has a new title at Tesla: “Technoking.”

The electric automaker announced the head-scratching sobriquet in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, along with chief financial officer Zach Kirkhorn’s new position as “Master of Coin.”

“Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer,” the filing concludes

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16/03/2021

The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as India's second biggest oil supplier last month, as refiners boosted cheaper U.S. crude purchases to record levels and to offset supply cuts from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+), data from trade sources showed.

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23% decline in purchases to a five-month low of 867,500 bpd, the data showed.

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16/03/2021

The Indian government is drafting a new policy for e-commerce retailers in India that will require Amazon, Flipkart and others to treat sellers equally. The new draft is also aimed at bringing more transparency in terms of operations in India.

The draft says, "E-commerce operators must ensure equal treatment of all sellers/vendors registered on their platforms and not adopt algorithms which result in prioritising select vendors/sellers."

Notably, the new e-commerce policy will apply to Amazon, Flipkart and all other online retailers that follow a similar model.

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16/03/2021

India observes National Vaccination Day to convey to the people of the country the importance of vaccination.

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccines have brought the world together in a way that we have never seen before. India has emerged a leader in the vaccination drive against the Covid-19 pandemic.

In India, National Vaccination Day is celebrated every year on March 16. The day is widely known as National Immunisation Day. The National Vaccination Day was first observed on March 16, 1995.

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15/03/2021

The startup - Demokratika- launched the application, BolSubol, which has economic and political information about all the constituencies in India for over 60 years on average, they claimed.

Ahead of the assembly elections in four states and a union territory, a startup firm has unveiled a mobile application with poll statistics and data on the country's economy to help voters take fact-based decisions before exercising their franchise, company officials said.

Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry will go to polls on April 6, while assembly elections in Assam will be held in three phases starting on March 27.

The eight-phased polls in West Bengal will be held between March 27 and April 29.

Votes will be counted on May 2.

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15/03/2021

World Consumer Rights Day is observed every year on March 15. The day is marked for raising global awareness about consumer rights and needs so as to enable the consumer to fight against social injustices.

The World Consumer Rights Day 2021 theme is to gather all the consumers in a fight to "Tackle Plastic Pollution". Currently, the world is facing a major plastic pollution crisis.

Even though plastic is useful in many ways, yet the consumption and production of it have become unsustainable which calls for action from all the consumers.

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15/03/2021

Monday Morning Thoughts!
Monday is a day of beginnings and new starts.So let’s make this Monday one of the good ones. One where you demonstrate the power of a positive attitude and rocket toward your goals.

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13/03/2021

Voot Select, one of the latest entrant in the premium video-on-demand platforms, has completed one year. Voot Select is available in two packages starting at ₹99 per month, and ₹999 per year.

Voot Select reached one million active direct paying subscribers in less than a year of its launch, the company said in a release. The platform offers content 24 hours before broadcasting on TV, and a 24-hour access to the live channel of Big Boss.

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13/03/2021

The Japanese scientific research institute called RIKEN and Fujitsu started developing the “Fugaku” six years ago. It is the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Fugaku has been named after an alternative name for Mount Fuji. Now, this supercomputer is fully ready and developed in Japan and is now available for research use.

It started development in the year 2014 as the successor to the K computer. It is built with the Fujitsu A64FX microprocessor.

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13/03/2021

Captain of the India women’s team, Mithali Raj on Friday became the first woman cricketer from the country and only the second overall to score 10000 international runs.

Mithali, playing her 212th ODI for India, achieved the landmark during the third match of the bilateral series against South Africa, with a boundary off medium-pacer Anne Bosch before getting out the next ball.

Mithali has scored 663 runs from 10 Tests with a highest of 214 at an average of 51. In T20Is, Mithali averages an impressive 37.52 having scored 2364 runs from 89 matches. ODI cricket is where Mithali is at her best, having scored 6974 runs from 212 matches, including seven centuries and 54 fifties.

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12/03/2021

Apple's iPhone 12, a major hit in the country, is now being manufactured locally in India. And the made-in-India iPhone 12 model will be available for purchase starting April-May this year, confirm analysts and industry sources.

"Apple is dedicated to making the best products and services in the world to delight our customers. We are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customers," said Apple.

The iPhone 12 is being manufactured at the Indian arm of Taiwan-based Foxconn, the contract manufacturers for Apple, which already manufactures popular Apple models including the iPhone XR and iPhone 11.

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12/03/2021

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12/03/2021

Chinese smartphone company Vivo will sponsor the Indian Premium League cricket tournament, making a comeback seven months after the deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India was suspended during a standoff at the Line of Actual Control.

“Vivo is back as the title sponsor of IPL and that is very encouraging and exciting for us because IPL is the biggest property in India and is a perfect amalgamation of sports and entertainment, so we are looking forward to the 9th of April, when IPL begins,” Vivo India Director Brand Strategy Nipun Marya told the news agency.

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11/03/2021

Pakistan will be getting 45 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine, being manufactured in India, under the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi), for inoculating 45 million people.

The international vaccine alliance, GAVI, will provide free Covishield vaccine doses to Pakistan. These Covid-19 vaccine doses are among those bought by GAVI, which works to increase access to immunisation in poor countries, from India.

As per officials, Pakistan would receive the first batch of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India by mid-March and the rest of it is expected to arrive by June.

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11/03/2021

The brand value of the Indian Premier League (IPL) went down for the first time in six years - by 3.6 per cent over one year. From Rs 47,500 crore in 2019, it fell to Rs 45,800 crore in 2020, the first decline since 2014, a report said on Wednesday.

And in terms of US dollars, IPL ecosystem valuation in 2019 was $6,780 million while in 2020 it was $6,190 million -- a change of 8.7 per cent, from Duff & Phelps, a Kroll Business, which specialises in brand valuation, said in its report.

"Year 2020 was a challenging one with economic distress and uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The sports economy was not immune to this crisis, and the pandemic disrupted the sporting calendar for the year, with a string of tournaments being postponed or cancelled."

IPL was relocated to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the Indian government had paused sporting activities due to Covid-19. But the Indian cricket board was keen to organise the IPL, and that's why the tournament was shifted, like it did in 2009, when it was played in South Africa.

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11/03/2021

Amitabh Bachchan will be the first Indian to be honoured with the FIAF Award. Hollywood filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan will present the award to the veteran actor.

As per a report in The Times of India, Martin said, "Safeguarding cinema is a global cause. Amitabh Bachchan’s advocacy for preserving India’s film legacy has been exceptional. With a career spanning over five decades, he is a celebrated actor who has put the considerable weight of his reputation behind the cause of film preservation in India and the entire subcontinent. They could not have chosen a more deserving individual to recognise this year."

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10/03/2021

To facilitate the privatisation of public sector banks, the government is likely to bring amendments to two legislations later this year.

Amendments would be required in the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970 and the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1980 for privatisation, sources said.

These Acts led to the nationalisation of banks in two phases and provisions of these laws have to be changed for the privatisation of banks, they said.

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