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- Tamilnadu government has won three awards for excellence under Union Government’s Poshan Abiyaan scheme.
- Poshan Abiyaan is a multi-ministerial convergence mission to attain malnutrition-free India and was launched in 2017.
- In a first in the history of Indian Metro rail projects, Pune Metro will get aluminium-bodied coaches. Thus far, Metros in the country have used stainless steel-bodied coaches.
- Aluminium coaches are lighter in weight, more energy efficient and have better aesthetics and will be manufactured in Kolkatta.
- The 9-Day National Tribal Festival “Aadi Mahotsav” is being held at Polo Ground, Leh-Ladakh from 17th August. It is organised jointly by Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India & Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED).
- Akilesh Ranjan Task Force for drafting a New Direct Tax Legislation has submitted its report and a draft of the new proposed version of the Income-tax law to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
- Clinical trials conducted amid an Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have identified two new drugs that can dramatically cut mortality from the disease - REGN-EB3 and mAb114.
- Researchers from Dresden University, Germany have developed a new self-calibrating, lens-less endoscope that produces three-dimensional (3D) images of objects smaller than a single cell.
- In the run-up to the UNFCC Conference of Parties (COP-25) meet to be held on December 2019, the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) has held its 28th Ministerial meeting on Climate Change from 14th to 16th August, 2019 at Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- South Korea's Lee Duck-hee has become the ‘first deaf player’ to win a match in the main draw of a tournament on the ATP Tour.
- He beat Switzerland's Henri Laaksonen at the Winston-Salem Open in North Carolina, USA.
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