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- Central government plans to bar domestic Reverse Osmosis systems in places where tap water meets Bureau of Indian Standards norms.
- Finance Minister announced that the government was abolishing an anti-dumping duty on imports of Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA).
- ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar, develops classical Swine Fever (CSF) Cell culture Vaccine.
- CSF is one of the most important diseases of pigs causing high mortality.
- NASA's Christina Koch returned to Earth safely after completing the longest-ever single spaceflight by a woman.
- She spent 328 days (11 months) on the International Space Station (ISS).
- Western Railways launched out branding of electric locomotives for the first time.
- This will help the Railways earn additional revenue of 1.05 crores.
- The VIMSAR, a major public healthcare center for western Odisha and parts of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, has many death cases of farmers.
- The reason behind these deaths is the consumption of Paraquat — a herbicide used in agricultural fields.
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