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1
The prestigious WHO World No Tobacco Day 2017 Award for extraordinary contribution towards tobacco control is awarded to?
Delhi government's additional director of health S K Arora has been awarded the
prestigious WHO World No Tobacco Day 2017 Award for his extraordinary contribution
towards tobacco control.Tobacco prevalence in Delhi has come down by 6.5% in the past
six years.The National Health Policy 2017 has set targets of relative reduction in tobacco
prevalence by 15% by 2020 and 30% by 2025.
2
Who has been elected as the President of Mali in 2018?
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been re-elected as President of Mali after
beating opposition candidate. Keita will serve his second five-year term as Malian leader.
Keita will take office on September 4, 2018. Mali is a landlocked nation home to at least 20
ethnic groups where the majority of people live on less than $2 a day.
Rajasthan will observe September as the "month of nutrition" to create awareness among people living in the state. From next month, students of Class 1 to 8 of government schools will be given milk daily instead of thrice a week. The government had introduced a scheme to provide milk to students in government schools thrice a week last month. From September, the students will get milk on a daily basis for which additional funds of Rs 203 crore will be allocated.
In the month of nutrition awareness in rural as well as urban areas will be created for nutrition. Besides,students in the age group of 3-6 years, adolescent girls and pregnant women registered with Anganwadi centres will also be provided milk thrice a week and the government will allocate Rs 100 crore for this.
The chief minister also announced two per cent interest subsidy to the farmers who repay loans taken from cooperative banks on time.
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A female tiger, brought from Madhya Pradesh's Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve was
released in Satkosia Tiger Reserve. Name of the tigress is ?
A female tiger, brought from Madhya Pradesh's Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve was
released in Satkosia Tiger Reserve.The name of the tigress is 'Sundari'.A male tiger was
also brought from Madhya Pradesh's Kanha National Park to Satkosia Tiger Reserve.
Satkosia Tiger Reserve is a tiger reserve located in the Angul district of Odisha.
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The Saudi government is going to introduce a free-of-cost facility for the pilgrims of hajj in 2018. Which facility will be introduced by the Saudi government?
Saudi Arabia successfully tested nap-pods. The nap-pods will be provided free of cost. It aims at providing a place to rest for the pilgrims who cannot afford to book hotels on site during hajj.
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Which of the following city will host Shooting World Cup in 2020?
New Delhi has been granted hosting rights of the Combined ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup, to be held before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
9
Who has won the silver medal at the UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships,
2018?
Teen cyclist Esow Alben won the silver medal at the UCI Junior Track Cycling
World Championships in Switzerland. This is India’s first-ever medal at any cycling World
Championships. Alban became the Junior World No. 1 this July 2018 after becoming the
first Indian to win a gold medal at the Asian Junior Track Cycling Championships.
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Where was the 11th World Hindi Conference inaugurated on 18th August, 2018?
The 11th World Hindi Conference, an event aimed at expanding the reach of the
Hindi language at a global level, was inaugurated in Mauritius on 18th August, 2018. The
theme of the conference for the year 2018 is “Hindi World and Indian Culture”. World Hindi
Conference was started in 1975 to make the Hindi language a medium of service and
knowledge.
