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Who has won the 'World Health Summit Startup' award 2018?
Roopam Sharma, a 23-year old Indian scientist, won the World Health Summit Startup
award, 2018.
He won for his invention, Manovue – the world’s first intelligent personal assisting
system for the visually impaired.
He is the youngest person to be recognized as one of the top innovators under 35 by
the MIT Tech Review in 2016.
Fertiliser major IFFCO announced that it has been ranked as the biggest
cooperative in the world by 'Word Cooperative Monitor' report 2018. The International
Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social
Enterprises (Euricse) publish the world cooperative monitor report. The report was based
on the ratio of turnover over GDP per capita.
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Which country is the most outward migrants in 2017 according to ADB report?
India's Sourav Kothari defeated Peter Gilchrist of Singapore 1134-944 to clinch the
2018 World Billiards Championship title at Leeds in the UK. The former national and Asian
Billiards champion Kothari was pipped at the post for the coveted World Billiards crown on
two occasions in the last two years.
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Which naval ship launched as a training ship for Indian Coast Guard?
JP Nadda, Minister for Health and Family Welfare addressed the ‘Second Plenary
Session of ‘2nd International Conference on Primary Health Care towards UHC &
SDGs’, at Astana, Kazakhstan.
The conference aims to renew the commitment to primary health care to achieve
universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Mr Nadda spoke on the theme “The Future of Primary Health Care”.
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IDFC Bank is planning to change the bank's name. Which among the following will be the
new name of IDFC Bank?
IDFC Bank proposed to change its name to 'IDFC First Bank Ltd' in the wake of its
amalgamation with the non-banking financial company Capital First.
The decision was taken during the meeting of the Board of Directors of IDFC Bank.
The proposal now needs the approval of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
10
'Experiencing North East’ festival begun at which of the following places?
The ‘Experiencing North East’ festival depicting the uniqueness of North Eastern
culture is being organised at India International Centre, Delhi from 27th-31st
October 2018.
The festival is a part of Destination North East series.
It is being organised by the North Eastern Council (NEC), Ministry of Development of
North Eastern Region (DoNER) in collaboration with India International Centre.
