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35 lakh citizens take part in “Gandagi Bharat Chhodo-
Madhya Pradesh” campaign
• As many as 35 lakh citizens took part in the massive “Gandagi Bharat
Chhodo-Madhya Pradesh campaign launched in 378 urban bodies from
August 16 to 30 in the state.
• In order to give shape to the Prime Minister’s call, Urban Development
and Housing Minister Shri Bhupendra Singh instructed to convert this
campaign into a mass campaign. Work was undertaken by dividing the
campaign into five themes.
• The campaign was divided into five themes.
• First theme was – Cleanliness Oath and cleanliness and maintenance of
personal toilets.
single-use plastic along with recycle, re-use and reducing non-utility items
and plastic.
• Third - Cleanliness in Covid conditions, biomedical waste, disposal of used
masks, sanitization and cleanliness of Covid Quarantine Centres and
special sanitation campaign for their toilets.
• Fourth - Separation of waste from sources of houses and to prevent harmful
wastes such as sanitary pads, diapers and medicines, etc. from being mixed
up with the common waste
• Fifth theme was- launching a special cleanliness campaign for public
places and public toilets. The goal of each theme was to reach out to more
citizens and make them aware.
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India ranks in top 50 countries for 1st time in Global Innovation Index
• India ranked in the top 50 countries for the first time in the Global
Innovation Index, which was released today. India jumped four
positions to rank at 48th since 2019.
• The index compiled by World Intellectual Property Index (WIPO)
presented the latest global trends and annual innovation ranking for
131 countries.
• Moving up four positions since last year, India became the third most
innovative lower middle economy in the world
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• Government has blocked 118 Mobile Apps including PUBG which are
prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, Defence of India,
Security of State and Public Order
• PUBG MOBILE Nordic Map: Livik, PUBG MOBILE LITE, WeChat
Work, WeChat reading, Cyber Hunter, LifeAfter and Warpath are
among the 118 banned mobile apps.
• The decision to ban such Apps was taken by the Ministry of
Electronics and Information Technology
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Cabinet gives nod to 'Mission Karmayogi', National Programme for Civil Services
Capacity Building
Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building.
• The scheme will lay the foundation for capacity building for Civil
Servants so they remain entrenched in Indian culture while they learn
from best practices across the world.
• Mission Karmayogi aims to prepare the Indian Civil Servants for the
future by making them more creative, constructive, imaginative,
innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling,
transparent and technology-enabled.
• The Capacity Building Commission has been proposed with a view to
ensure a uniform approach in managing and regulating the capacity
building ecosystem on collaborative and co-sharing basis.
• To cover around 46 lakh Central employees, a sum of Rs 510.86 crore
will be spent over a period of 5 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
• The expenditure is partly funded by multilateral assistance to the tune
of USD 50 million.
• A wholly owned Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) will be set up.
• The SPV will create and operationalize the content , market place and
manage key business services of iGOT-Karmayogi platform.
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Rajeev Kumar assumes charge as new Election Commissioner of India
• Mr Rajeev Kumar today assumed charge as the new Election
Commissioner of the country. A 1984 batch IAS officer, Mr Kumar
retired as the Finance Secretary.
Mr Kumar joins the
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India, Russia declared joint winners of 2020 Online FIDE Chess Olympiad
• India and Russia were declared joint winners of the 2020 Online
FIDE Chess Olympiad after the final was marred by internet
disconnection last night.
• Russia were initially declared winners after two Indian players, Nihal
Sarin and Divya Deshmukh, lost out on time in the final after
suffering a disconnection with the server
• India had appealed against the controversial decision.
• However, the international chess federation Fide's president Arkady
Dvorkovich decided to award the gold medal to both the teams.
• This was the first time Fide was holding the Olympiad in an online
format.
• India had reached the finals of the FIDE Chess Olympiad for the first
time.
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PM Modi Inaugurates Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University
In Jhansi:
administration buildings of the Rani Lakshmi Bai
(RLB) Central Agricultural University. Named after the iconic freedom
fighter, Rani Lakshmi Bai, the RLB University is located in Jhansi, Uttar
Pradesh.

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