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Department of Telecommunication, Ministry of Communication presents the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Telecom Skill Excellence Awards.
The Award scheme was originally launched in the year 2017, to recognise the successful telecom skilled people and to enable them apply telecom related solution in various fields like health and Education. This year’s awards were recently presented by the Communications Minister.

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Union External Affairs Minister of India S Jaishankar recently launched a book titled ‘Reporting India’ in Delhi. It describes the history of India since independence.
The book is written by Prem Prakash, Chairman of the Leading news agency, the Asian News International (ANI). He established the agency in the year 1971 and it was the first agency in India to syndicate video news.

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The Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the keynote address at ASSOCHAM Foundation Week 2020 via video conferencing.
During the occasion, he presented the ‘ASSOCHAM Enterprise of the Century Award’ to Ratan Tata, who received the award on behalf of the TATA Group. Ratan Tata served as the Chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Group. He is now heading various Charitable Trusts of the Group.

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The Indian cricket team has recently scored its lowest ever total in Test cricket against the Australian cricket team.
In the second innings of the first Test match, Indian team collapsed to 36 runs leaving 9 wickets in 21.2 overs. Indian Team had a 53-run lead in the first innings. India’s earlier lowest score was 42 in the year 1974 against England.

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The first spokesperson of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Madhav Govind Vaidya recently passed away.
The 97-year-old leader had earlier recovered from coronavirus infection. He also served as the former Chief Editor of the daily Tarun Bharat. He has a eight decade-old association with RSS, since he joined the movement in 1943.