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The first ever joint exercise between the special forces of the Indian Army and the Egyptian Army named ‘Exercise Cyclone-I’.
The Joint Training Exercise is in progress at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. This is the first exercise of its kind bringing the special forces of both the nations on a common platform.

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Over 300 intellectuals from India and abroad released the Bhopal Declaration after discussing the G-20 agenda in the meeting of Think-20 under G20 in Bhopal.
The Bhopal Declaration made an appeal to focus more on inclusive development. It also emphasized promoting traditional medicine systems like AYUSH and encouraging value-oriented development in infrastructure development.

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, has awarded 425 million dollars to Boeing Company for the agency’s sustainable flight demonstrator project.
Under the project, Boeing will work with NASA to build, test, and fly a full-scale demonstrator aircraft and validate technologies aimed at lowering emissions. NASA will invest 425 million dollars, while Boeing and its partners will contribute the remainder of the agreement funding.

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The India-Bangladesh Friendship pipeline (IBFPL) will start supplying diesel to Bangladesh on an experimental basis for June this year.
About 131.5 kilometre long pipeline has been constructed for importing diesel from India. Out of this, 126.5 kilometre pipeline is in Bangladesh and 5 kilometre line is in India. The international pipeline will carry diesel from the Siliguri based marketing terminal of the Numaligarh Refinery Limited to Parbatipur depot of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC).

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India has sent financing assurances to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It thereby becomes the first of Sri Lanka’s creditors to officially back the crisis-hit island nation’s debt restructure programme.
India’s move takes Sri Lanka one step closer to a crucial USD 2.9-billion package from the IMF.