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Indian Navy’s stealth frigate INS Tarkash, visited Djibouti and conducted a Maritime Partnership Exercise with Sudan Navy ships Almazz and Nimer in the Red Sea near the Sudan Naval Base.
This is a part of its long range overseas deployment. It is also on a deployment to Rio de Janerio, Brazil.

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the first ever ‘Artificial Intelligence in Defence’ (AIDef) symposium and exhibition in New Delhi.
It was organised by Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence, to showcase the cutting edge AI-enabled solutions developed by the Services, research organisations, Industry and start-ups and launch of AI products for the market. A ‘GenNext AI’ Solutions Competition was also organised.

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The Ministry of Culture is the nodal ministry for the 75-week-long Amrit Mahosav celebrations.
It has identified poems, writings and publications that the British government banned and put them as catalogue, which has been published on the website by the National Archives of India. These works are in nine regional languages Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Odiya, Punjabi, Sindhi, Telugu, Tamil and Urdu.

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Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe passed away he was shot at a political campaign event in the city of Nara.
Abe’s speech was part of a campaign for his former party, the Liberal Democratic Party, as upper house elections in Japan are due to take place in this week.

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As per the recent notification by the Finance Ministry, sale of the Indian national flag is exempt from the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
The Indian national flag, irrespective of whether machine made or of polyester, is exempt from the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Hand-woven, hand-spun national flags made of cotton, silk, wool or Khadi are already exempt from GST.