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The Union Cabinet approved the setting up of the National Land Monetization Corporation (NLMC) to monetise surplus land and building assets of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) and other Government agencies.
NLMC will be fully owned by the Centre, under the administrative jurisdiction of the Finance Ministry. It will have an initial authorised share capital of Rs 5,000 crore and paid-up share capital of Rs 150 crore.

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The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN recently suspended the observer status of Russia. It is the international scientific laboratory which has the world’s largest atom smasher.
CERN announced that its 23 member states condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine is one of seven associate member states, and Russia, like the US, Japan and the European Union, had observer status in CERN.

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The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (WHO GCTM) in Jamnagar, Gujarat under the Ministry of AYUSH.
A Host Country agreement was signed between the Government of India and the World Health Organization (WHO). This would be the first and only global out-posted Centre for traditional medicine across the world.

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The inaugural session of National round of third edition of National Youth Parliament Festival (NYPF) 2022 was recently held. Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Anurag Thakur addressed the session.
Theme of this year’s National Youth Parliament Festival is ‘be the voice of New India and find solutions and contribute to Policy’. The event is organised to hear the voice of the youth, who will join various careers in upcoming years.

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Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) report 2020-21 on school education of India was released recently.
As per the report, the number of students enrolled in school education from primary to higher secondary has improved to 25.38 crore in the 2020-21 session. Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) has improved in 2020-21 at all levels. The report also adds that as many as 39.7 lakh students of government aided, private school students have shifted to Government schools.