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Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare is set to launch a programme on “Nutrition Smart Village” to strengthen the Poshan Abhiyan. This scheme is a part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
This initiative aims to reach out to 75 villages across India through the network of All India Coordinated Research Project on Women in Agriculture (AICRP-WIA). It aims to promote nutritional awareness, education and behavioural change in rural areas, using local recipe to overcome malnutrition and implementing nutrition-sensitive agriculture.

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Sri Lanka formed India-Sri Lanka Parliamentary Friendship group, with senior members of Lankan parliament to promote bilateral ties with India.
The country had earlier decided to buy fertiliser from India after rejecting the Chinese fertiliser consignment. The India- Sri Lanka Parliamentary Friendship Association for the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka was established recently.

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The UN peacekeeping chief warned about the crisis in Africa’s Sahel region. He highlighted that Millions of people are displaced.
He also warned about the lack of access of schools to children and lack of primary health care to the people. He was speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on the G5 Sahel force. It was set up by five African nations namely Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mauritania in 2017 to fight the terrorist threat in the Sahel region.

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World Pneumonia Day is observed every year on November 12. Over 100 children organisations joined the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia to hold the first World Pneumonia Day.
Under the universal immunisation programme, the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) programme was launched in India. The programme aims to spread awareness and reduce mortality and morbidity among children due to pneumonia. In India, it is estimated that 1.2 million children die before 5 years and 15.9% of deaths are due to pneumonia.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s satellite Internet service Starlink has launched a new smaller and rectangular dish to connect with satellite constellation in low Earth orbit.
It is a thinner and lighter-weight option than the circular dish that Starlink beta users have been testing over the last year. Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet project, aims to launch about 12,000 satellites into low Earth orbit where they can provide broadband internet coverage to people on the ground.