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The Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Karmayogi Prarambh Module, an online orientation course prepared for government employees.
He also launched the programme of providing appointment letters to more than 71,000 youth, under the Pradhan Mantri Rozgar Mela.

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Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy inaugurated the ‘Manipur Sangai Festival 2022’ at the Sangai Ethnic Park.
The 10-day-long festival will be held in 13 venues across the north-eastern state till November 30. The festival is celebrated as the Festival of Oneness to achieve unity through the participation of all indigenous communities of the state.

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The 4th edition of Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue (IPRD) has been inaugurated in New Delhi on the theme of “Operationalising the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative”.
IPRD is an apex level international annual conference of the Indian Navy. The National Maritime Foundation is the knowledge partner and chief organizer of the event.

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Purnima Devi Barman, an Assam-based wildlife biologist, was awarded the ‘Champions of the Earth’ award this year.
It is presented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Barman won the award in the ‘Entrepreneurial Vision’ category, for her work in protecting the ‘Greater adjutant stork’, called ‘hargila’ in Assamese.

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India’s Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced a National Suicide Prevention Strategy.
The country’s first of its kind policy has time-bound action plans and multi-sectoral collaborations to achieve reduction in suicide mortality by 10% by 2030. It seeks to establish effective surveillance mechanisms for suicide within the next three years, establish psychiatric outpatient departments in all districts within the next five years, and to integrate a mental well-being curriculum in all educational institutions within the next eight years.