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Under the Swachh Bharat Mission of the Ministry of Jal Shakti, an event with a duration of a fortnight is observed to focus on the issues of Swachhata.
Named as ‘Swachhata Pakhwada’, the event was started in the year 2016 and an annual calendar is provided to the Ministries with a fortnight allotted to them. Recently, the Department of Fertilizers is observing Swachhta Pakhwada from September 1-15.

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Indian Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, and his counterparts from Australia and Japan attended the Australia-India-Japan Economic Ministers’ Joint meeting on Supply Chains Resilience.
As per the joint statement released, the countries have decided to launch an initiative to build a resilient supply chain in Indo-Pacific region. They have also decided to keep their markets open and thereby creating a transparent trade environment. This is expected to reduce China’s dominance.

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ICICI Prudential Life Insurance has recently launched an AI-powered voice chatbot named ‘LiGo’, on Google Assistant.
The customers and policy holders can use this service to resolve their queries on products by giving simple voice commands. As per the company, customers can activate ‘Google Assistant’ on their Android smartphones and say their policy number or mobile number for details on their policies.

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As per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the CEO of the leading space company SpaceX, Elon Musk is now the third-richest person in the world.
The 49-year old billionaire has surpassed Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Elon Musk’s net worth raised to USD115.4 billion while that of Zuckerberg is USD 110.8 billion. The first and the second positions were featured by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos respectively.

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The third round of the monthly sero-prevalence survey began in the National Capital Region, to analyse the situation of the Covid-19 spread.
Under the survey, using the blood samples, the presence of antibodies for Covid-19 will be checked, which will explain the extent of the spread of the virus. In the last survey, it was found that 29.1 per cent of people had antibodies. This time, the sample size will be 17,000.