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The Finance Ministry constituted an expert committee headed by former SEBI chief M. Damodaran to examine and suggest measures to address regulatory issues to scale up investments by venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE).
Other members of the committee include G. Mahalingam, former whole time member of SEBI and executive director of RBI; representatives from CBIC; Income tax Department; NCAER among others. FY23 budget proposed to set up such a committee.

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Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare launched National Lists of Essential Medicines (NLEM) 2022.
NLEM ensures accessibility of affordable quality medicines and helps in reduction in Out of Pocket Expenditure on healthcare for the citizens. 384 drugs have been included in this list with addition of 34 drugs, while 26 from the previous list have been dropped.

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah participated in the All-India Official Language Conference in Gujarat’s Surat.
The conference is being organised on the occasion of Hindi Day , which is celebrated annually on September 14 across the country.

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MeitY Startup Hub (MSH), an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), and Meta, announced the launch of an accelerator programme to accelerate XR technology startups across India.
The ‘XR Startup Program’ will support 40 early-stage start-ups working in XR technologies including Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) with a grant of Rs 20 lakhs each

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The sixth planet from the sun, Uranus appeared to pass directly behind Earth’s moon, going out of sight for three and a half hours.
The disappearing act is also known as the lunar occultation of Uranus. Only viewers in Europe, northern Africa and western Asia were at the exact right angle to see the phenomenon.