India
India recently, surpassed the United State as the top buyer of Nigerian Crude oil. As per the recent statistics it has been that India has been buying more of Nigeria’s crude than the US over the last three months in year 2013.

Kudankulam atomic power plant
Kudankulam atomic power plant is the India’s first pressurized water reactor belonging to the light water reactor category.

Incheon
UNESCO announced that the committee in charge of international book industry named South Korea city of Incheon as the World Book Capital for the year 2015.
Incheon comes as the 15th city to be crowned with World Book Capital, after Bangkok in 2013 and Port Harcourt in 2014.

Karnataka
The Government of India signed an agreement with Asian Development Bank for a 60 million dollars loan as to improve urban services and to strengthen municipal
and project management in north Karnataka.

Carbon dioxide
The measurements by Curiosity rover of NASA, the most advanced spacecraft to land on Mars, the red planet, re-instated the fact that planet was composed of
mostly Carbon dioxide and a few other gases.

Amartya Sen
An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions authored by Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze was released recently. The book has been published by Penguin Books India.

Limiting the use of toxics
The Rotterdam Convention is a multilateral agreement that aims to promote shared responsibilities in relation to the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals and to contribute to the environmentally sound use of those chemicals by facilitating exchange of information about their characteristics.

Monaco
Monaco is the country which has highest expectancy rate in all over the world with 89.73 overall life expectancy at birth.

Nisha Desai Biswal
President Barack Obama nominated Nisha Desai Biswal, an accomplished Indian-American administrator, to head the South Asia Bureau in the US state department. When confirmed by the Senate, Desai will become the first person of India or even South Asian origin to head the bureau.

Patna
“International Bhojpur Mahostva” was organized in Patna. It is a part of completion of 35 years of establishment of Bhojpuri academy by the Bihar government
for promotion of Bhojpuri language and culture.

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