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The Maharashtra government, in a bid to become plastic-free state from March 2018, has banned packaged water bottles in Mantralaya and other government offices.

As per ‘India State-level Disease Burden Initiative Report’, child and maternal malnutrition were responsible for 15 % of the total disease burden in 2016 across India.

Private sector RBL Bank has set up an all women branch in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, reaffirmed India’s commitment to eliminating TB by 2025 at 1st WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending TB in Sustainable Development Era’ at Moscow, Russia.

The International rating agency Moody’s Investors Service upgraded India’s local and foreign currency issuer ratings to Baa2 from Baa3 and changed the outlook on the rating to stable from positive.

Since 1997, countries around the world have shared knowledge on policies and good practices, and have committed to eliminate child labour in a series of global conferences held in Oslo (1997), The Hague (2010) and Brasilia (2013).

Karnataka State Government unveiled an ambitious project to install Wi-Fi facility in all gram panchayats across the state.

Eminent Hindi poet and Jnanpith awardee Kunwar Narayan passed away in New Delhi.

Nagaland became the first among the North Eastern states to launch Point of Sale (PoS) for electricity bill payment.

France will host the 2023 Rugby World Cup to stage one of the world’s best attended and lucrative sporting events.