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1) National Cancer Awareness Day 2019
2) Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan re-elected as President of UAE
3) Arvind Singh takes over as AAI chairman
•Prior to this appointment, Singh was the additional chief secretary (Energy) of Maharashtra government. He also worked as chairman and managing director of Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited and Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited.
4) 2nd ‘No money for terror conference 2019’ held in Australia
•This conference is Organised by Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) of over 100 countries. This conference jointly called The Egmont Group, which was created to provide FIUs around the world a forum to exchange information confidentially to combat money-laundering, the financing of terrorism and other predicate offences. The first “No Money for Terror” conference was held in France in 2018. India would host the next ‘No Money For Terror’ Conference in 2020.
5) 15th Governing Council of SACEP 2019 held in Dhaka, Bangladesh
•South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP) is an inter-governmental organization which was established in 1982. Its member countries Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka aim to promote and support protection, management and enhancement of the environment in the region. The 14th meeting of the SACEP Governing Council was held in March last year in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
6) Vice President inaugurates 10th Asian Conference of Emergency Medicine
7) Gulab Kothari to be awarded Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award
8) Indian Navy, Indonesian Navy bilateral maritime exercise ‘Samudra Shakti
9) Dr. Vinaya Shetty appointed as IODA’s 1st Indian and Asian General Vice President
10) BBC’s announced 100 ‘Novels That Shaped Our World’ list
•Renowned Indian authors like R K Narayan ( Swami and Friends), Arundhati Roy (The God of small things), Salman Rushdie (The Moor’s Last Sigh), Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy) and S. Naipaul (A House for Mr Biswas) are among 100 writers who have featured on a list of the most inspiring novels chosen by a panel of experts and revealed by the BBC.
11) West Bengal based writer Abhisek Sarkar wins award at Dhaka Lit-fest
•The special focus of this year’s lit-fest is on Indigenous Languages as the UNESCO has marked 2019 as the year of Indigenous Language Protection.
12) Infosys Prize 2019 for science and research