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President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the three-day “Vishwa Shanti Ahinsa Sammelan” (world peace and non-violence conference) at Mangi Tungi in Satana taluka, of Nashik district, Maharashtra.

The conference was organised by the Bhagwan Rishabhdev Murti Nirmaan Samiti. Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadanvis participated in the event.

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The six-day 27th International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2018) held Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

It is organised by IAEA. It is hosted by the Department of Atomic Energy and Gandhinagar-based Institute of Plasma Research.

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Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh co-chaired the first India-China High Level Meeting on Bilateral Security Cooperation with Mr. Zhao Kezhi, State Councilor and Minister of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China  in New Delhi.

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Paytm, run by One 97 Communications Ltd has launched a QR-based smartphone payment service called ’PayPay’ in Japan in collaboration with SoftBank and Yahoo Japan Corporation.

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The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of Delhi was recorded at 337 last week, which falls in the very poor category and is the highest for this season, creating hazy conditions, said data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

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India secured ninth rank out of top 50 valuable national brands, according to a report titled ‘Nation Brands 2018’ released by Brand Finance, a leading brand valuation and strategy consultancy.

India was ranked 8th in last year’s report but slipped by a spot to the 9th rank, despite its brand value rose by 5%.

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The Ministry of Women and Child Development (Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi)is organizing the 5th edition of the Women of India Organic Festival from 26th October to 4th November, 2018 at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Janpath Road, New Delhi.

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Mumbai won its 3rd Vijay Hazare Trophy title at M Chinnaswamy stadium, in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Mumbai beat Delhi to lift Vijay Hazare Trophy title for 3rd time.

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US-based writer Sujatha Gidla has won 2018 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for her debut book “Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India”.

The Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize is funded by the Shakti Bhatt Foundation.

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Diwali which is a festival of lights as a matter of practice people have been celebrating Diwali by bursting crackers.

Crackers contains combustible chemicals that include potassium chlorate powdered aluminum, magnesium, salts of barium, copper, sodium, lithium, strontium etc. and emits smoke on combustion of these chemicals along with sound.

This air pollution has serious impacts on the health of children aged people and people suffering from respiratory ailments  and also animal and birds.

Apart from these compounds large amount of waste is also generated after bursting of crackers.

Keeping in view the above detrimental effects and also the importance of the festival, Ministry has initiated a “Harit–Diwali” campaign.