The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has marginally lowered India's growth projection for the ongoing fiscal to 9.7%, a reduction of 20 basis points (bps).
Kovalam beach in Tamil Nadu and Eden Beach in Puducherry have been awarded the certification of Blue Flag. In India, there are a total of 10 beaches that have received the Blue Flag Certification
Guinness World Records has certified two Japanese sisters as the world's oldest living identical twins at 107. Umeno Sumiyama and Koume Kodama were born the third and fourth of 11 siblings on Shodoshima island in western Japan on Nov. 5, 1913.
A new extinct species of hybodont shark has been discovered in the Jaisalmer Basin of Rajasthan by researchers from the Geological Survey of India and the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee by a team of officers.
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