International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to provide a 2.9 billion dollar extended facility to Sri Lanka for a four-year period, with conditions on debt restructuring and action on corruption.
Teachers' Day or Shikshak Divas marks the birthday of the country's first Vice President (1952-1962) who went on to become the second President of India (1962-1967), a scholar, philosopher, Bharat Ratna awardee, Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan.
Union minister of home affairs and minister of cooperation Amit Shah on Monday assigned homegrown dairy giant - Amul and the country's national dairy board - the National Dairy Development Board - the task to make India self-reliant in manufacturing dairy machinery.
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