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December 9 , 2019 1604 days 823 0
  • Gold and silver prizes will likely be given to the devotees who deliver fabric and jute luggage to the Thiruvannamalai Deepavathi pageant.
  • The country’s foreign exchange reserves crossed the $450-billion mark for the first time ever which enabled the central bank to buy dollars from the market, thus checking any sharp appreciation of the rupee.
  • Nirav Modi is the second businessman, after liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, to be declared a fugitive economic offender under provisions of the Fugitive Economic Offenders (FEO) Act, 2018.
    • Nirav Modi is accused of defrauding the Punjab National Bank of more than Rs 10,000 crore by scamming a software used by banks worldwide.
  • Cyclone Pawan is the 8th cyclone formed in the North Indian Ocean Region. This is the highest number of cyclones in a single year since 1976, when nine cyclonic storms had formed in the region.
    • The name 'Pawan' has been set as per suggestion by Sri Lanka with the guidelines of WMO.
  • Sukapaika is, one of the several distributaries of the mighty Mahanadi river in Odisha, being choked to death gradually due to government apathy. The riverbed has suffered erosion and it is full of hyacinth.

 

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