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INDIA-US MOU ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COOPERATION & MORE ( 5 DEC CURRENT AFFIARS 2020 )

 INDIA-US MOU ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COOPERATION

India, and the US have signed MoU on Intellectual Property cooperation.
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  • Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry signed the MoU with US Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce of the US.

  • Union Cabinet in its meeting on 19th February this year gave the approval for signing the MoU with USPTO in the field of IP Cooperation.

  • The MoU aims at increasing IP co-operation between the two countries.

  • It will facilitate exchange and dissemination of best practices, experiences and knowledge on IP among the public, and between and among the industry, universities, research and development organizations, and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
INDIA’S TOP 10 POLICE STATIONS FOR 2020
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) released a list of the top 10 police stations in India for the year 2020.
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  • The Government of India selects best performing Police Stations across the country every year, to incentivize more effective functioning of police stations and bring healthy competition among them.

  • The list was in accordance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s directions while addressing the 2015 Directors General of Police (DGP) Conference in Kutch, Gujarat.

Here are India’s top 10 police stations for the year 2020:

  1. Nongpok Sekmai (Thoubal, Manipur)

  2. AWPS-Suramangalam (Salem, Tamil Nadu)

  3. Kharsang (Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh)

  4. Jhilmili (Surajpur, Chhattisgarh)

  5. Sanguem (South Goa, Goa)

  6. Kalighat (North and Middle Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar Islands)

  7. Pakyong (East district, Sikkim)

  8. Kanth (Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh)

  9. Khanvel (Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Dadra and Nagar Haveli)

  10. Jammikunta Town (Karimnagar, Telangana)
NISARG GRAM
Ministry of AYUSH will develop Nisarg Gram campus at Pune as the 21st Century abode of Naturopathy.
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  • Invoking recollections of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Nature Cure campaign of 1946 at the “Nisarg Upchar” Ashram in Uruli Kanchan village near Pune, the upcoming new campus of National Institute of Naturopathy (NIN), Pune will be called “Nisarg Gram”.

  • Located at a distance of 15 Km from NIN’s present premises at Bapu Bhavan, the new Institution will be future-ready, with many novelties and innovations incorporated in the project per se and the curriculum of the Naturopathy courses.

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