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NITI Aayog, in partnership with the United States of America, is hosting the eighth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES 2017) from 28th to 30th November this year.

The 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games concluded at Ashgabat in Turkmenistan yesterday. With 9 gold, 12 silver and 19 bronze, India finished at 11th position in the Games.Hosts Turkmenistan topped the medals tally with 89 gold, 70 silver and 86 bronze, followed by China and Iran.

World Rabies Day 28 September is World Rabies Day It is celebrated annually to raise awareness about rabies prevention and to highlight progress in defeating this horrifying disease. 28 September also marks the anniversary of Louis Pasteur's death, the French chemist and microbiologist, who developed the first rabies vaccine. Today, safe and efficacious animal and human vaccines are among the important tools that exist to eliminate human deaths from rabies while awareness is the key driver for success of communities to engage in effective rabies prevention. 2017 – Zero by 30 World Rabies Day 2017 marks the announcement of the biggest global anti-rabies initiative. Today, the World Health Organization, the World Organisation for Animal Health, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control will reveal an ambitious plan to end human deaths from dog-transmitted rabies by 2030.

Joao Lourenco has been sworn in as president of Angola, becoming the first new leader in the oil-rich southern African nation in almost four decades. Lourenco, 63, took over on Tuesday from Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled the former Portuguese colony for 38 years. The Portuguese news agency Lusa reports that Lourenco's party - the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola - won 61 percent of the vote in August. Lourenco will be Angola's first head of state to be constitutionally limited to serving two five-year terms. Who is the newly elected president of Angola? Ans: Jao Lourenco Angola:  Capital:  Luanda Currency:  Angolan kwanza

The Chief Executive of Afghanistan, Dr Abdullah Abdullah will arrive in New Delhi tonight on a three-day visit to India. He was scheduled to arrive this afternoon but his flight was delayed due to rocket attack on Kabul's international airport. Dr Abdullah will meet External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tomorrow. The visiting dignitary will also call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind.

First Helicopter service was started from Srinagar to world's second inhabited place Drass today under Udan Scheme. The service will be especially helpful for people during winters and in cases of emergency. UDAN -  UDAN ( U de D esh ka A am N aagrik) scheme, an endeavour to make regional connectivity easy .

India to host South Asian boxing Championship in Guwahati. India will be hosting the South Asian boxing Championship for the first time in Guwahati from December 6 to 10. Boxing Federation of India, BFI said, the country will also host the 'India International Open tournament' in New Delhi in the third week of January.