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16 October 2026
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Kerala's first Legislative Assembly and the first Ministry that followed it
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Travancore's Legislative Council and the Sri Mulam Popular Assembly, where Kerala's legislature begins
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The Western Ghats as a World Heritage property, and the six States the range runs through
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Wayanad, the plateau district named for its paddy fields
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Ernakulam, the district formed from five taluks around Kochi
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Aardram, the mission that turned Kerala's primary health centres into family health centres
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Who fixes an electricity tariff: the central Commission for a central station, the State Commission for the State board
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Kerala's ageing population and the central law that gives parents a right to maintenance
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Travancore and Cochin, from responsible government to their merger, with Malabar still in Madras
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Kozhikode, the Zamorin's Calicut on the Malabar coast
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Kollam, the cashew district built around the Ashtamudi lake
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Mudiyettu, the village ritual theatre of Kali and Darika
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Northeast monsoon sets in over Kerala with an orange alert in four districts
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Trial opens in the Abhimanyu murder case as the Ernakulam court tells 16 accused to uncover their faces
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Seven new vehicles handed to Kerala's Legal Metrology Department for inspection work
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Kerala State Elderly Commission takes up 17 complaints at its Kottayam sitting
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Alappuzha meeting orders urgent steps as highway work disrupts drinking water in the Aroor-Cherthala belt
16 Oct
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Kollam District Panchayat opens applications for 'Nibodhitha', its competitive exam scheme for Scheduled Caste candidates
16 Oct
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C-DIT invites applications for vacant seats in its digital media courses at Thiruvananthapuram
16 Oct
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Kerala Devaswom Recruitment Board sets October 26 for Travancore Devaswom Board press and goldsmith posts
16 Oct
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Social Solidarity Fortnight closes in Thiruvananthapuram with a call against caste discrimination
16 Oct
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Kerala High Court upholds the rule that a Christian's will stands revoked by the testator's marriage
16 Oct
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How a State is renamed: Article 3 and the move from Kerala to Keralam
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Supreme Court indicates it may list former Kerala Chief Minister's plea against the FIR direction after the Dussehra break
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Kerala PSC's latest Extraordinary Gazette carries Category Nos. 151/2026 to 161/2026, with 4 November as the last date
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Article 22 and the safeguards a preventive detention order must satisfy
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Higher Secondary Improvement Examination called off in Idukki as a 12-hour hartal closes the district
16 Oct
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Forest Boat Driver, Police Constable Driver and Draftsman Grade-II among the ten posts in Kerala PSC's new gazette
16 Oct
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Half the notifications in Kerala PSC's September gazette are Special Recruitment or NCA vacancies
16 Oct
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BRIC-RGCB, the biotechnology institute at Akkulam, and the new Director who has joined it
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Kerala corrects the designations of two members of the expert committee restructuring KIIFB
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Margadeepam scholarship of ₹1,500 opens for minority pupils in Classes 1 to 8, with 31 October as the last date
16 Oct
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An Angamaly bakery firm gives ₹40 lakh to KSRTC for buying buses
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Kozhikode extends the adolescent scheme 'Kriyathmaka Kaumaram Karuthum Karuthalum' to aided high schools
16 Oct
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Kerala invites nominations for the State Disability Award, with 25 October as the last date
16 Oct
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Alappuzha invites applications for vacant Cluster Resource Centre Coordinator posts under Samagra Shiksha Kerala
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IHRD semester examinations set for December, with registration open till 7 November without fine
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Kerala invites applications for the State-level and local-level tourist guide entrance examination, with 9 November as the last date
16 Oct
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Section 45ZB of the RBI Act and the six-member committee that fixes the policy repo rate
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SEBI began as a non-statutory body by resolution and became a statutory regulator by Act
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A Chairperson and six members: the Competition Act and the body that clears mergers
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Article 280 and the commission that recommends how central taxes are shared between the Union and the States
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Writs, special leave and an advisory opinion: the three jurisdictions of the Supreme Court
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Governors, new States and President's Rule all sit with one division of the Home Ministry
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Centre approves India's accession to the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement
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Reserve Bank notifies an underwriting auction for the ₹34,000 crore re-issue of 6.94% GS 2036
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Scheduled commercial banks' deposits reach ₹28,395,692.65 crore at the end of September
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Overnight reverse repo auction draws only ₹9,562 crore against a notified ₹50,000 crore
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Supreme Court orders preservation of protest CCTV footage and production of the Section 163 BNSS order
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Supreme Court issues notice to the Election Commission on the petition against the Special Intensive Revision
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India's Ramsar site tally reaches 103 with Sukhna Wetland and Sauj Jheel added
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Prime Minister interacts with India's Asian Games contingent as women take 38 of 85 medals
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Sports Minister asks federations to build a pipeline of champions after India's fourth place finish
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India and Japan hold the twelfth session of their Joint Working Group on roads
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Indian Coast Guard and Korea Coast Guard hold their fourteenth High Level Meeting at Incheon
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Finance Minister takes part in the 114th Development Committee Plenary on private capital and jobs
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Mahila Kisan Diwas marked at the national level with a volume on women farmers released
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High-Level Committee on Demographic Changes launches a public portal for data and submissions
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Culture Minister opens TAKSHANAM at the National Gallery of Modern Art with over 250 sculptures
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Supreme Court holds that conversion alone cannot confer Backward Class Muslim status
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Supreme Court says fees for a whole professional course must be fixed before admission
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Digital India BHASHINI Division signs an MoU with Manipur on multilingual artificial intelligence
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Statistics Ministry releases the 121st issue of Sarvekshana, the journal of official statistics
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National Steering Committee clears ₹1,194.92 crore for five ITI clusters under PM-SETU
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Vice-President commissions INS Samarthak, the Navy's first indigenous Multi-Purpose Vessel, at Karwar
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Technology Development Board signs ₹150 crore agreement with QNu Labs for quantum-secure technologies
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India and Mongolia hold the fourteenth Joint Working Group meeting on defence at Ulaanbaatar
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Ayush patent filings rise from 63 to 590 a year, says Patent Office report
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University of Kerala team identifies Martian analogue sites in Tamil Nadu and Chile
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BHASHINI and IISc Bengaluru release text-to-speech models for Sourashtra
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Kanda Express to reach Agartala for the first time with 440 tonnes of buffer onion
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Birbal Sahni Institute reconstructs 4,600 years of monsoon history from a lake near Lucknow
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APEDA facilitates first export of organic Palmyra jaggery powder from Tamil Nadu to Bulgaria
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Supreme Court to examine whether ad valorem court fee without a ceiling is valid, in Kerala fee hike case
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CAQM extends PTZ camera monitoring to every industry covered by Direction No. 98 in the NCR
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All India Institute of Ayurveda reports 37,74,524 patients treated in ten years
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NHAI defends arbitration claim in Chittorgarh-Udaipur highway project and wins counter-claims
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PM-AJAY has declared 18,093 Adarsh Grams and released about Rs 1,730 crore in grants-in-aid
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National Conference on e-Governance Reforms opens at Dharamshala
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UPSC declares Combined Geo-Scientist Examination results with 21 Geologist vacancies
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Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for 2024 and 2025 to go to 106 young artists
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Reserve Bank sanctions amalgamation of Emirates NBD's Indian branches with RBL Bank
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Reserve Bank notifies Treasury Bill auction of Rs 23,000 crore across three maturities
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India's foreign exchange reserves fall to US$ 726,027 million, says Weekly Statistical Supplement
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India joins eight-country World Bank minerals launch with a partnership to mobilise US$5 billion
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The Montreal Protocol phases out ozone-depleting substances and its Kigali Amendment phases down HFCs
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The International Criminal Court tries individuals for four crimes and sits at The Hague
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Nature study finds 340 of 774 assessed reef-building coral species are threatened
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Nature paper shows microplastics are not chemically inert and generate radicals in water
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Mouse embryo models grown from a single induced cell type reach the equivalent of day 8.5
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United Kingdom launches an updated Arctic Policy Framework built on five priorities
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United Kingdom opens a £2.45 million Innovative Tactical Power competition with Australia
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British regulator seizes over 12,000 fake weight-loss pens worth about £2 million in Birmingham
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NASA sets out its instruments on Japan's Martian Moons eXploration mission ahead of launch
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Nature paper finds lithium ions cluster in battery electrolytes, with no anions bound
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WHO urges vigilance as Kenya confirms a second Bundibugyo Ebola case
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UN report finds fewer than half of national biodiversity targets on track before COP17
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Afghanistan records its highest ever hunger levels with 15.9 million facing acute food insecurity
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WHO says four of its Ukraine warehouses were hit since July, destroying supplies worth over $1.5 million
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School roof collapse in Peshawar kills at least 33 pupils and a teacher
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Houthi missile attack on the presidential palace in Aden kills five
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Brazil's Congress approves a constitutional amendment cutting the working week to 40 hours
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Minibus hits a stationary freight train at the Channel Tunnel loading platform, injuring 19
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Albania's prime minister refuses to resign as student protests continue in Tirana
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Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores plead not guilty to new torture conspiracy charges in New York
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General Conference on Weights and Measures abolishes the leap second and replaces it with a leap hour
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Atomic time, solar time and the two clocks the world has to reconcile
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Researchers map 8,619 mitochondrial proteins in an atlas spanning the tree of life
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Study finds 29.4 per cent of United States STEM doctoral abstracts carried AI-generated text
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Largest study of its kind links active brown fat to lower rates of type 2 diabetes, depression and anxiety
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Margaret Hamilton, who led the Apollo onboard software team, dies at 90
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World Health Organization investment case puts the return on tuberculosis screening and preventive treatment at up to 54 dollars per dollar
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World Health Organization publishes its country cooperation strategy with the Philippines for 2025 to 2028
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UN monitors verify 328 civilians killed in Ukraine in September as energy attacks resume
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UNICEF says more than 340 children killed in Gaza in the year since the ceasefire was announced
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Guterres tells COP17 Leaders' Summit in Yerevan that biodiversity finance is less than half the agreed 200 billion dollars
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COP31 to open in Antalya with Turkiye hosting and Australia leading the negotiations
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INTERPOL and WHO sign a cooperation agreement on health and security threats
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Brain enzyme Pla2g2f linked to cognitive resilience in ageing, Nature Neuroscience study finds
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Amateurs use large language models to break an Enigma message unsolved for 85 years
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ESA publishes Sentinel-3 view of West Antarctica as winter sea ice nears its annual maximum
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Anglian Water fined 1.6 million pounds for sewage pollution of the River Brain
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Sukhna wetland in Chandigarh becomes a Ramsar site as India's tally reaches 103
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The Capitol Complex of Chandigarh, one of the seventeen sites of the Le Corbusier World Heritage property
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How Chandigarh became a Union Territory and why the Governor of Punjab is its Administrator
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Nek Chand's Rock Garden: a road inspector's secret work that became a 40-acre garden of waste art
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PGIMER Chandigarh: started in 1962, autonomous under an Act of Parliament since 1967
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Panjab University: founded at Lahore in 1882, shifted to Chandigarh
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Zakir Hussain Rose Garden, Chandigarh: set up in 1967 and named after a former President
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Galathea Bay transhipment port recommended in principle at ₹48,862 crore with ₹12,230 crore of viability gap funding
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Phase One of the Great Nicobar port to begin by 2028, says the Shipping Minister
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Why Galathea Bay was picked: 14.2 million TEU and water more than 20 metres deep
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A greenfield airport, a 450 MVA power plant and a township of 16,610 hectares on Great Nicobar
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The Tribal Reserve on Great Nicobar, and the Shompen and Nicobarese who live on the island
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Centre approves a ₹199.24 crore smart and integrated fishing harbour at Mayabunder
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Oman and Pakistan exchange a visa exemption agreement at the eighth session of their Joint Ministerial Commission
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Oman tells the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Committee it has held polio immunisation coverage above 99 per cent
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Oman has five World Heritage properties, and all of them are cultural
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Resolution 660 condemned the invasion of Kuwait and resolution 678 authorised all necessary means
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