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1. Which Indian-origin academician has been named the next Dean of Harvard Business School?
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2. Which of these brands is not owned by the Chinese automobile giant Geely?
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3. Name this CEO of a global pharmaceutical giant
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4. To whom is NASA giving $14.1 million to establish a mobile network on the moon?
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5. Which of these is not a location named after the famous footwear brand (or its founder) Bata?
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6. The NITI Aayog Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center has been launched in collaboration with?
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7. In which State has the country’s first plantation to cultivate Asafoetida (Heeng) come up?
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8. What is the standard term insurance plan that will have to be mandatorily offered by all life insurers from January 1, 2021 called?
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9. With a travel time of more than 18 hours, who operates the world’s longest flight?
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10. Based on total funding (as of October 15), which is India’s second biggest sports fantasy company after Dream11?
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If you thought fishing was all about spiking a worm to a fish hook and dunking it in water, here's an ancient technique. Fishermen in Yangshuo, China, fish in the river Li using cormorants. You may say this is one for the birds but in this technique, there are no fishing rods, no nets and no baits. The fishermen tie a loose collar around the throat of the cormorant which they have trained to catch fish. The noose prevents the bird from swallowing their catch and the fishermen retrieve the fish when they pull the cormorants back to their boats. For hundreds of years, the cormorant fishermen of Li have used this technique, now a dying art, if you can call it that. However, in Japan, the last practitioners of this fishing method are on the imperial payroll to bring freshwater fish to the emperor's table. But, now in China it's only for the tourists. The fishermen are, sadly, like fish out of water! Source: BLInk