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    10Pointer
  • Categories
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  • Published
    1st Sep, 2020
  • Odisha’s Kandhamal Haladi has a GI tag and It is a pure organic product.
  • Armageddon in chess is similar to a Super Over in cricket or a penalty shootout in hockey or football.
    • In an Armageddon game White has more thinking time on the clock than Black but a draw on the board scores as a Black win. Normally White has five or six minutes and Black four or five for the entire game.
  • India and Russia were declared joint winners of the 2020 Online Chess Olympiad after the final was marred by internet disconnection and server malfunction.
  • The African baobab or the tree of life can live for over a thousand years with 168 chromosomes.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced to celebrate the September 2020 as “Poshan Maah” or “Nutrition Month”
  • Dr S. Padmavati Sivaramakrishna Iyer( S. I. Padmavati or S. Padmavati), India’s 1st Female & Oldest Cardiologist died at the age of 103 in National Heart Institute(NHI) due to COVID-19 infection.
  • Formula One Champion Mercedes Lewis Hamilton (British) won the Belgian Grand Prix(GP) 2020 at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium.

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