🔳Romania, Bulgaria will join EU's Schengen area on January 1, 2025

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🔳3 Indians Shine On Forbes' 2024 World's Most Powerful Women List

◼️Forbes 2024 list of The Worlds 100 Most Powerful Women features three Indians Nirmala Sitharaman, Roshni Nadar Malhotra and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.

◼️The number 28 on the list is Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman.

◼️Ranked 81st on the list, Roshni Nadar Malhotra is the Chairperson of HCL Technologies, one of India's leading IT services firms, and CEO of HCL Corporation.

◼️Ranked 82nd in Forbes' Power Women list and 91st among India's richest individuals in 2024, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has earned her place as a trailblazer in biotechnology. She is the founder and chairperson of Biocon, a biopharmaceutical company she established in 1978.

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🔳India's dope testing lab gets WADA approval for biological passport

◼️This allows the NDTL to manage the biological profiles of athletes, enhance anti-doping efforts and promote fair play.

◼️With this, India has joined the 17 countries that have such a unit, which will also help neighbouring countries.

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