# National education policy

• Union education minister Dharmendra pradhan said that Assam will be like the laboratory of the country’s language based education in the next decade.
• Education minister was speaking at the North East education conclave 2021 in Guwahati on Saturday.
• He said some 180 languages spoken by the communities and tribes in the North East India are country’s strength.
• More than 64 languages are spoken in Assam itself.

# Swacch sarwekshan awards

• Indore was on Saturday ranked the cleanest city for the fifth consecutive year by the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs in its annual cleanliness ranking.
• The swacch survekshan awards, 2021 handed out by president Ram nath kovind included the cleanest state honour for chhattisgarh for the third time, in the category of states with more than 100 urban local bodies.
• Prime minister Narendra modi’s constituency, Varanasi won the award for the cleanest Ganga city.

# RBI report

• A Reserve Bank of India(RBI) working group on digital lending, including lending through online platforms and mobile app, has stumbled upon more than 600 illegal loan apps operating in India.
• These apps, mostly used to dupe unsuspecting people, are available on several app stores for Android users in the country, the working group said in a report.
• These apps were available across 81 app stores from January 01, 2021 to February 28, 2021.

# Russia-Ukraine

• The Build up of Russian troops near Ukraine has left US officials perplexed.
• Some Republican lawmakers have been pressing the US to step up military assistance for Ukraine.

# MTNL, BSNL assets

• The government has listed for sale real estate assets of state run telecom firms MTNL and BSNL at a reserve price of about 970 crore rupees, according to documents uploaded on DIPAM website.
• BSNL properties located in Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Bhavnagar and Kolkata have been posted for sale at a reserve price of about 660 crore rupees.
• The department of investment and public assets management (DIPAM) website haha, listed MTNL assets located in Vasari hills, goregoan in Mumbai for sale at a reserve price of about 310 crore rupees.