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National:Named for Pushkin AwardK. Govindan Nair, former Head of the Department of Russian, University of Kerala, has won the PushkinAward of the Russian Federation. The Pushkin Award is given by the Federation to c itizens ofIndia foroverall contribution in popularisation of Russian culture, language, and literature. The first Keralite to get aPhD in Russian Literature and the f irst Indian teacher in the Department of Russian

of the Kerala University.Gandhiji's 40-feet tall bust to be installed at Gandhi MaidanMahatma Gandhi's 40-feet tall bust will be installed on January 30,2013 at the historic Gandhi Maidan inPatna on his 65th death anniversary. The bust, which is made of bronze metal and is in three

pieces, hasbeen made by a Delhi-based firm. Gandhi's bust was set for installation on his 143rd birth a nniversary onOctober 2, 2012, but got delayed due to va rious reasons.Gujarat BSF gets MoD nod for women battalionThe Ministry of Defence has given its go-ahead to the Gujarat Frontier of Border Se curity Force (BSF) toraise a battalion of women personnel to guard the Munabao railway station on the India-

Pakistan border inRajasthan. This will be the second such battalion of the BSF after Punjab. The Gujarat Fr ontier had written tothe Ministry a few months ago requesting to form a women battalion forthe Munabao railway station inBarmer district where New Thar Express halts. There will be 100 constable-rank women in the battalion whowill be stationed at all BSF outposts of the Frontier for asmall period before being permanently stationed atMunabao.U.P Govt plans Aadhar-based payment of scholarships in five districts

The Department of Social Welfare is planning to launch Aadhar-based payment of scholarships for studentson a trial basis in five districts of Uttar Pradesh. On the recommendations of the Governmentof India (GoI),the department is planning to hold special c amps in these districts for getting students enrolled for the uniqueidentification (UID) numbers. The trial will cover post-matric scholarshipand fee reimbursement schemes forschedule castes and schedule tribes, other backward castes, minorities as well as general categorystudents. Apart from the scheme for general category students,

which is funded by the state government, thescholarships of all other categories are partly or fully financed by the GoI. The selected districts are Lucknow,Kanpur, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagarand Agra. The Government of India has decided that in thesecond phase of the Aadhar scheme in Uttar Pra desh, the collection of biometric data for Aadhar number isto be done by the Directorate ofCensus, rather than the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).

Gujarat plans Knowledge Cities on lines of S Korea, TaiwanThe Gujarat government is planning to set up Knowledge Cities, hubs of academia, research, technologyand industry, for promoting innovation, on the lines of countries such as South Korea andTaiwan.