rawan239 The Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT) has launched cinnamon cultivation in Himachal Pradesh for the first time.
Highlights
Originally, cinnamon was grown in Sri Lanka, while minor producing countries include Seychelles, Madagascar, and India.
India sends 45,318 tonnes of cinnamon periodically from China, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Indonesia and Nepal.
With the cultivation of Cinnamon, Himachal Pradesh has become the first state of India to possess organized cultivation of cinnamon.
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh complimented the winners of the DEFENCE Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), ‘Dare to Dream 2.0’ Contest in New Delhi.
The Raksha Mantri presented the Awards to 40 winners – 22 within the Individual category and 18 within the Startup level.
He also started ‘Dare to Dream 3.0’ to market innovators & startups and supply a platform for the young ignited minds within the country.
Dare to Dream is DRDO’s pan-India competition to market Indian academicians, individuals and startups to develop emerging defence and aerospace technologies/systems.
Sixteen DRDO experts under the age of 35 were awarded for their outstanding contributions in areas of their expertise.
Three indigenously-developed technologies were handed over to the soldiers.
DRDO managed Research Policy & Records Management Policy was launched.
In India, the ‘Ganga dolphin Day’ is observed each year on October 5 to raise knowledge and support the protection of Ganga River Dolphins.
Highlights:
It had been on today in 2010 that Ganga Dolphins were declared national aquatic animals.
WWF, The World Wide Fund for Nature, in 2012 and the Uttar Pradesh government jointly began the dolphin conservation campaign.
The Gangetic Dolphins are included under the primary Schedule of Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. they have been declared “Endangered” under (International Union for Conservation of Nature).
They’re listed under Appendix I as most endangered under the Convention on International trade in endangered species (CITES).
They’re listed under Appendix II of Conservation on Migratory Species.
The Vikramshila Ganges Dolphin Sanctuary was established in Bihar under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
Affairs:Najla Bouden Romdhane has been appointed because the first-ever female Prime Minister of Tunisia.
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The 63-year-old Ms Bouden has also become the first female prime minister within the whole Arab world.
Ms Bouden will be Tunisia’s tenth Prime Minister.
Before this appointment, Najla served within the Education bureau in 2011.
She is a former director at PromESsE, a higher education reform project, and has held senior positions at Tunisia’s higher education ministry.
Originally from Kairouan, she is a French-educated geologist with a doctorate in geological engineering and a lecturer at Tunisia’s National Engineering School.
The President of Tunisia is Kais Saied, and also the Capital of Tunisia is Tunis.
The currency of Tunisia is that the Tunisian dinar.
World Teachers day is commemorated on 5 October by UNESCO, to celebrate all the teachers worldwide.
Highlights:
The World Teachers Day has been held every year to celebrate all the teachers worldwide since 1994.
The Theme for World Teachers Day 2021 is Teachers at the heart of Education recovery.
The world teachers day focuses on appreciating, assessing and improving the educators of the world.
It also celebrates the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers.
World Teachers Day is held together with the International Labour Organization (ILO), UNICEF and Education International (EI).
An external evaluation of the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) was conducted in 2020 on the advice of , which found that the programme has done a commendable job and performed very well.
Highlights:
The NACP was launched in 1992. It is being implemented as a comprehensive programme to prevent and manipulate HIV/AIDS in India.
The NACP I was started in 1992 and was implemented with the goal of slowing down HIV infections so as to decrease morbidity, mortality and the effect of AIDS in the country.
In November 1999, the 2nd National AIDS Control Project (NACP II) was launched to limit the unfold of HIV contamination in India and expand Indias potential to respond to HIV/AIDS on a long-term basis.
The 3rd National AIDS Control Project (NACP III) was launched in July 2007 to Halt and Reverse the Epidemic over its five-year period.
Indian Boxer Lovlina Borgohain has failed to attain the gold medal remaining match. She settles for a bronze medal.
Key Points:
This is Indias third medal of the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. She lost to Busenaz Surmeneli of Turkey by unanimous selection in the womens welterweight (69 kg) semifinal at Tokyo 2020. Lovlina had already assured India of their first boxing medal at the ongoing Olympic Games when she upstaged former world champion, Nien-Chin Chen of Taiwan, to enter the semis.
Indian mens hockey team defeated Germany to win their first-ever Olympic medal in forty-one years.
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India wins the bronze medal in mens hockey after beating Germany 5-4 at Tokyo Olympics. Before this podium ended for bronze, India closing climbed up the Olympic podium in 1980, gaining its 8th gold at the Games. Simranjeet Singh scored two desires for India at the Oi Hockey Stadium, alongside Hardik Singh, Harmanpreet Singh and Rupinder Pal Singh, including their names on the scoresheet.
Nearly 48 per cent parents are not willing to send their children to schools till they are vaccinated against the novel coronavirus infection, says a new survey.
The survey conducted with over 32,000 parents across 361 districts in the country found that 30 per cent parents are willing to send their wards to schools if coronavirus cases in their districts come down to zero.
Vaccinating children in the coming months is going to be key if children are to go to schools for physical classes. Forty-eight per cent of the surveyed parents said they are not willing to send their children to schools till they are vaccinated.
“At least 21 per cent of parents said whenever the schools reopen, they are ready to send their wards there,” said the survey by an online platform,Local Circles.
Nearly 47 per cent of the respondents of the survey were from tier 1 districts, 27 per cent from tier 2 and 26 per cent respondents were from tier 3, 4 and rural districts.
The states that have partially reopened schools this month include Gujarat,Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh,Haryana,Madhya Pradeshand Bihar.Rajasthan,Himachal Pradeshand Andhra Pradesh have announced reopening of schools in the first week of August.
Nearly 27% of the food samples picked up for testing in 2020-21 did not conform to the standards and one out of every five non-conforming samples was found to be unsafe.
In a written reply, the food and consumer affairs ministry toldRajya Sabha that 23,493 out of the 86,696 food samples that were analysed were found non-conforming to the standards and 4,675 samples were found to be unsafe. Another 11,027 of the samples that were analysed were found as substandard.
According to the government data, a maximum of 1,921 food samples were found unsafe in Uttar Pradesh, followed byTamil Nadu(1,221) andKerala(543).Meghalayawas the only state where all 48 samples were found to be conforming with the prescribed standards.
The ministry informed theUpper Housethat 20,959 civil cases were registered against the offenders and 13,195 cases were decided. Another 3,608 criminal cases were initiated against the violators and 486 cases were decided. According to the ministry, the agencies have raised a penalty of Rs 4.21 crore against the violators.
It said no separate data is available with respect to action taken in respect of food grain distributed atPDSshops.