12.05.21

Rajasthan floats global tender to procure one crore doses

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The state-runNational Health Mission(NHM) has floated a global expression of interest (EOI) for the procurement of one crore doses of Covid Vaccines.

The government ofRajasthanintends to procure Covid-19 vaccine on urgent basis to manage Covid-19 pandemic. Global EOI is hereby invited from foreign-based international manufacturers/their authorised agents/direct importers for procuring ten million doses of Covid-19 vaccine. The offered Covid-19 vaccine must be duly approved from competent authority of Government of India.

The international manufacturers (from outside India) of Covid vaccines or their authorized distributors/importers with appropriate licence to import the vaccines are eligible to participate in the EOI.

Government to open 143 Khelo India centres across 7 states

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TheSports Ministryhas decided to set up 143Khelo Indiacentres across seven states with a total budget of Rs 14.30 crore in its bid to nurture talent at the grassroot level.
These centres will be set up inMaharashtra,Mizoram, Goa,Karnataka,Madhya Pradesh,Arunachal PradeshandManipur.

Each centre will be entrusted with one Sports discipline.

The Khelo India centres have been launched by the Sports Ministry in PARTNERSHIP with state governments to ensure the availability of grassroot-level across the country.

In June 2020, the ministry had planned to open up as many as 1,000 new Khelo India centres over a period of four years, with at least one centre in each district of the country.

The Supreme Court‘s E-Committee has released a manual in 14 languages for its free “e-Courts Services Mobile App.”

The Supreme Court’s e-committee has released a manual for its “e-Courts Services Mobile App” in 14 languages, and the app itself has received over 57 lakh downloads.

The manual is available in the following languages: English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Khasi, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu.

The App functions as a personalised digital case diary, with case details available on the handset at any time of day, for free. It allows any litigant, advocate, judge, or anyone else in India to check the current status of a case.

With 4.4 lakh patients, Karnataka tops in active Covid cases

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Karnatakawith 4.4 lakh active Covid cases is at the top among all states with highest active coronavirus cases in the country.Maharashtrais second with 3.3 lakh active cases, followed byTamil Naduwith 3 lakh, Kerala (2.6 lakh) andAndhra Pradesh(2 lakh).

Many other states have reported significant drop in daily cases and coupled with a high recovery rate, the total caseloads have come down countrywide – from a peak active cases of 37 lakh to 26 lakh on Tuesday. West Bengal,OdishaandRajasthanhave 1 lakh active cases each.

Exports hit $51 billion in first 7 weeks of current fiscal

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Indias exporters are not complaining about the order book, despite some hiccups in recent weeks due to lockdowns across states.

According to the latest data available with thegovernment, Indias exports reached $50.7 billion during the first seven weeks of the fiscal year, 11% higher than the corresponding period in 2019-20. The initial weeks of the last financial year were washed out due to a strict country-wide lockdown in India, which coincided with a similar situation across large parts of the world.

Over 14k hectares in Andaman & Nicobar Islands gets organic tag

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Over 14,000 hectares area in Car Nicobar and Nancowry islands in the Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands has become Indias first large contiguous territory to be certified as organic under theCentre’s Large Area Certification (LAC) scheme.
Farming operations will be completely free from chemical inputs in this area like how it’s being done in the country’s fully organic stateSikkim.

India currently has several smaller clusters, accounting for more than 30lakh hectaresarea spread over many states, registered under organic certification as per the PGS-India certification programme where the areas having chemical input usage HISTORY are required to undergo a transition period of a minimum of 2-3 years to qualify as organic.

As per the international survey report (2021) on , India ranks fifth in terms of area and is at the top in terms of a total number of producers (the Base Year 2019).