27.05.21

Door-to-door survey in Agartala to trace patients

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The Tripura government has started house-to-house survey in Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) areas to find out Covid patients.

The health department has been asked to set up an adequate number of testing centres in each ward and devise the mechanism to bring all symptomatic and suspected cases under Covid testing to contain further spread of the disease.

The survey team comprises community-level health workers, anganwadi workers, representatives of civil administration and AMC. They have been asked to finish the survey work within three days and accordingly the testing of the suspected persons will be carried out in the specific locations.

An institution thats given Assam 7 of its 15 CMs

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WhenHimanta Biswa Sarmais sworn-in asAssams 15th CM, he will be the seventh ex-student of northeasts premier education institute,Cotton University(formerlyCotton College) to occupy the post of chief minister of the state.

Assams first premier in pre-Independence period, Saiyid Muhammad Saadulla, also studied at Cotton College, which was set up in 1901 by Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton, then chief commissioner of Assam. The college was upgraded to a university in 2017 by then education minister, who happens to be Himanta Biswa Sarma himself.

Like many other political figures of the state, erstwhile Cotton College was the nursery of the best political minds in the state and Sarma studied here from 1985 till his postgraduation in 1992.

According to a census conducted by the Odisha State Forest Department, the blackbuck population in Odisha has more than doubled in the last six years.The Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), also known as the Indian Antelope, is a type of antelope native to India and Nepal.

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It is widespread in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, and other parts of peninsular India.

It is regarded as the epitome of grassland.

It is thought to be the world’s fastest animal, next to cheetah.

It has been designated as the state animal of Punjab, Haryana, and Andhra Pradesh.

Its skin and horns are regarded as sacred objects in Hinduism, making it a symbol of purity. It represents good fortune in Buddhism.

Protection Status:

Wildlife Protection Act 1972: Schedule I
IUCN Status: Least Concern
CITES: Appendix III
Threats include fragmentation of habitat, deforestation, natural disasters, and illegal hunting.

Wayanad farmer bags biodiversity award

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Shaji N M, a farmer fromWayanad, who took up farming tuber crops as a solution to fight lifestyle diseases and poverty, has won the prestigious India Biodiversity Award (conservation of domesticated species individual), on theInternational Day for Biological Diversity.
The India Biodiversity Awards was founded in 2012 jointly by the ministry of environment, forest and climate change and UNDP-India.
Over an area of seven acres, he cultivates 200 varieties of tuber crops, earning the nickname tuber-man.

Bangalore residents recently witnessed a bright rainbow ring around the sun for a few moments, a rare optical and atmospheric phenomenon known as a “22-degree circular Halo.”This phenomenon is commonly referred to as the 22-degree circular halo of the sun, or sometimes called the moon (also called moon ring or winter halo), occurs when the sun’s or moon’s rays are deflected/refracted through hexagonal ice crystals found in cirrus clouds

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This is also known as the Kaleidoscopic Effect.

These halos are known as 22-degree halos because the halo or ring has an apparent radius of 22 degrees around the sun/moon.
Cirrus clouds, which are thin, detached, hair-like clouds, produce circular halos in particular. These clouds form at a height of more than 20,000 feet in the atmosphere.
A halo, like a rainbow, is visible when viewed from the right angle, sometimes appearing only white but often with colours from the spectrum clearly visible.

Singareni commissions one more solar plant, takes capacity to 162 MW

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One more solar power plant of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) of ten megawatt capacity, this time at Bhupalapalli, was commissioned on Sunday taking the companys total solar power generation capacity to 162.

The solar plants of the company have generated about 65 million units (MU) of energy saving 34.12 crore to the company on its energy bills so far. The solar plants commissioned so far are part of the 300 MW capacity being developed by the company in the first phase.

Andhra Pradesh: Investment proposals worth 16,000 crore cleared by state investments promotion board

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TheAndhra Pradeshgovernment has cleared proposals from 14 investors to startnew industriesin the state. The investors have come forward to invest about 16,000 crore in the 14 units which can provide over 30,000 jobs.

After the state investments promotion board (SIPB) cleared the proposals, the file was sent to chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy for his clearance.

The investors have submitted detailed project reports (DPRs), which include three industries in Kadapa district, two each in Chittoor and Nellore, and one each in Tirupati, Guntur and Visakhapatnam districts besides others.

Neelkamal group has proposed to set up a plastic unit at a cost of 425 crore, while Pitti rail engineering components ltd has proposed a unit at a cost of 400 crore. Both units are proposed to be set up in Kadapa district.

The Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways launched the second Floating jetty at Old Goa.The jetty will provide tourists with safe, hassle-free transportation.

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The Government of India has approved the construction of two concrete floating jetties on the River Mondovi (NW-68) to connect Old Goa and Panjim.

This is the second floating jetty to be built.

The first jetty, located at Captain of Ports, Panjim, Goa, was inaugurated in Panjim in February 2020.

12 districts get nod for horticulture cluster development pilot programme

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The Centre on Monday launched the horticultureCluster Development Programme(CDP) in order to promote the export of horticultural produce, identifying 12 out of a total of 53clustersfor implementation in a pilot phase.

The identified clusters for implementation of CDP in the first phase include Shopian (J&K) and Kinnaur (Himachal Pradesh) for apple; Lucknow (UP), Kutch (Gujarat) and Mahbubnagar (Telangana) for mango; Anantpur (AP) and Theni (TN) for banana; Nasik (Maharashtra) for grapes; Siphahijala (Tripura) for pineapple; Solapur (Maharashtra) and Chitradurga (Karnataka) for pomegranate and West Jaintia Hills (Meghalaya) for turmeric.

Based on the learnings from the pilot project, the programme will be scaled up to cover all the 53 clusters in the next 5-7 years.

The CDP will be implemented by theNational Horticulture Board(NHB) through Cluster Development Agencies (CDAs) which are appointed on the recommendations of the respective state/UT government.

NHAI & DRDO installing plants in Hry hospitals

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After Karnal and Panipat,oxygenplant atAmbalacivil hospital is set to become operational.Haryanahealth ministerAnil Vijon Wednesday afternoon inspected installation of the plant and asked it to be made operational by the night.

The central government has approved 60 more oxygen plants for Haryana, which would be installed at 30-, 50-, 100- and 200-bedded government hospitals in the state. For the same, the responsibility of completing the civil work within seven days has been given to NHAI. DRDO has been given the task of oxygen plant installation.

All the concerned agencies have been instructed to start the work without any delay. Every government hospital in Haryana would be made atamnirbhar with regards to oxygen.