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- The Department of Consumer Affairs operating under Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution launched Suraksha Store Initiative.
- The Bengaluru city corporation has launched Pranavayu programme to create awareness on the need to self-examine the respiratory health for Bengaloreans
- The Elongated tortoise or Sal forest tortoise is a species of tortoise found in Southeast Asia and parts of the Indian Subcontinent, particularly Northeast India.
- IUCN Red List Status is Critically Endangered.
- The Uttar Pradesh Government launched the ‘Pravasi Rahat Mitra’ app for the migrant workers of the state who have been returning from other states amid the lockdown.
- As per the recent study published in the European Heart Journal, Men are more prone to get COVID-19 infection than women.
- The Study reveals that higher blood levels of ACE2 enzyme in men enables Coronavirus to infect the healthy cells.
- Vitamin D is known to modulate the response of white blood cells, preventing them from releasing too many inflammatory cytokines (part of the body’s immune response to fight infections).
- The Covid virus is known to cause an excess of pro-inflammatory cytokines, called a cytokine storm.
- An Iranian missile hit its own support vessel during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman.
- The Thanjavur Netti Works (pith works) and Arambavur Wood Carvings of Perambalur belonging to Tamil Nadu were awarded the Geographical Indication Tag.
- Thanjavur Netti Works (Thanjavur Pith Work) is made from Netti (pith) from a marshy plant called as Aeschynomene Aspera.
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