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- The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has developed an e-governance platform ‘SAMARTH Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)’ under the National Mission of Education in Information and Communication Technology Scheme (NMEICT).
- The platform has been implemented at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra.
- The World Bank approved 1 billion USD aid to India to accelerate “India’s COVID-19 Special Protection Response Programme”.
- The fund will be used to provide social assistance to poor, severely impacted and vulnerable households.
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that like HIV, the novel coronavirus could become endemic and “may never go away”.
- A disease is endemic like the chicken pox and malaria when its presence or usual prevalence in the population is constant.
- Quinine Nongladew is a village named after the alkaloid quinine extracted from the bark of cinchona.
- It is a village in Meghalaya which was called Quinine because of the plantation.
- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has declared a cyclone alert, named ‘Cyclone Amphan’, for the Indian coastline across the Bay of Bengal.
- The cyclone name was suggested by Thailand and will be the last name from the original list of 64 cyclone names proposed back in September 2004.
- The E-NAM (Electronic-National Agricultural Market) initiative has reached its set target of 1000 Mandis.
- It was launched in 2016 under the platform called “One Nation One Market”.
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