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”.