A significant drop in industrial wastewater discharges and agricultural run-offs amid the lockdown, has cleaned water marginally of otherwise polluted Ganga, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has said in its post-lockdown…
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The Centre has decided to utilise the forthcoming monsoon season to expand its water conservation efforts under the national Jal Shakti Abhiyan. Ministry of Home Affairs has allowed to take up MGNREGA…
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In times of Covid-19 pandemic, Center and states in India have enforced the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus in their respective areas.The Act…
Read MoreThe first National Panchayati Raj Day was celebrated in 2010. Since then, the National Panchayati Raj Day is celebrated on April 24 every year in India. Every year on this National Panchayati Raj…
Read MoreWorld Immunization Week 2018 is celebrated widely in the last week of April (24 to April 30). It aims at highlighting the collective effort which is needed to ensure that every…
Read MoreWorld Malaria Day is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control. This year’s global theme for World Malaria Day is Zero malaria starts…
Read MoreThe government passed The Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) ordinance, 2020 which makes physical attacks on doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers were on made a non-bailable offence punishable by up to seven years in prison , which…
Read MoreIt was on April 18, 1982 at a symposium organised in Tunisia, that the holding of the “International Day for Monuments and Sites” to be celebrated was suggested. The idea…
Read MoreThe government is distributing cylinders free of cost in the Covid19 lock-down period to the beneficiaries of the centrally-run Ujjwala scheme. The free cooking gas cylinder distribution is part of the special…
Read MoreThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) received five lakh antibody rapid test kits for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) — the first of three The kits will be used to study the virus’s…
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