The World Health Organization (WHO) issued emergency use authorization for Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for the one-shot dose to be used as part of the United Nation’s international vaccine distribution effort.
Alex Gorsky is chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson.
Geneva-based Stop TB Partnership is a unique international body with the power to align actors all over the world in the fight against TB. The Union Health Minister will hence serve a three-year term, commencing July 2021, as the Chair of the Board.
'Stop TB Partnership': Established in the year 2000.
A high-level central team led by Dr. S. K. Singh, Director, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) with Dr. S. K. Jain and Dr. Meera Dhuri (both from NCDC) as other team members has been deployed to review medical care and public health arrangements.
NCDC was established in July 1963.
This Bilateral exchange programmes in the field of sports and youth affairs between India and Maldives will help in expanding knowledge and expertise in the area of sports science, sports medicine, coaching techniques, participation in youth festivals etc.
Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports:Kiren Rijiju
The event aimed to increase the export of handicrafts and handloom in Canada by creating more avenues of trade.The virtual meet was attended by Apoorva Srivastava, Consulate General of India Toronto;Vijay Thomas, president, Indo Canada Chamber of Commerce.
Canada Capital: Ottawa; Currency: Canadian dollar
The 21-year-old Shreeshankar set a national record after making a jump of 8.26 metres in his final attempt at the Federation Cup and as a result, he attained qualification for the Olympics.He surpassed his own record of 8.20m.
Tokyo Olympics will be held from 23 July to 8 August 2021.
Hashmatullah Shahidi (200*) became the first Afghanistan player to score a double-century in Test cricket. Asghar Afghan briefly held the record for the highest individual score for Afghanistan with his 164 before Shahidi overtook him.
Capital: Kabul;President: Ashraf Ghani;
Currency: Afghan afghani
The Ministry of Education has decided to link the certificates with DigiLocker in order to ensure hassle-free access to verified Online Teacher Pupil Registration Management System (OTPRMS) Certificates. The registration fee for the certificate is ₹200/-.
Certificate issued by National Council for Teacher Education
Legendary cricketer Kapil Dev was inducted as one of the board members of the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI), the sports body. Dev, who captained India to World Cup glory in 1983, said he would work for the development of golf in the country.
The Professional Golf Tour of India was founded in 2006.
In continuation to the RBI’s vision of having a customer-friendly and transparent dispute redressal mechanism (ODR), now National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has gone live with ‘UPI-Help’ on BHIM UPI, a part of Digi-Help stack by NPCI.
NPCI Headquarters: Mumbai;
Founded: 2008