World Immunization Week - celebrated every year in the last week of April - aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Immunization saves millions of lives every year and is widely recognized as one of the world’s most successful health interventions.
World Immunization Week 2021 theme-‘Vaccines bring us closer’,
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare today chaired the “Reaching Zero” forum on malaria elimination.
The country has been able to achieve remarkable success in reducing the malaria burden in terms of cases by 84.5% and deaths by 83.6% which has been well recognized by World Malaria Reports of 2018, 2019, and 2020.
Supreme Court judge Justice Mohan M Shantanagoudar passed away. Justice Shantanagoudar was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on February 17, 2017.
Intending to drive change, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, launched the STEM women scholars’ and researchers’ development (STEWARD) initiative focussed on mentoring women PhD research scholars at all levels.
Under the programme, present PhD scholars at IIT Madras are connected with the alumni working in similar domains.
The defence ministry has decided to airlift 23 mobile oxygen generation plants from Germany as several states reeled under an acute shortage of medical oxygen.
In a separate move, the defence ministry has decided to give extension to 238 short service commissioned doctors in the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) till December 31 to tide over the current situation.
Each plant will have a capacity to produce 40 ltrs of oxygen/minute and 2,400 ltrs/hr.
At the present session, the committee considered the quality Standards for dried or dehydrated forms of Ginger, Cloves, Saffron and two culinary herbs, Oregano & Basil at step seven, besides Nutmeg and Chilli peppers & Paprika at step four in the Codex procedure of elaboration of food standards.
Mr Guilherme da Costa Jr, Chair of Codex Alimentarius Commission.
Rita Teaotia, Chairperson, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
The first 'Oxygen Express' carrying liquid medical oxygen reached Maharashtra from Visakhapatnam. The Oxygen Express train is carried 100 tonnes of medical oxygen from Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) plant in Visakhapatnam.
It reached the destination, passing through Vapi, Surat, Nandurbar, Bhusawal, Akole, Nagpur, Gondia, Raipur and Titagarh.
Former chairperson of the University Grants Commission and former vice-chancellor of the University of Pune (then), a well-known physicist and educator Arun Nigavekar died. He was 79. Born in 1942, Nigavekar was the founder-director of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC),
World Intellectual Property Day 2021 shines a light on the critical role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the economy and how they can use intellectual property (IP) rights to build stronger, more competitive, and resilient businesses.
World IP Day 2021 is carrying the theme "IP and SMEs: Taking your ideas to market."
World Intellectual Property Organization,Head: Daren Tang.
Japanese telecom company NTT and India's Telecommunications Consultants of India Limited (TCIL) have come together to cooperate in the areas of fifth generation (5G) technology, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, and submarine cable systems.
NTT will act as a technology provider for upcoming next generation (5G) networks.
Sanjeev Kumar, Chairman, TCIL.
In its maiden venture into solar power, state-owned miner Coal India Ltd (CIL) announced it had signed a first-of-its-kind power purchase agreement for the sale of 100 Megawatt (MW) solar power with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam (GUVNL).The tenure of the agreement period is for 25 years.
An explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 spread a radioactive cloud over large parts of the Soviet Union, now the territories of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Nearly 8.4 million people in the three countries were exposed to the radiation.
In 2009 UN launched the International Chernobyl Research and Information Network (ICRIN).