The Indian Army has set up a Covid Management Cell to bring greater efficiency in coordinating real-time responses to address the exponential rise in Covid cases across the country. It helps in assistance to civil administration in the form of testing, admissions in military hospitals, and transportation of critical medical equipment.
India's top oil PSUs - IOC, ONGC, GAIL, BPCL, and HPCL committed Rs.100 crore for the redevelopment of Badrinath Dham, one of the holiest shrines of Hindus, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Badrinarayan Temple is situated in the town of Badrinath in Uttarakhand.
The temple and town form one of the four Char Dham and Chota Char Dham pilgrimage sites.
An anti-COVID-19 therapeutic drug developed by DRDO called drug2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) has been given emergency approval by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for Coronavirus patients in the country.
The drug, which was developed by the DRDO in association with pharma major Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, has been found to be effective in controlling the viral growth.
The drug comes in the form of a powder in a sachet & is supposed to be dissolved in water
Nepalese climber scaled Mount Everest for the 25th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak.
Rita, 51, first scaled Everest in 1994 and has been making the trip nearly every year since then. He is one of many Sherpa guides whose expertise and skills are vital to the safety and success of the hundreds of climbers.
Nepali name of Mt. Everest: Sagarmatha;
Tibetan name: Chomolungma
The European Investment Bank and the country's largest lender SBI entered into a pact to jointly pump Euro 100 million in equity financing into Indian small businesses focused on climate change and sustainability.
SBI already invests in a vehicle called Neev Funds for its impact investing objectives.EIB and SBI have created 'Neev Fund II' for taking ahead this partnership.
Neev Fund II will provide equity to SMEs focusing on mitigating climate risks,
Scientists have discovered a new type of uranium that is the lightest ever known. The discovery could reveal more about a weird alpha particle that gets ejected from certain radioactive elements as they decay.The newfound uranium, called uranium-214, is an isotope,or a variant of the element, with 30 more neutrons than protons, one fewer neutron than the next-lightest known
Common uranium isotopes: uranium-235, which is used in nuclear reactors.
Anupam Kher won the Best Actor award for his performance in the short film Happy Birthday at the New York City International Film Festival.
The film has been directed by Prasad Kadam and produced by FNP Media. Besides Anupam, Happy Birthday stars Aahana Kumra.
A Supreme Court bench has constituted a National Task Force (NTF) to assess the distribution of medical oxygen for the entire country. This bench was headed by Justice DY Chandrachud.
The demand for liquid medical oxygen in the country is around 8,500 metric tonnes per day.
The major reason for the scarcity is the shortage of cryogenic tankers.
BCCI scorer Krishan Kumar Tiwari passed away due to Covid at the AIIMS in Jhajjar (Haryana). He was 52. He was a part of the DDCA’s four-member Umpire and Scoring Committee. A well-known name in Capital’s cricket circles for over three decades, Tiwari covered four Tests, five One-Day Internationals, over 60 Ranji Trophy matches, and over 50 Indian Premier League fixtures.
He also officiated as an umpire in local cricket since 1985.
Three Indian-American CEOs Sunder Pichai from Google, Punit Renjen from Deloitte, and Shantanu Narayen from Adobe have joined the steering committee of the Global Task Force on Pandemic Response, which is overseeing an unprecedented corporate sector initiative to help India successfully fight COVID19.
This organised by the US Chamber of Commerce & supported by Business Roundtable.
The NITI Aayog has set up a dedicated portal – CovAid – for tracking all aid coming via missions or by individual organisations.
All Covid-19 related foreign aid received by the government can be tracked online end-to-end till distribution by the donors.
CovAid will also help individuals and organisations to do end-to-end tracking till the ultimate beneficiary.
NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant
London-based property consultant Knight Frank has ranked New Delhi and Mumbai in 32nd and 36th positions respectively in the Global Prime Residential Index. While Bengaluru moved down by four places in Q1 2021 and is ranked 40; Delhi and Mumbai dipped one place each in the same period.
Globally, Shenzhen ranked 1st with a18.9% annual change for the period Q1 2020 – Q1 2021.
New York was the weakest-performing global city during the period.
Mahatma Gandhi's former personal secretary V Kalyanam died in Chennai due to old age-related ailments.
He was Gandhi's personal secretary from 1943 to 1948, when the Mahatma was assassinated. Kalyanam had earlier shocked the country by claiming that Mahatma Gandhi did not utter the words 'Hey Ram' when he was assassinated 73 years ago.
23-year-old Arzan Nagwaswalla is a new addition to team India as a stand-by player. Nagwaswalla, who is a tall left-arm pacer, from Gujarat has been making waves in the domestic circuit.
Farokh Engineer played his final Test for India in 1975 while Diana Edulji's last game in the women's team came in July 1993.