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Aug 23, 2021

India's First Hindu Studies Course at BHU

Banaras Hindu University (BHU) started an MA course on Hindu Studies from this academic year. This is India's first such course and it is being conducted at BHU's Bharat Adhyayan Kendra (BAK) in its Faculty of Arts. It will be run by the Philosophy, Sanskrit, Archaeology, and Vedic Veda Vigyan departments, and the Bharat Study Centre.
In January 2021, senior members of the board of studies at BHU had passed the proposal to begin this course after long deliberations. Apart from Indian students, foreign students will also be able to join this course.
Other central universities will also begin the Hindu Studies course soon.
Anyone from any discipline arts, science, IT, technology who holds a graduation degree can take admissions to the BHU Hindu Studies MA course of two years.
The MA course will comprise 4 semesters and 16 papers out of which 9 are compulsory and 7 are elective.

Aug 22, 2021

India Approves World's First DNA Covid Vaccine

India's drug regulator has approved the world's first DNA vaccine against Covid-19 for emergency use.
The three-dose ZyCoV-D vaccine prevented symptomatic disease in 66% of those vaccinated, according to an interim study quoted by the vaccine maker Cadila Healthcare.
The firm plans to make up to 120 million doses of India's second home-grown vaccine every year.
Previous DNA vaccines have worked well in animals but not humans.
India has so far given more than 570 million doses of three previously approved vaccines - Covishield, Covaxin and Sputnik V.
About 13% of adults have been fully vaccinated and 47% have received at least one shot since the beginning of the drive in January.

Aug 21, 2021

Assam to Implement NEP from April 2022

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the state government will implement the New Education Policy (NEP) from April 2022.
He said that this process would be completed by the end of March next 2022.
Under NEP, all high schools would be upgraded to senior secondary school. The government would upgrade the academic infrastructure of the educational institutions for this purpose within a year.

IIT Madras Joins Hands with Road Transport Ministry

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras has collaborated with the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) for research in areas of pavement engineering and intelligent transportation systems.
According to officials, their collaborative work will include research on novel pavement materials and technologies, hydrogen cell transportation, automatic vehicle classification, novel toll systems, incident management systems, traveller information systems, FastTAG data analytics and traffic simulations besides transportation safety.

Aug 20, 2021

N. K. Singh Succeeds Manmohan as President of IEG

N. K. Singh, chairman of the Fifteenth Finance Commission, has been elected president of the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG). He succeeds former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
A prominent administrator and policymaker, Singh has been the chairman of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management review committee and also served as member of the Rajya Sabha (2008 –2014).
The Institute of Economic Growth (acronym IEG), is an autonomous body and civil service training institute under the Government of India, founded in 1952 by the renowned economist, V. K. R. V. Rao, for advanced research on economic and social development.
The Institute of Economic Growth (acronym IEG), is an autonomous body and civil service training institute under the Government of India, founded in 1952 by the renowned economist, V. K. R. V. Rao, for advanced research on economic and social development. It is widely regarded as a centre of excellence in the field. The Institute is situated on Malka Gunj road, at University Enclave, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.

Aug 19, 2021

Supreme Court Allows Women to Appear for NDA Exam

The Supreme Court allowed women candidates to appear for National Defence Academy (NDA) entrance exam scheduled on September 5, saying debarring them amounted to gender discrimination.
In an interim order, a Bench led by Justice SK Kaul, however, clarified that the results will be subject to the final outcome of the petition.
It also directed the Union Public Service Commission to issue an appropriate notification taking into account its order and give it due publicity.

Ravi Dahiya Bal Vidyalaya: Tokyo Olympic Silver Medallist's School Renamed

To honour the Tokyo Olympic silver medallist, the Delhi Government has renamed Ravi Dahiya's school in the national capital, announced Manish Sisodia. The wrestler's school 'Rajkiya Bal Vidyalaya', which is situated in Adarsh Nagar, has been renamed as 'Ravi Dahiya Bal Vidyalaya'.
"A large portrait of Ravi Dahiya will also be installed in this school so that young children are inspired and motivated to have an Olympic dream and bring glory to our great nation," Sisodia added.
Ravi Dahiya said that the Delhi government consistently supported him to help him win the Olympic medal.

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