General Awareness

GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - January 2019

Jan 2019

Aug 20, 2019

India's 1st Central Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology To Be Set Up In Gujarat

India's first Central Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology (CICET) will be set up in Gujarat to give boost to the chemical industry. It was announced by Union Minister of State (MoS) for Chemical and Fertilizers.
He also announced that Central Government is also planning to set up Plastic Waste Management Centre in Ahmedabad to find out solutions to systematic segregation and recycling of plastic waste.
It will come up either at Ahmedabad or Surat. It will facilitate chemical industry with research and innovations.
It will specially cater chemical industries located in Gujarat's Vapi, Ankleshwar and Vatva in Valsad, Bharuch and Ahmedabad districts

India Gets Its First National Essential Diagnostics List

India has got its first National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL) finalised by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) which aims to bridge the current regulatory system's gap that do not cover all the medical devices and in-vitro diagnostic device (IVD).
With this, India has become the first country to compile such a list that would provide guidance to the government for deciding the kind of diagnostic tests that different healthcare facilities in villages and remote areas require.

Aug 19, 2019

Dy Patil, Fergusson Among 7 Colleges To Set Up Campus

In a first, seven educational institutes in Maharashtra, including the sought-after Fergusson, DY Patil University and VIT Pune, are soon going to set up their campuses in Kashmir.
The administrations of these institutes have expressed their interest to Sarhad, a Pune-based non-profit organisation, which has been working for peace building and education in Jammu & Kashmir for the past two decades.
Highly rated institutes are being approached — Fergusson College, VIT Pune, DY Patil University, Garware College, SP College, Arham Institute and many others — recently to set up their branches in Kashmir and Kargil. Seven of them, including VIT and Arham, are now ready to start their campuses.

Aug 18, 2019

MP Colleges To Conduct Sessions On Rajiv Gandhi

The Madhya Pradesh government decided to introduce special sessions in government and private colleges to teach students about the "life, ideology and policies" of former PM Rajiv Gandhi.
The state government will observe 75th birth anniversary of former PM Rajiv Gandhi the whole year, as 'Yuva Sankalp Varsh' by organising different programmes and inviting experts to inform the students about Rajiv Gandhi's life, ideology and policies.
The programmes will be held from August 20, 2019, birth anniversary of late Rajiv Gandhi to May 21, 2020, his death anniversary.

Union Health Minister Inaugurates Medical College Named After Atal Bihari Vajpayee

On the first death anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Union Health Minister of India Harsh Vardhan inaugurated the medical college named after the late Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi on August 16,2019.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences (ABVIMS) started with 100 MBBS seats this year. It will be a state-of-art medical college with reputed faculties and world class infrastructure.
The super specialty block has more than 550 beds and the new Resident Doctors' Hostel has 827 bed units.

Aug 17, 2019

The Aditya Birla World Academy Features In 'The Commonwealth At 70' Book

The Aditya Birla World Academy, India's leading International school is the only Indian school to be featured in 'The Commonwealth at 70: From Westminster to the World' book published by the popular London publishers St James's House and the History of Parliament Trust.
Mrs. Neerja Birla, Chairperson of The Aditya Birla World Academy attended the event 'Commonwealth at 70', that commemorated 70 years of the Commonwealth on 25th June 2019, at Westminster Abbey, UK.

New Organ Lurking Under Skin Discovered

Scientists have discovered a new organ in the skin that senses pain and could pave the way for more effective painkilling medication.
These pain-sensing cells form a "mesh-like network" which is so extensive it should be considered an organ, scientists say. Previously it was believed the endings of nerve cells were unwrapped, but this latest research suggests that is not the case.
Study shows that sensitivity to pain does not occur only in the skin's nerve fibres, but also in this recently discovered pain-sensitive organ.
These cells sit below the outer layer of skin (the epidermis) and their long tentacle-like protrusions extend up into the outer layer.

Schools Named After Atal Bihari Vajpayee Will Be Opened In All Divisions

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that residential schools, named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will be built in all 18 mandals (divisions) in the state.
Yogi Adityanath made this announcement at an event at the Lok Bhawan in Lucknow, commemorating Atal Bihari Vajpayee's first death anniversary, i.e. on 16 august,2019.
Yogi Adityanath also announced that a 25-feet tall statue of the former prime minister will be installed at Lok Bhawan in December 2019.

Aug 16, 2019

Rajasthan Launches New Higher Education Model

A new higher education model has been launched in Rajasthan for distribution of faculties and movable assets among the government colleges at the district level to rationalise the availability of resources.
The model will create a pool for sharing of facilities which will benefit the colleges lacking infrastructure.
Minister of State for Higher Education Bhanwar Singh Bhati inaugurated the model, titled Resource Assistance for Colleges with Excellence, in the presence of principals of colleges.
The colleges would get equal opportunities for imparting quality education with the adoption of the new model.

New TB Drug Gets US FDA Nod

The Food and Drug Administration endorsed the approach, approving the newest of the three drugs used in the regimen.
Usually, the World Health Organization adopts approvals made by the FDA or its European counterpart, meaning the treatment could soon come into use worldwide.
Tuberculosis has now surpassed AIDS as the world's leading infectious cause of death, and the so-called XDR strain is the ultimate in lethality.
Only a tiny fraction of the 10 million people infected by TB each year get this type, but very few of them survive it. The treatment itself is extraordinarily difficult.
But in the trial Msimango joined, nicknamed Nix-TB, patients took only five pills a day for six months.
The pills contain just three drugs: pretomanid, bedaquiline and linezolid. (Someday, the whole regimen might come in just one pill, as HIV drugs do, one expert said.)
But even the new treatment poses hazards. Short-term use of linezolid against severe hospital infections causes few problems, but use for many weeks against TB can kill nerves in the feet, making it hard to walk, or can suppress the bone marrow where blood cells are made.
The FDA approved bedaquiline in 2012 for use against multi-drug resistant TB (the XDR strain is an even deadlier subset), and in 2015 the WHO followed suit.
FDA advisory committee voted 14-4 to approve it. Some advocacy groups argued at the time that the drug had been too little tested.

Share on

TCY Analytics (View Subscription Plans)

Subscribe to GK Updates

I want to receive

GK Tags

October GK, September GK, August GK, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, ENVIRONMENT, BUSINESS AND ECONOMY, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, SPORTS, NATIONAL AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, PERSONS IN NEWS, DAYS AND EVENTS, AWARDS AND HONOURS, GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND SCHEMES, GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION, ART AND CULTURE, BOOKS AND AUTHORS, TOURISM AND HOTEL INDUSTRY AWARENESS, ART AND CULTURE, LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS

Start Discussion

On any topic

Take Tests

Compiled from GK updates

Login

Sign Up

Forgot Password

Download TCY App

Unlock All Services and Enjoy The Premium Benefits

US$ 10

US$ 13

US$ 15

US$ 17

US$ 19

US$ 20

US$ 21

US$ 22

US$ 23

US$ 24

US$ 25

US$ 26