19-24 Dec : News
- After Savita, Ireland to allow abortion to save mother’s life.
- New norms devised by the environment and forests ministry (MoEF), the
highways ministry or any other agency such as NHAI can apply for
clearance for getting soil/earth in one go when they apply for
environment clearance.
- Justice Swatanter Kumar has taken over as chairperson of the National
Green Tribunal (NGT), to decide on cases relating to environmental
protection, and conservation of forests and natural resources.
- ToucHB : devise to diagnosis anaemia.Works by shining light of different wavelengths through the tissue of the patient’s finger.It measures .haemoglobin,,oxygen saturation, temperature and pulse rate
as well. The total blood haemoglobin is used for anaemia diagnosis.
- Committee of Eminent Jurists to Suggest Amendments to Criminal Law(existing laws on safety of women) : Shri Justice (Retd) JS Verma, Chairman of the committee. Smt.Justice (Retd) Leila
Seth and Shri Gopal
Subramaniam : Invites suggestions from public.
- National Mission on Food Processing Launched.Food Processing Schemes to Facilitate Entrepreneurs and Domestic AGRO-Processing Industries
Assistance Provided to 3229 Food Processing units under Technology upgradation Scheme.
- Censusinfo India Software Launched developed by the United Nations Statistics Division, in partnership with UNICEF and UNFPA has a unique feature which allows user to create tables, maps and charts using her/his own data.
