Published on: May 28, 2022
SNIPPETS – 28 MAY 2022
SNIPPETS – 28 MAY 2022
- In a pointer to improved health indicators, Karnataka’s Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) fell by two points from 21 in 2019 to 19 in 2020, according to the Sample Registration System (SRS) bulletin for 2020 released recently. IMR is defined as the infant deaths (less than one year) per thousand live births in a given time period and for a given region
- Karnataka to set up Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) cluster Mummigatti Industrial Area in Dharwad
- A new species of old world monkey recorded from Arunachal Pradesh has been named after a strategic mountain pass as Sela macaque
- The Chhattisgarh government has become the only second state in the country to recognize the Community Forest Resource (CFR) rights of a village inside a national park. The CFR rights of tribals living in a hamlet inside the Kanger Ghati National Park in Bastar district, were recognized
- National Facility for Gene Function in Health and Disease (NFGFHD) was inaugurated in Pune recently. This will be one-of-its-kind large facilities providing timely supply of animal models to researchers studying a range of diseases from cancer to diabetes
- Indian writer Geetanjali Shree has become the first Indian author to win the prestigious International Booker Prize for Hindi novel ‘Tomb of Sand’
