Published on: April 16, 2022
SNIPPETS – 16 APRIL 2022
SNIPPETS – 16 APRIL 2022
- Robin Uthappa has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Karnataka Brain Health Initiative. It aims at diagnosis of neurological diseases at grassroots level of primary health centres, secondary-level district hospitals and NIMHANS at the tertiary level in Karnataka
- Karnataka to celebrate birth anniversary of Sri Siddalinga Swami of Tontadarya Mutt’s in Gadag as ‘Integration Day’
- Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has recently issued guidelines to states and union territories asking that they modernize prisons as part of the Modernisation of Prisons Project
- The Ministry of Roads, Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has developed the portal named ‘e-DAR’ (e-Detailed Accident Report) to speed up accident compensation claims
- The record sightings of Malabar tree toad by citizen scientists has increased. Since 2014, over 100 ‘citizen scientists’ have recorded 201 observations from various locations in Kerala, Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka
- World Chagas Day is observed annually on the 14th of April. It is a vector-borne disease hits the most poverty-stricken communities, especially in Latin America
