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Nand Kishore Verma met Sunder Lal Bahuguna in a book fair. He got influenced by Bahuguna’s great personality and decided to become an environmentalist himself. He gave up his second means of income and focused on getting trained to gain knowledge about water and environmental protection. In 2021, he was honoured with the ‘National Water Hero’ award.

IFS Geetika Srivastav will create history by assuming the position of Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad, Pakistan. She is the first Indian woman to be offered with this opportunity. She is currently working as the Joint Secretary at the Headquarters of the Ministry of External Affairs.

The Maharatna status will further enable the Power Finance Corporation to offer competitive financing for the power sector, which may boost efforts to provide affordable round-the-clock power for all.

The defence ministry has approved budgetary support of nearly Rs 499 crore for research and innovation in the defence sector for the next five years
 

In a key development on Thursday, the health ministry announced that it had placed orders to procure 30 crore doses of Biological E's Covid-19 vaccine

To give an impetus to indigenisation in the defence sector, the defence ministry has banned import of 108 more weapon platforms and equipment
 

As India continues to fight the second wave of coronavirus, the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment being the nodal ministry for Transgender Welfare has decided to provide a subsistence allowance of Rs1500 to each transgender person as immediate support to meet their basic requirements
 

Tejaswini Bai, who won the Arjuna Award in 2011 and was a member of the Women’s Kabaddi team that won gold medals at the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games respectively, who lost her husband owing to Covid-19, has got an assistance of Rs 2 lakh from Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports
 

According to data released by the Union Health Ministry, the number of active cases came down to 3,516,997 from 3,618,458 a day ago

Ventilators supplied to the States and the Union Territories (UTs) through the PM Cares fund and by the Union Ministry of Health has more than tripled the availability of ventilators in public hospitals in the country
 

Oil and Gas PSUs under the ministry of petroleum and natural gas, are extending their helping hand to support the nation in its efforts to combat the second wave of the COVID 19 pandemic
 

Ministry of defence has authorised the director general of the Armed Forces Medical Services to hire 400 retired military doctors
 

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and sports, Indian Olympic Association and the Sports Authority of India have come forward to lend a helping hand to ex-international players and coaches
 

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH) has mandated Oxygen tankers plying Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) to be fitted with a Vehicle Location Tracking (VLT) device
 

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have granted permission to the Telangana government to use drones to deliver covid-19 vaccines