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Even blinds cannot be blind to the truth

Never in the history of India have we seen before such rapid change that made 20 million women get gas cylinders, 280 million bank accounts for those who were unable to access formal banking, Rs 3.25 trillion Mudra loans to the poor, and thousands of Jan Aushadhi stores selling medicines for 80 to 90 per cent less than the price at which pharmacies sold medicine. The government targeted 29.5 million houses for the poor between April 2016 and March 2024. Udaykumar India is in safer hands, perhaps the safest in its post-independent history, economically and militarily. Never in the history of India have we seen such rapid change that made 20 million women get gas cylinders, 280 million bank accounts for those who were unable to access formal banking, 3.25...

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The Bureau of Indian Standards

Four lakh gold items are hallmarked every day. Now, the hallmarking facility is available in 361 districts across the country. The Bureau of Indian Standards began its fourth phase of mandatory hallmarkingunder the Hallmarking of Gold Jewellery and Gold Artefacts Amendment Order, Over 400 million gold jewellery items have been hallmarked with a uniqueHallmark Unique Identification (HUID), ensuring greater trust and transparencyfor the consumers in the market.  During the fourth phase, hallmarking centres were set up in 18 additional districtsunder Mandatory Hallmarking. Now, 361 districts are covered under MandatoryHallmarking. BIS implemented the first phase of mandatory hallmarking on June 23, 2021. Thefirst phase covered 256 districts, whereas the second phase comm...

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The need for a new equation for inclusive growth

Covid-19 took the lives of nearly 1.9 million people in 2020, with the biggest toll reported by the US and Brazil. The year saw over 84 million people infected, while the exact number recorded in China, the epicenter was not known to the world. India stood third place n terms of infection and mortality while having only half the number recorded by the US India's mortality rate was also the lowest, which astonished the world. The year 2021 began with not so good news for California and London as the death toll and fear of infection in these places terrified the world. But for the rest of the world, the year 2021 began with a hope of ebbing the pandemic load and bracing a hope of vaccine supplies. Most people in India considered Covid-19 only as flu. Doctors called it the dirty flu wi...

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NBCFDC: Inoculation training

The government carried out nine-day upskilling training in the blended learning model of e-leaming and physical workshops for inoculation of vaccines. National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation (NBCFDC) under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Apollo Medskills has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) for delivery of vaccine administration training to nurses and pharmacists belonging to the other backward classes communities (OBCs) and economically backward classes (EBCs) persons using the co-funding of NBCFDC. The nine-day upskilling training is to be carried out in the blended learning model Of e-learning and physical workshops as per the curriculum drawn from operating guidelines issued by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Over the next ...

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GenNext BUSINESS Bet

The thriving inorganic business has the potential to conquer the world for the misery of the next generation of animal lovers and meat lovers fail to mind the non-science of the ultra-science. The cloning business is attracting huge capital to tap the huge market of meats and pets. The dangerous next-generation business is set to thrive on the next generation's craze Of making everything by infringing nature. None cared when cloned cats and dogs had hit headlines of the science press. When people want to eat the meat of cloned livestock, that's crazy. Livestock cloning is not a headline but a beautiful advertisement. A science magazine recently reported. In China, where demand for prime-quality beef is rocketing, another cloning company thinks its customer's wilt. Boyalife Genomi...

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