Eat Right India
FSSAI certified more than 500 hospitals as ‘Eat Right Campus’ under Eat Right India initiative.
- Established in 2018
- Objective – Ensure safe, healthy and sustainable food for all Indians.
- Adopts a judicious mix of regulatory, capacity building, collaborative and empowerment approaches to ensure that food is good both for the people and the planet.
- Aligned to the National Health Policy 2017.
Boehringer’s Jardiance
Boehringer’s Jardiance now approved in India
- Approved by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) – India’s drug regulator
- Can be used for the treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD)
- Earlier got approval for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes
- Common chronic disease – Cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and arthritis
National Film Awards
Indira and Nargis dropped from names of top film awards
- “Indira Gandhi Award” – For Best Debut Film of a Director renamed as ‘Best debut film of a director’
- Prize money will now only go to director.
- “Nargis Dutt Award” – For Best Feature Film on National Integration renamed as ‘Best feature film promoting national, social and environmental values’.
- Category also merges award sections for social issues and environment conservation into one.
- Dadasaheb Phalke – Award money increased to Rs. 15 lakh.
- Swarn Kamal awards – Prize money increased to Rs 3 lakh
- Rajat Kamal winners – Prize money increased to Rs 2 lakh
Joint European Torus
New nuclear fusion record brings us one step closer to unlimited clean energy
- The current largest tokamak and only magnetic device still operating to reliably generate fusion energy
- Location – UK
- A machine that uses powerful magnetic fields to confine plasma into the shape of a donut.
- They create commercial fusion energy using two hydrogen variants — deuterium and tritium