Intervention

India’s First Pollinator Park Inaugurated in Haldwani

Sprawling across four acres, India’s first pollinators park was inaugurated on Tuesday at Haldwani in Nainital district of Uttarakhand.
The park was inaugurated by Peter Smetacek, a butterfly expert and it has around 50 different pollinator species, which include various species of butterflies, honeybees, birds and other insects.

NTPC Signs MoU with IIFM, Bhopal for Narmada Landscape Restoration Project

NTPC Ltd., one of India’s largest integrated energy company and a PSU under Ministry of Power, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal, on 4th December, to implement the Narmada Landscape Restoration Project. The program is in partnership with a grant in aid from NTPC Ltd and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in equal proportions.

Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Containing the COVID-19 Pandemic can be Repurposed to Eradicate TB

Elaborating on the steps taken to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Harsh Vardhan mentioned the Union Health Ministry’s recommendation of bi-directional TB-COVID screening, screening among ILI and SARI cases, intensifying of private sector engagement, re-deployment of the repurposed HR and CBNAAT and TrueNaT machines back to the TB program.