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RAJASTHAN Survey on full immunisation begins in Rajasthan Chasing target of increasing full immunisation coverage to over 90% in the state by December 2018, the health department has started a headcount survey in the entire state of children up to two years to check if they were vaccinated ever or partially vaccinated or fully vaccinated. … Read more
NATIONAL Nagaland Gets New Chief Minister, Liezietsu Shurhozelie. Ruling Naga People’s Front (NPF) supremo Shurhozelie Liezietsu will take over from Chief Minister TR Zeliang. Recent issue in Nagaland – It is the Conflict in social groups of Nagaland for the 33 % reservation of women in elections. Naga Mothers’ … Read more
RAJASTHAN Ganga all set to be state’s first transgender cop Twenty-four-year old Ganga Kumari is all set to be Rajasthan’s first and India’s third transgender to join a state police force. A two-year-long legal battle has finally borne fruit for Kumari, who could’ve become the first transgender ever to don the police uniform in … Read more
RAJASTHAN SC bars Rajasthan from crossing 50% quota limit In a major setback to the state government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained it from crossing the 50% ceiling on total reservation until the writ petition challenging the hike in OBC quota was decided by the Rajasthan High Court. The state government, by a new legislation … Read more
RAJASTHAN Govt seeks world record tag for ‘Daughters Are Precious’ event The state health department will get the ‘Daughters Are Precious’ event registered with the Guinness World Records. Last year, the department felt that by enforcing the PCPNDT Act, sex determination and female foeticide could be controlled to a limited extent. Higher success … Read more
RAJASTHAN Patients to get free food at govt hospitals in state. The state government has announced that it will offer food free of cost at government hospital across the state and health department will bear the entire expenditure. The scheme is likely to be implemented from September. In addition, the government has … Read more
RAJASTHAN 14-yr-old swimmer Gauravi Singhvi does Rajasthan proud in Mumbai Ninth-grader Gauravi Singhvi, 14, from the City of Lakes set another record by covering a distance of 48 kilometers in 9 hours 22 minutes in Mumbai on Tuesday. She is the youngest swimmer in the state to do so. She began her mission from … Read more
RAJASTHAN Rajasthan government spends only Rs 904 per capita on health ð National Health Accounts 2014-15, released by the Union ministry of health and family welfare on Wednesday, showed that Rajasthan had among the lowest total health expenditure per capita at just Rs 2,943. ð This report showed that of the total spending of Rs 21,188 … Read more
NATIONAL Indian Coast Guard Ship ICGS AYUSH commissioned in Kochi. Post commissioning, the ship will be based at Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Indian Cost Guard (ICG) The establishment of the Indian Coast Guard was first proposed by the Indian Navy to provide non-military maritime services to the nation. … Read more
RAJASTHAN CM Ashok Gehlot’s nod to two special units of Special Operations Group Chief minister Ashok Gehlot gave his nod for the setting up two special units in Special Operations Group (SOG) to combat economic and cyber offences. The two upcoming units- Serious Fraud Investigation Unit (SFIU) to investigate economic offences, and … Read more