Titu Mir
- Nearly 190 years after his death, Syed Mir Nisar Ali, or Titu Mir, a peasant leader, who led the Narkelberia Uprising in 1831 — often considered the first armed peasant uprising against the British — has made a controversial comeback in Bengal’s politics through a chapter in a prescribed tenth grade history textbook.
- Celebrated in folklore as a peasant leader, Titu Mir remains a controversial political figure in Bengal for his religious identity as an Islamic preacher after he converted to Wahabism.
- The current row has been sparked by the chapter in the textbook, approved by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, that claims Titu Mir “killed” many Hindus and destroyed several temples.
Neem Coated Urea
Benefits of Urea coated with Neem
- Improvement in soil health;
- Reduction in costs with respect to plant protection chemicals;
- Reduction in pest and disease attack;
- An increase in yield of paddy, sugarcane, maize, soybean and tur/red gram to an extent of 79%, 17.5%, 7.14%, 7.4% and 16.88% respectively;
- Diversion of highly subsidized urea towards non-agricultural purposes negligible among farmers after the introduction of the mandatory policy of production and distribution of only Neem coated urea.
Hallmarks
- Hallmarks are official marks used as a guarantee of purity or fitness of precious metal articles.
- The Hallmarking Scheme is a voluntary scheme being operated by BIS under the BIS Act 1986. BIS is operating the scheme through its network of Regional/ Branch Offices all over the country.
- As per this scheme the licence is granted to a jeweler for certification of purity of gold (or silver) jewellery. A licensee jeweler has to get the jewellery hallmarked through any of the BIS recognized Assaying and hallmarking centres (no hallmarking center has been set up by Central Government or by Bureau of Indian Standards. Hallmarking centres are generally set up by private entrepreneurs).
Nikshay
- To monitor the Revised National Tuberculosis Programme (RNTCP) effectively, a web enabled and case based monitoring application called NIKSHAY has been developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC).
- “IT based E-Nikshay platform has been made user-friendly so that Private Doctors find it easy to notify.”
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