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Earth Day 2020: 50 years of Earth Day, Google created a special doodle

Google has prepared a special doodle on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. This doodle is dedicated to the 'Bees', one of the smallest creatures on Earth.

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Every year 22 April is celebrated as Earth Day worldwide. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. On the occasion of Earth Day 2020, Internet search engine Google has prepared a special doodle. Google has dedicated this doodle to 'Bees', one of the smallest creatures on Earth.

In this doodle Google is made from earth and trees. A bee is shown here and a play button is present. As soon as you click this button, you see a video intro. In this, the importance of bees has been told, such as bees increase the production of crops around the world by 30% by the method of pollination. After this a game starts. In this game the user has to sit on the bee flowers. Many new information related to bees and earth are also available during the game.

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"Earth Day or Earth Day" is observed to protect the environment. In the beginning, Earth Day was celebrated twice a year on 21 March and 22 April all over the world. Then in 1970 it was decided that it would be celebrated every year on 22 April. This year marks 50 years since Earth Day was celebrated on 22 April.

US Senator Gaylard Nelson has been behind World Earth Day on 22 April. He was constantly trying to make people aware of the environment. In the whole world, April 22 is celebrated as Earth Day, while in America it is celebrated as Tree Day.

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Mukesh Ambani's RIL gain 6% on Jio-Facebook deal

Shares of Reliance Industries Ltd. traded 5.63 per cent up in trade at 09:39AM on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: Shares of Reliance Industries traded 5.63 per cent up in Wednesday 's trade at 09:39AM (IST).

Around 14,927,173 shares changed hands on the counter. The stock opened at Rs 1320.0 and touched an intraday high and low of Rs 1339.7 and Rs 1300.0 , respectively, in the session so far.

The RIL stock quoted a 52-week high of Rs 1614.7 and a 52-week low of Rs 879.6 .

Facebook announced an investment of $5.7 billion (Rs 43,574 crore) for acquiring a minority st ..

Reliance Industries Ltd. key Products/Revenue Segments include Refinery which contributed Rs 246036.00 Crore to Sales Value (63.92 % of Total Sales), Petrochemicals which contributed Rs 135516.00 Crore to Sales Value (35.20 % of Total Sales), Oil & Gas which contributed Rs 1992.00 Crore to Sales Value (0.51 % of Total Sales), Others which contributed Rs 571.00 Crore to Sales Value (0.14 % of Total Sales)for the year ending 31-Mar-2019.

Promoter holding

Promoters held 48.87183 per cent stake in the company as of quarter ended 31st Dec 2019 .

Valuation ratio

It quoted a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.09 and price to book value of 1.85 .

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Japanese govt panel predicts earthquake of 9 magnitude, tsunami of 30 m

Tsunami in Japan: Seismologist Kenji Satake told the Mainichi that a massive earthquake and tsunami would definitely take place as it has always happened several times in the past 6,000 years

A Japanese government panel has warned that an tsunami as high as 30 metres could crash in on Hokkaido if an earthquake of magnitude 9 occurs. The panel assumed the "worst-case scenario" and said that an earthquake was imminent around the Japan Trench and the Kuril Trench. The panel however acknowledged that it is difficult to calculate the probability of such an earthquake but pointed out that every 300-400 years a massive earthquake has taken place. The last one occurred in the 17th century.

Seismologist Kenji Satake told the Mainichi that a massive earthquake and tsunami would definitely take place as it has always happened several times in the past 6,000 years. The Cabinet Office has also created a working group to estimate the damage that could be caused and to study countermeasures. The panel looked at simulation based on analysis of tsunamis of past 6000 years and covered seven prefectures including Hokkaido, Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibarak, Aomori and Chiba. The panel predicts Iwate to be worst-hit with tsunami of 29.7 metres, followed by Hokkaido wit 27.9 metres.

 According to local media reports, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) is assessing this report that highlights the threat of the tsunami wrecking the Fukushima nuclear station. The company is attempting to clean up the site of its Fukushima Daichi plant that was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

On April 18, a stong earthquake hit a Japanese island chain located in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo. According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency, this earthquake did not have much impact as it occurred in the Pacific Ocean west of the Ogasawara Island chain, which is around 1,000 kilometers or 620 miles south of Tokyo. Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that a Japanese government study has projected that a tsunami with waves as high as 13.7 metre could maul the 11 metre tall seawall built by the TEPCO on the ocean side of the compound of the Fukushima Daichi plant, which is already in the process of being decommissioned.

According to local reports, around 1,000 tanks of wastewater are stored in the compound of the dilapidated Fukushima plant. News agency Reuters quoted a TEPCO spokesperson as saying, "TEPCO will examine the latest projections and analyse the impact on the ongoing preventive measures against tsunamis that the company has been taking."

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ESFA Update local authorities: 22 April 2020

1. Latest information on coronavirus (COVID-19)

The Department for Education (DfE) has published guidance about COVID-19 in educational settings for staff, parents and carers, pupils and students on GOV.UK.

Please check GOV.UK regularly for updates.

2. Information: reducing burdens on educational and care settings from the Department for Education and its agencies

It is vital, at this time, that all educational and care settings are able to focus on the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19), providing for the children and young people in their care and looking after the wellbeing of their staff.

To help reduce the burden on educational and care settings at this time, the Department for Education (DfE) and its agencies have cancelled or paused all but the most essential data collections, services and requests from educational and care settings until the end of June 2020. Data collections which are paused will be reviewed and the pause period extended if necessary. A decision on data collections or services which are not due to go live until later in the year will be made in due course.

Further information and a full list of data collection changes for the remainder of the academic year can be found on GOV.UK. If you have any problems with completing returns that are still open please email managing.burdens@education.gov.uk.

3. Information: increased fraud risk during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Periods of instability, such as during the coronavirus pandemic, bring an increased risk of fraud. Fraudsters will actively exploit these difficult times and will target vulnerable areas for financial gain.

We have been informed some learners and parents have received a letter from ESFA asking for personal learner bank details in relation to the 16 to 19 Bursary Fund. We never ask for personal bank account details. This is a fraudulent letter – please do not respond.

Where possible, it would be helpful for institutions to share this message with parents and students through your communication channels.

4. Information: maximum loan amounts for advanced learner loans designated qualifications 2020 to 2021

We have published our guide to using maximum loan amounts for advanced learner loans designated qualifications 2020 to 2021.

This document sets out the methodology for establishing maximum amounts for advanced learner loans designated qualifications. It also confirms the maximum amounts for the funding year 2020 to 2021.

For further information, please contact the Service Desk marking your query for the attention of the rates and learning aims group.

5. Information: advanced learner loans funding rules for 2020 to 2021

We have published the draft ESFA advanced learner loans funding rules for 2020 to 2021. The rules apply to all providers of education and training who hold a loans agreement with ESFA.

This draft includes changes we have made since the 2019 to 2020 version 1 which were published in July 2019. These changes are set out in the summary of changes section at the end of the document. The performance management section will be added in version 1 which is due to be published in early summer.

If you have any queries on these rules, please contact us through our online enquiry form.

6. Information: the ILR funding reports guidance has been updated

We have published version 2 of the ILR funding reports guidance for the 2019 to 2020 funding year.

The changes we have made from version 1 of the guidance are:

added a new report to support delivery of devolved adult education, the ‘Non-Contracted Devolved Adult Education Activity Report’. This report shows provision in your ILR which you have recorded as funded by a devolved authority, but where they have not told us you have a contract with them.

clarified how we populate aims in the Adult Learner Loans Bursary (ALLB) Occupancy report.

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Pakistan PM Imran Khan tests for COVID-19; total cases cross 10,000 mark

A team of doctors from the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital collected samples from the Prime Minister. The result is expected on Wednesday.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan underwent a test for the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, days after meeting a well-known philanthropist who was diagnosed positive for the COVID-19 infection, according to a media report.

A team of doctors from the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital collected samples from the Prime Minister. The result is expected on Wednesday.

"As a responsible prime minister and a responsible citizen I am happy to announce that the prime minister has agreed to get tested on my advice," Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital CEO Dr Faisal Sultan was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune.

He said that the result of the test would be available soon and “we will immediately inform the people about it”.

Sultan, who is also Khan's personal physician and focal person on COVID-19, on Tuesday told the media, that Khan would undergo the test.

Advisor on Information Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Wednesday that the family of the Prime Minister had already tested negative.

Khan agreed for the test after Faisal Edhi, the son of late philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and chairman of the Edhi Foundation, met him last week, and has now tested positive for the coronavirus.

Saad, the son of Faisal Edhi, told the Dawn newspaper on Tuesday that his father started showing symptoms last week, soon after meeting Khan in Islamabad on April 15.

"The symptoms lasted for four days before subsiding," Saad said.

Faisal Edhi had met Prime Minister Khan to hand over a Rs 10 million cheque for the premier's coronavirus relief fund.

The Edhi Foundation was founded by the late Abdul Sattar Edhi and is the leading charity organisation in Pakistan.

Khan will participate in an event on Thursday organised to collect donations to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

A total of 17 more people have died in Pakistan from the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 209.

The number of coronavirus cases has risen to 10,072, according to officials.

Pakistan's Punjab province has reported 4,331 cases, Sindh has 3,373, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 1,345, Balochistan 495, Gilgit-Baltistan 283, Islamabad 194 and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir 51 patients.

So far, 118,020 tests have been done nationwide, including 5,647 in the last 24 hours.

A total of 2,156 patients have recovered.

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Qamar Javed Bajwa visited the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) and was briefed about the joint efforts by civil administration and Army to tackle the threat of the virus.

Bajwa emphasised on the need for continued stratified risk assessment and “managing trinity of health crisis, economic slide and psycho-social impact,” according to Army.

"The Pakistan Army in collaboration with other national institutions should take all possible measures to bring comfort to the nation in these challenging times,” the Army quoted him as saying.

Advisor on Health Dr Zafar Mirza in his daily media briefing said that the all institutions were working together like never before to defeat the pandemic.

He also said that a new committee was set up under his leadership to develop a consensus on the technical aspects of the response to the coronavirus.

Mirza said that the next three or four weeks would be "absolutely critical" for Pakistan and asked the people to follow the guidelines and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to help control the spread.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that peak of the virus could be reached by end of May or start of June.

He said this after meeting with the Chairman of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lieutenant General Muhammad Afzal.

Meanwhile, at least 492 Pakistanis, including 92 women, stranded in Afghanistan due to coronavirus pandemic have returned to their country from the Torkham border.

Officials said another 111 children, not registered with them as stranded persons but travelling with their parents, mostly mothers, were also allowed to enter Pakistan, the Dawn newspaper reported.

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Vladimir Lenin’s Time in England Would Shape Him Forever

After he left Siberia in 1900, Lenin would spend much of the next decade in London. He didn’t much like the food — but his time in the émigré milieu would help make him the revolutionary he was.

One hundred fifty years after his birth, it seems biographers are paying ever more attention to Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. While the revolutionary and statesman known as Lenin is the object of an immense literature, for the last couple of decades, it seems rather more attention has turned to the man himself — from his pre-revolutionary biography to his personal life.

In part, this is driven by the 1990s opening of Soviet archives, which had once forbidden researchers from delving too deeply into a state icon’s more human dimension. We could also cite a certain “defanging” of the Bolshevik leader, combined with an academic turn to questions once considered trivial: perhaps most emblematic is Carter Elwood’s amusing essay on “What Lenin Ate.”

Yet such a turn to what Elwood (citing Nikolai Valentinov) calls the “non-geometric Lenin” does not just mean downgrading his historical stature. Rather, disembalming him and looking closer at his personal existence can shed light on the world he revolted against — and how his particular notions of political action and organization took form.

We see this in Robert Henderson’s new book The Spark That Lit the Revolution, a study of Lenin’s spells living in London between 1902 and 1911. A former curator of the British Library’s Russian collection, Henderson richly portrays the intellectual life surrounding one of the Library’s most famous visitors — and the revolutionary party that began to take form among the exile milieu.

Free Russians

Henderson’s title is a play on words, if a slightly misleading one: there was not much of a British trigger for October 1917, though London was one among the early centers of Iskra (“the Spark”), exile organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP). In 1902–3, Iskra was produced in London with the aid of the Social Democrat Federation (SDF) man Harry Quelch at 37a Clerkenwell Green, today home of the Marx Memorial Library.

Ulyanov first reached London in April 1902, together with his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, following three years of exile in Siberia and then short spells in Switzerland and Munich. Beyond the interests of exile organization, the pair had no particular connection to Britain: the couple had neither contacts nor a gift for English; their Russian translation of Beatrice and Sidney Webb’s Industrial Democracy was based on a German edition rather than the original.

Henderson colorfully illustrates the émigré circles in London. There were Social-Revolutionaries, the heirs to the terrorist-populist tradition, anarchists and RSDLP members, who all came together in such meeting places as the Free Russian Library. Based just off Brick Lane, in Whitechapel, it was home to the “East End Socialist Lecturers’ Society” — and a major social hub of the Jewish and Russian revolutionary milieu.

Central, here, was Apollinariya Yakubova, a revolutionary in her early thirties who had already been a pioneering socialist in Petrograd alongside Lenin and Julius Martov. A teacher and enthusiast for socialist “Sunday schools,” Yakubova’s Society organized lectures at Liberty Hall on everything from free love to English history. This was combined with social events like a three-part soiree that boasted talks in Russian and Yiddish, a slideshow of scenes from the French Revolution, and dancing till 3 a.m.

This “Little Russian Island” in East London was, however, mainly a space for political organizing — and this was certainly how Lenin saw it. Alongside his Iskra work, he delivered a lecture at Liberty Hall in November 1902 where he railed “against the Social-Revolutionaries for two hours, during which time he never paused and never once looked at the faces of the audience.” His harsh polemical style was also noted by a Liberal MP whom he confronted at a talk on imperialism: “His shabby clothes helped to detract from his appearance, but he was evidently an intellectual.”

A library curator, Henderson is naturally interested in the material aspects of Lenin’s studies in London — including his repeated failed applications for library cards, under a variety of pseudonyms. Lenin never sounds happier than when talking about books: he not only beamed about his hours in the British Museum’s library, but also offers a materialist analysis of its wonders: “the British bourgeoisie doesn’t spare any money where this institution is concerned and that’s as it should be . . . the British are merchants after all: they need to trade with Russia and so need to know all about her.”

Aside from his library time — and contacts with Londoners like Quelch — Lenin, however, remained resistant to British culture. He appears to have shared Krupskaya’s disdain for “the bottomless inanity of English petty-bourgeois life”; he was “interested by the English muffins, which he had never tasted before,” but otherwise Russian in his tastes.

Perhaps surprisingly, missing from this picture of disinterest in all things British is the question of whether Lenin spoke English with a London accent — or possibly even a Dublin one. In her Reminiscences of Lenin, Krupskaya tantalizingly refers to how they each found it easier to understand Irish people than Londoners — at least before they started lessons with an English tutor.

Monsieur Farce

Even in their East London enclave, the Russian émigrés were marked by the world around them. First was the mounting pressure against foreigners — the anti-“alien” mood that led, in 1905, to the first anti-immigrant legislation. As well as antisemitism, the xenophobic climate had a particular anti-Russian thrust due to the Dogger Bank tragedy of October 1904, where the tsar’s navy fired on Hull fishermen, killing two.  But added to this was the mounting hope — and then sense of defeat — that followed Russia’s 1905 revolution, as the tsar first conceded small reforms, then crushed the opposition.

Lenin’s time in London was, in fact, a key phase in the development of the RSDLP, with the growing divide between its Bolshevik and Menshevik factions. If sometimes centered on apparently arcane organizational disputes, this split came to represent two different ideas of social democracy: on the one hand, the Mensheviks’ search for alliance with liberals, and on the other, Lenin and his comrades’ drive toward a tighter revolutionary party at the head of a worker-peasant alliance.

Britain was more open to émigrés than other liberal democracies: the 1903 and 1907 RSDLP congresses (each involving both factions) were moved to London after originally being mooted for Brussels and Copenhagen, respectively. This repression owed to the combined forces of tsarist diplomatic pressure as well as wary domestic authorities. But throughout Lenin’s time in London, the “Little Russian Island” — and RSDLP congresses — were under observation by both British and Russian police.

This did not mean that they understood well what they were watching. This is strikingly apparent in the police accounts of the Bolshevik-dominated “conspirators’ congress” in April 1905, which followed Russia’s military defeat to Japan and the onset of revolution. The tsar’s leading man in London, Jean Edgar Farce, wrote home of one participant, a “35-year-old man, rather small, yellowish complexion, freckles, brown hair, little blonde beard, black suit, black felt hat” — without knowing who he was.

British police had little more insight. One Special Branch officer claimed that, thanks to a tip-off from the landlord of the pub where the congress was held, he was able to eavesdrop from inside a cupboard. Accounts vary as to whether the policeman thus hidden in the Crown and Woolpack was even able to understand Russian: his filing from the next session of the congress, at a different pub, lamely reported that it had passed a vote “for revolution.”

The tsarist agent who failed to identify the man in the felt hat — the sumptuously named Monsieur Farce — cuts a rather tragic figure in this book, forever bewailing his Okhrana superiors’ disinterest in funding a proper effort to trail the Iskraites in London. In this turn-of-the-century context, the specter of the “bomb-throwing anarchist” — or its Russian populist analog — rather more troubled the regime than the more theory-oriented circles around Lenin.

Such an outlook also colored the British tabloids’ attempts to dramatize the staging of the 1907 RSDLP congress — combining Red Scare with a certain fascination for these émigré revolutionaries. Hence the May 25, 1907 Penny Illustrated Paper luridly depicted the congress with a photomontage headlined “Plotters Against a Throne” — a picture of the unassuming venue was cast against the backdrop of a ball-shaped bomb with a snaking fuse.

The London press was particularly fascinated by women members of the RSDLP — whom it termed “suffragists,” for want of any other British analog. The Mirror salaciously presented a “young girl delegate” who called for “war at any price,” and, it worried, spoke of “barricades and bombs much as the average English girl will chatter about bridge and lawn tennis.” In an era of increasing restrictions on immigrants following the 1905 Aliens Act, the press cast the Russian revolutionaries as violent and otherworldly.

Humanized Lenin

In contrast to such demonization, Henderson allows us to see a human Lenin. Enthusiasts for his Iskra interventions were struck that the real man was much younger than his writing made him sound — and with more of a sense of humor. Checking the stenograph of one of his 1907 congress interventions, Lenin is unable to speak, his body gripped by “happy, loud, full and unconstrained laughter” when he is quoted as damning a “powerless duck” (bessil’naia utka) when, in fact, he said “weak subterfuge” (bessil’naia uteka).

Of particular focus in Henderson’s account is Lenin’s love life — and his intimate relationship with Yakubova, the teacher at the heart of the East London Socialist Lecturers’ Society. Where Soviet accounts long refrained from portraying Lenin as more than husband to Krupskaya — even the 1981 film Lenin in Paris was coy about his relationship with Inessa Armand — Henderson here tells of another “love” that continued from Russia to London, before a political split with painful personal consequences.

We began by noting a turn in history writing away from the Lenin portrayed by both Soviet hagiography and its opponents — the depersonalized Lenin, which had reproduced his own obsessions with Marxism as “science” and programmatic dispute. With the literal pulling down of Lenin statues across the former USSR, the interest in a more “flesh-and-blood” version of the man seems obvious — an understanding that can reflect on his material existence and inner life while refraining from mere pop psychology.

This is not a wholly unbeaten track. Valentinov’s Encounters with Lenin and its call to discover the “non-geometric Lenin” dates back to the 1960s. We could similarly look to a text like Karl Radek’s 1924 account of the fateful rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, which whimsically recounts the Bolshevik leader’s invention of a ticket system for the train’s toilet — as well as his secret satisfaction at being greeted by well-wishers. The embalmed corpse on the Red Square is hardly the only Lenin we know.

But with its walk-on roles for Leon Trotsky, Maxim Gorky, and Peter Kropotkin, The Spark That Lit the Revolution especially succeeds in evoking Lenin’s life within the émigré milieu — an apparently marginal scene whose activity proved decisive in shaping the revolution of 1917. Fussy, confrontational, and obsessed with books and study, Lenin was also a part of this world. He was an exile, the younger brother of an executed revolutionary and the leader of a faction whose success seemed anything but likely.

One hundred fifty years after Lenin’s birth, Henderson’s book does something to bring him back to life. So, happy birthday, Lenin — we’re glad that Monsieur Farce didn’t catch up with you.

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JPSC Result: JPSC released the result of Jharkhand Civil Service Exam 2016

JPSC selects candidates for Jharkhand Civil Service on the basis of prelims and main exams. The main exam consists of written examination and interview.

New Delhi: JPSC Result: Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) has released the final result of Combined Civil Service Exam 2016. For this recruitment process, the interviews of the candidates who succeeded in the examination were conducted from 24 February to 7 March. Let us know that JPSC selects candidates for Jharkhand Civil Service on the basis of prelims and main exam. The main exam consists of written examination and interview.

The notification for the State Civil Service Examination (2016) was released in 2016 itself. The Preliminary Exam was held on 18 December 2016. Its result was released on 23 February 2017. 5,138 candidates had success in the prelims exam.

According to the rules of JPSC, the candidates who are successful in the prelims exam can join the main exam. However, a reserved category candidate had filed a petition regarding the result that the candidates of the unreserved category whose number is less than that, have been qualified. After this, the state government decided that the reserved work candidates whose numbers are equal to or more than the number of the last selected candidates will be qualified for the main exam. After this announcement, 6,103 candidates were qualified for the main exam.

Explain that till now the state government has not conducted the civil service examination for the years 2017, 2018 and 2019. The commission had planned to conduct the combined exam for all three years. Notifications for this were also released in February 2020. However, the notice was withdrawn only after two days.

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The First Earth Day Was 50 Years Ago, But These Photos Feel Timeless

Fifty years ago, before the environment was seen as a political cause, it united everyone.

Students march through the business district of suburban St. Louis on April 22, 1970, protesting against smog caused by automobiles.

An estimated 7,000 people gather at the Independence Mall in Philadelphia, on the first Earth Day.

On April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day, millions of Americans around the country went outside for teach-ins and community cleanup events, in addition to marches protesting the mistreatment of the planet.

Compared to protests about racial inequality or the Vietnam War, the environment at the time was seen as a neutral cause that everyone could get behind — so much so that the original Earth Day was proposed by a US senator (Gaylord Nelson, from Wisconsin of all places) who worked with ecology professor Morton Hilbert and activist Denis Hayes to put it all together.

There hadn't been a concerted public effort to undermine science yet, so the main counterargument to Earth Day at the time was that because it fell on the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birthday, the movement was somehow communist. In actuality, the date had been chosen at random because it suited college break schedules.

There wasn't another Earth Day celebration until 1990, and it didn't become an annual event until 2000. While climate change was not yet a major topic at the original Earth Day, some of the demands for sustainable energy and more careful consumption are in line with the student-led climate marches of 2019, which drew millions of schoolchildren to the streets.

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CBSE begins registration process for Ganga Quest, Check complete details here

CBSE Ganga Quest Registration Begins: As per the official notification, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has started the registration process for the ‘Ganga Quest’ today. The registration process for the national-level quiz competition has commenced from today i.e. 22nd April 2020 and will continue for a month until 22nd May 2020. For 2020 edition of the Ganga Quest competition, the registration process start has coincided with the World Earth Day while the conclusion of the same will fall on the World Biodiversity Day. Students and candidates who want to participate in the Ganga Quest can register themselves by logging onto the official portal.

Ganga Question - An Initiative by Jal Shakti Ministry

The Ganga Quest is part of the National Mission for Cleaning Ganga by the Ministry of Jal Shakti which is implementing various projects to rejuvenate the river and its tributaries under the flagship programme - Namai Gange. 

The National Mission for Cleaning Ganga in association with the Tree Craze Foundation organizes the Ganga Quest which is an online National Quiz on Ganga which is conducted with an aim to increase the public participation for Namai Gange programme and enhance the ownership of children and youth for the Ganga river and its tributaries. 

The registration details are available on the official website - gangaquest.com. A direct link for the registration is also provided below. 

Ganga Quest Official Link

According to the notification provided on the official website, the prize money for the winners of the national quiz will be handed over on June 5, 2020, which is also celebrated as National Environment Day.

The complete details regarding the Ganga Quest are available on the official website. Those interested to participate in the national Quiz on the Ganga can visit the official website to check the complete information. 

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Germany approves first trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidate

The trial, only the fourth worldwide of a preventive agent targeting the virus behind the global pandemic, will be conducted on 200 healthy people aged between 18 and 55 in the first stage, and on further people, including those at higher risk from the disease, in a second stage.

Germany's vaccines regulator approved live human testing of a potential vaccine against the Covid-19 virus developed by German biotech company BioNTech, the regulator said in a statement on Wednesday.

The trial, only the fourth worldwide of a preventive agent targeting the virus behind the global pandemic, will be conducted on 200 healthy people aged between 18 and 55 in the first stage, and on further people, including those at higher risk from the disease, in a second stage.

BioNTech said it was developing the vaccine candidate, named BNT162, together with its partner, pharma giant Pfizer. Tests of the vaccine were also planned in the United States, once regulatory approval for testing on humans had been secured there.

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