The United Nations (UN) General Assembly approved Volker Turk of Austria to be the global body's Human Rights Chief by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Teachers' Day or Shikshak Divas marks the birthday of the country's first Vice President (1952-1962) who went on to become the second President of India (1962-1967), a scholar, philosopher, Bharat Ratna awardee, Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan.
The Odisha government has launched a rainwater harvesting scheme named 'Community Harnessing and Harvesting Rainwater Artificially from Terrace to Aquifer (CHHATA).
The cervical cancer vaccine, Cervavac, is a Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV)developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
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