On the occasion of World Wetlands Day 2022, the Government of India added Khijadiya Wildlife sanctuary, Gujarat & Bakhira Wildlife sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh added as new Ramsar sites.
Veteran Nobel-winning virologist Luc Montagnier died in Paris recently. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 for the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS, along with his colleague Francoise Barr-Sinoussi.