Current Affairs - January 2022
The Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change recently chaired the 19th Meeting of the National Tiger Conservation Authority. What is the name of the minister?
The Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change Shri Bhupender Yadav chaired the 19th Meeting of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
The Ministry of Textiles has further extended the timeline for submission of applications under the PLI Scheme for Textiles. Total financial outlay- Rs 10,683 crore.
Noted Kathakali dancer Milena Salvini of France passed away. Italian-born Salvini was a regular visitor to India, especially Kerala where she learnt Kathakali and ran 'Centre Mandapa', a school for Indian dance forms, in Paris.
The woman is a leukaemia patient and received a stem cell transplant from someone with natural resistance to the Aids-causing virus. An umbilical cord blood transplant was done, as a part of her cancer treatment.