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.
7th. In India, 19 February is marked as the Soil Health Card Day to commemorate the launch of the Soil Health Card (SHC) Scheme and create awareness about the benefits of the scheme.