World Health Organization has re-appointed Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director-General of WHO for the second term with effect from 16th August 2022. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is an Ethiopian public health researcher, and official who has been Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017.
May 12 is being celebrated as International Nurses' Day across the world to honour the services of nurses. It is the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale.
Poumai tribe, one of the major Naga tribes living in Manipur's hill district, Senapati have declared their villages a no-drugs zone to help the state government curb the drugs menace including illegal poppy cultivation.