by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 14, 2020 | News in Brief
The founder of the Diarrhoeal Diseases Control Programme, Dr Dhiman Barua (1920-2020), who was the pioneer in promoting Oral Rehydration Salt Solution (ORS) for diarrhoea, passed away in September 2020, just two months before his 100th birthday. Dr Barua’s work on...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 14, 2020 | News in Brief
As per news reports in September 2020, the European Commission will table a plan with a view to reforming the bloc’s asylum system and organise a fair redistribution of asylum-seekers across the EU. It is the latest in a series of similar, though unsuccessful, reform...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 14, 2020 | News in Brief
As per the news reports in September 2020, some 54 infants died in Baksa district of Assam in the months of April, May, and June 2020 despite a number of schemes, launched by the Central as well as the State Governments to check infant and maternal mortality rates....
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 14, 2020 | News in Brief
As per the news reports in September 2020, a bird atlas—Kerala Bird Atlas—has been compiled by a team of over 1,000 birdwatchers, associated with natural history societies and ornithology clubs across the Kerala, after strenuous exercise extending 5years. This was...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 13, 2020 | News in Brief
In Spain, children over six are being asked to wear masks, while Denmark has issued a 10 p.m. curfew for bars and restaurants in the capital. In parts of England, households have been banned from meeting as the government introduces tighter restrictions following a...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 13, 2020 | News in Brief
A painting by VS Gaitonde (1924–2001) sold for Rs 35.5 crore on September 17, 2020, at an evening sale by auction house Saffronart. The painting, an untitled green work from 1974, is now the second-highest selling Indian artwork. The first, also by Gaitonde, sold for...
