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Picture used for representational purpose only PRAYAGRAJ: A whopping number of over 6.88 lakh candidates have applied for the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission’s (UPPSC) most prestigious recruitment exam Combined State/Upper Subordinate Services Examination-2021, commonly known as PCS-2021 and Assistant Conservator of Forest (ACF)/Range Forest Officer (RFO) Services Examination-2021. As per the annual calendar of recruitment exams issued by the commission for 2021, the PCS (Preliminary)-2021 is scheduled to be held on June 13. “Over 6.88 lakh candidates have applied for PCS-2021. Online applications for 400 posts of PCS-2021 and 16 posts of ACF/RFO Recruitment Exam-2021 were accepted from February 5 till March 5,” informed media in-charge of UPPSC Pushkar Srivastava. ....
Madhuri Mishra AGRA: Madhuri Mishra had defied her family and circumstances to become a health worker in 1983. It was just five years after the national immunization programme had been launched in the newly smallpox-free country. For 30 years since then, Madhuri, now 60, walked 8km every day to reach remote villages, immunise those most vulnerable and with the least access to healthcare. Even when they “banned” her from entering. “The first few years were very tough. People didn’t want to get immunised,” she told TOI on Monday. Myths and rumours about vaccines would reach these villages faster than she could. People were worried vaccines would cause infertility, fever or just make them sick with the disease the shot was meant to prevent. “But I’d keep walking, stopping at villages and vaccinating children. It had to be done. At times, people would misbehave. At others, they wouldn’t let me enter. I would keep going back, sometimes with others who had vacci ....
Picture used for representational purpose only PRAYAGRAJ: Soon, three more state universities would be established in the state at Aligarh, Saharanpur and Azamgarh for which the state government has already commenced the process. Giving this information at the convocation function of Prof Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) University in the city recently, deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma said, “Apart from this, a sports university, Ayush university and law university will also be set up in the state. A concrete action plan has been initiated and a 16-member task force has been formed by the government to establish UP as a centre of higher learning.” ....
The state cabinet gave its nod for tabling the ordinance on “forced” or “fraudulent” religious conversions which was promulgated by the UP governmen ....