Month: July 2020

Kala Narayanasamy, Indian-Singaporean Nurse gets President’s Award : July 2020

Kala Narayanasamy was awarded the President’s Award for Nurses. She is also Deputy Director of Nursing, Woodlands Health Campus.

K Narayanasamy was awarded for using infection control practices she learned during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, in the current pandemic.

The Award was one among the five nurses given by the Ministry of Health, Singapore. Given for serving on the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The recipients were awarded a trophy, a certificate signed by President Halimah Yacob and SGD 10,000 ($7,228).

World Record : India’s largest camera-tap tiger census : 2020

75% of world tiger population now in India

India’s tiger census of 2018 has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for being the largest ever camera-trap wildlife survey conducted anywhere in the world.

According to the survey, the country was home to an estimated 2,967 tigers, nearly 75 per cent of the global population. Of all the big cats, 2,461 (around 83 per cent) have been photo-captured.

Apart from setting a new world standard, the results validated India’s efforts in tiger conservation. The country’s tiger population increased by roughly one-third, from 2,226 in 2014 to 2,927 in 2018 .