October is celebrated as National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) globally. In order to bring attention to Cyber Security and as a concentrated effort to stay safe and secure online, NCSAM is celebrated all over the world. It is an initiative to put conscious efforts towards ensuring better cybersecurity hygiene and incorporate stronger security measures.

As a part of World Food Day on 16th October 2020, an online quiz competition on “Anna Devo Bhava – Food for All” was conducted by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, in coordination with MyGov from 1st October 2020 to 16th October 2020 intending to create awareness among youth and masses about different aspects of food such as – food for marginalized, food as a purifier, food as spirituality, food for the healthy, etc.

Philately Division, Department of Posts, Government of India announced a Stamp Design (Photography) Contest on the occasion of Independence Day 2020, on 8th July 2020. The theme of the Stamp Design (Photography) Contest was “UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India (Cultural)”.

Shhhh! It is a fresh tiger kill! There should be tiger nearby…. The team of tiger trackers and the Range Officer talk in hushed tones after coming upon the Sambhar carcass. They look for the Tiger’s pugmarks in the sands beside the tall grasses on the banks of the river. “Angad ka pugmark hai. Size dekhiye (It is Angad’s pugmark. Look at the size),” the tiger tracker explains.

Dr Parul, a physician working in London came back to India in the second week of March, along with her mother. She landed in Delhi to reach Chandigarh. Meanwhile, I developed a fever on the way. Since being herself a doctor, intuitively, she sensed that this could be COVID-19 and went straight to the hospital. The hospital hadn’t handled any positive case of COVID-19 yet, and these were early times of the pandemic in India. So, the doctors were extremely skeptical. But they finally relented and admitted her at their quarantine center.