Published on: February 18, 2022
SNIPPETS – 18 FEBRUARY 2022
SNIPPETS – 18 FEBRUARY 2022
- Actor Darshan appointed as ambassador of Zoo Authority of Karnataka
- Karnataka Health Department has relaunched its cochlear implant programme that had come to a standstill since 2018-2019. Under the original programme titled “Shravanadosha Mukta Karnataka” (Deafness Free Karnataka) started in 2016-2017, a hundred cochlear implant surgeries had been done for children under the age of six years However, the programme came to a halt in 2018 due to lack of funds. Recently , under the programme, a three-year-old male child from Ramanagaram underwent the surgery at the State-run K C General Hospital
- The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has relaxed the eligibility criteria for accreditation of higher educational institutions.
- Tamil Nadu has made it clear to the Supreme Court that it does not want the Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) to be set up in a sensitive ecological zone in the Western Ghats at a great cost to wildlife and biodiversity, and by ignoring the local opposition to the project.
- India’s first water taxi service was inaugurated in Maharashtra recently, that connects the Navi Mumbai area to mainland Mumbai.
- National Institute of Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad developed Fluorine Doped Tin Oxide (FTO) electrode fabricated with reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) for as an electrochemical based immunosensor for the rapid, sensitive and specific detection of the Non-Structural 1 (NS1) secretory protein, which is suitable biomarker for Japanese encephalitis virus found circulating in the blood and has been reported to elicit an immune response.
- The Supreme Court set aside a Punjab and Haryana High Court order staying a controversial State law which provides 75% reservation for local youth in private sector jobs paying less than ₹30,000 a month.
- Kuwait’s constitutional court has struck down a contentious law long used to criminalise transgender people by forbidding the “imitation of the opposite sex.” The law had set the maximum penalty for cross-dressing at one-year in prison or a fine of USD 3,300.
- Inviting Taiwanese companies to make more investments in Karnataka, Large and Medium Industries Minister promised to extend support and cooperation of the state government
