Published on: March 5, 2022
SNIPPETS – 5 MARCH 2022
SNIPPETS – 5 MARCH 2022
- Chief minister presented Karnataka Budget 2022
- Andhra Pradesh government announced that ₹5 lakh per acre financial package would be given to the farmers who parted with their lands for the Polavaram irrigation project prior to the enactment of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
- A Member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has been opposing the RBI’s accommodative policy stance
- A team of scientists from the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have discovered a new gin berry species from the Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu. The species is Glycosmis albicarpa
- Kavach, an indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection System showcased on South Central Railway Friday, is earmarked for aggressive rollout on 2,000 km in 2022-23, according the Budget proposals. It is railway protection service, which prevents collision
- Government has approved the scheme – Modernisation Plan-IV for Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) in continuation of the scheme “Modernisation Plan-III for CAPFs. It is under Ministry of Home Affairs
- The Kaliyattam festival is an annual Theyyam festival held in the temples in Kerala’s Malabar region. It is a dance festival
- Former Army Chief Gen Sunith Francis Rodrigues passes away
- The Delhi government inaugurated the Delhi Teachers University, which will offer programmes such as BA-BEd and BSc-BEd. The programmes at the university have been designed to ensure that teacher-trainees in the university spend 30-50% of their time in schools and get hands-on learning experience from the very first month of their course.
- India on Friday abstained on a vote at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva as the Council decided to set up an international commission of enquiry into Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
- Shane Warne, one of cricket’s greatest spinners, passed away
- The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) is an international treaty that prohibits all use, transfer, production and stockpiling of cluster bombs.
- Government of India & International Telecommunication Union (ITU) signed the Host Country Agreement (HCA). It Provides the legal and financial framework for the establishment and operations of the Area Office and innovation center of ITU in New Delhi, India
