Published on: January 3, 2024
Snippets : 3 JANUARY 2024
Snippets : 3 JANUARY 2024
- ‘Mentor a Student’ initiative + By department of School Education Karnataka + help students score well in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) examination
- Centre has amended the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules of 2021, to allow women government employees and pensioners to nominate their children for receiving family pension over their spouse
- The pristine hills of the Meghamalai in Tamil Nadu have thrown up a new species of ‘silverline’ butterflies
- The Kanaka Line, or Corridor 4, will connect Heealige in southern Bengaluru to Rajanukunte in the northern suburbs over 46.88 km. It will have 19 stations, including Carmelaram, Benniganahalli, Channasandra and Yelahanka
- 5th Millets and Organics International Trade Fair Karnataka held + Karnataka has set a target of doubling its millets export + had exported 7,764 tonnes of millets and their value based products, amounting to about ₹36 crore during 2022-23 + accounted for nearly 40% of the country’s millet production
- Pangolin conservation project has succeeded at Pench Tiger Reserve and Satpura Tiger Reserve + Started after 2019 + Launched by Madhya Pradesh with help of Wildlife Conservation Trust, Mumbai + Indian Pangolin species of pangolin native to the Indian subcontinent – Unique mammals known for their protective keratin scales and are often referred to as “scaly anteaters.”
- Union Govt to end Free Movement Regime with Myanmar + Arrangement as part of the Central government’s Act East policy 2018 + Allowed hill tribes citizens of India or Myanmar to travel within 16 km on either side of the Indo-Myanmar Border (IMB)