Published on: February 8, 2024
Snippets : 7-8 FEBRUARY 2024
Snippets : 7-8 FEBRUARY 2024
- Dusted Apollo (Parnassius stenosemus), a rare high-altitude butterfly, has been sighted and photographed for the first time in Himachal Pradesh
- Aster CMI Hospital Bengaluru has launched an AI-powered tool to help clinicians efficiently diagnose carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)
- Karnataka traffic police launched the e-challan traffic fine system – first State in the country to go 100% paperless – The initiative is a collaboration of the State Police, the SBI and the State Treasury Department
- Karnataka bans sale and consumption of hookah
- Uttarakhand Assembly passed the Uniform Civil Code + The UCC is based on a draft submitted by a committee formed by the Uttarakhand government under the chairmanship of retired Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai
- Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary -Tripura
- In the first-ever Tri-State synchronised vulture survey 320 individual vultures were counted in the seven-protected areas spread over Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and Himalayan griffon is only reported from Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary
- Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted four flight trials of the high-speed expendable aerial target ‘ABHYAS’
- The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Bill, 2024, was introduced in Lok Sabha to bring greater transparency, fairness and credibility to the public examinations system
- Union education ministry launched EdCIL Vidyanjali Scholarship Programme + Aims for seamless transition from secondary to higher education and extending financial support for the meritorious Navodaya Vidyalaya students
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K) has successfully established and tested India’s first Hypervelocity Expansion Tunnel Test Facility + Test for atmospheric entry of vehicles, asteroid entry, scramjet flights, and ballistic missiles
- Healthy Indian Project (THIP), a health information platform in India, is included as a member of the World Health Organization’s Vaccine Safety Net (VSN)
- Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) have been allowed by the Government to operate Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Kendras (PMBJK) under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Pariyojana
