Published on: February 26, 2024
Snippets : 26 FEBRUARY 2024
Snippets : 26 FEBRUARY 2024
- Karnataka, which in 2021, had the highest installed capacity for renewable energy production in the country, has fallen behind in the last two years. Renewable energy-rich states such as Rajasthan, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, in the last two years, have surpassed Karnataka by increasing their installed capacity by at least 9,000 MW, while Karnataka has been able to add up only 3,000 MW of capacity. Karnataka now stands in the fourth place with respect to installed capacity.
- Filmmaker Kumar Shahani, a parallel cinema icon who directed films such as Maya Darpan, Char Adhyay and Kasba, has died at the age of 83
- Releasing the first commemorative postal stamp on Yakshagana by Karnataka postal Circle
- Bhavani ThekkadaNanjunda, from Napoklu village in Karnataka’s Kodagu district, glides over snow slopes the way fish take to water. The athlete, born in a village only 900 m above sea level, won three golds by competing on the snow slopes at an altitude of 4,000 m in the Khelo India Winter Games
- Deepika Kumari returned to international competition by securing two gold medals as Indian archers made a clean sweep of titles on the final day of the Asia Cup Stage-1 in Baghdad
- Pramod Bhagat wo NSDF Royal Beach Cliff BWF para badminton World championships in Thailand.
- India and Japan kicked off a two-week military exercise ‘Dharma Guardian’ in Rajasthan’s Mahajan field firing range to foster deeper cooperation in confronting common security challenges
- Personalized skin-integrated facial interface (PSiFI), features a first-of-its-kind bidirectional triboelectric strain and vibration sensor that enables the simultaneous sensing and integration of verbal and non-verbal expression data
- Sacred MakhaBucha (Magh Puja) ceremony, one of the five most revered events for Buddhists in Thailand, was gracefully conducted by the esteemed Somdet and other senior monks of Thailand
- Government of Tamil Nadu established the Tamil Nadu Endangered Species Conservation Fund (TNESCF) to protect the purple frog and other lesser-known endangered species
- Justice Nilay Vipinchandra Anjaria took oath as the 34th Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court
- Union government has brought changes to Surrogacy (Regulation) Rules, 2022 + To allow couples certified with medical conditions to use donor gametes for surrogacy
- Prime Minister inaugurated Sudarshan Setu/Signature Bridge, India’s longest cable-stayed bridge, in the Gulf of Kutch + To link mainland Gujarat with Bet Dwarka island off Okha coast in Devbhumi Dwarka
- In collaboration with the BharatGPT ecosystem led by IIT Bombay, Seetha Mahalaxmi Healthcare (SML) has introduced ‘Hanooman,’ a suite of Indic large language models trained across 22 Indian languages
- 9th edition of the Raisina Dialogue held
