Published on: November 18, 2021
SNIPPETS – 17-18 NOVEMBER 2021
SNIPPETS – 17-18 NOVEMBER 2021
- Puneeth Rajkumar to get Karnataka Ratna award posthumously For his contributions to cinema and social service
- Karnataka promulgated an Ordinance for the amendment of the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976, and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Act, 2020. This amendment will allow the civic body to collect ground rent, licence fee, building plan approval fee, scrutiny fee, and security deposit.
- Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday said an Australian consulate would be set up in Bengaluru and also announced the establishment of Australia-India Centre of Excellence for Critical and Emerging Technology Policy, while addressing the inaugural session of the Bengaluru Tech Summit.
- Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is an eye disease that could causes blindness in premature babies. KIDROP is the flagship tele-ROP programme started by Narayana Nethralaya in association with the Karnataka Government in 2009. It is a tele-medicine platform that helps pre-term babies born in neo-natal intensive care units (NICUs) who do not have an ROP specialist to screen and treat babies on time.
- A student outreach programme called “Education on Wheels”, that will provide an immersive learning experience to students of community schools in rural areas was launched by Reva University
- Sixteen girl students from Belagavi district, who have excelled in Kannada in school, have been awarded a one-time scholarship by ‘Keli Katheya’, a Kannada audiobook initiative.Keli Katheya was started in 2014 to bring alive some Kannada short stories in an audio format though film artistes’ voices. Profits generated from the sale of the audio book go towards supporting the education of girls in the border areas of Karnataka.
- The 16th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2021 (Rural) was released by Pratham foundation.
- West Bengal launched an ambitious “Duare Ration” scheme for providing foodgrains under the public distribution system at the doorstep for the entire population.
- Prime Minister inaugurated the 341 km long six-lane Purvanchal Expressway. The Purvanchal Expressway connects Lucknow-Sultanpur road (NH-731) and National Highway No. 31, 18 km east of UP-Bihar border and can be expanded to eight-lane in the future.
- National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), a public enterprise under Ministry of Steel celebrated its 64th Formation Day. It is India’s largest exporter & producer of iron ore, located in Hyderabad established in 1958. It maintains the nation’s sole diamond mine at Patna in MP
- The ‘India@75 BRO Motorcycle Expedition’ has successfully completed the third leg covering 2,450 kilometres in less than 11 days and reached Doom Dooma, Assam on November 14, 2021 after being flagged off from Siliguri on November 05, 2021.
- Country’s first-of-its kind, dedicated business incubator to be known as LINAC- NCDC Fisheries Business Incubation Centre (LlFlC) was inaugrated in Haryana’s Gurugram.National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC), an implementing agency for the LIFIC
- 380 endangered Indian star tortoises seized in Karnataka. They are protected under Schedule IV of Wild Life Protection Act, 1972
- The 52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is paying a special tribute to Sir Sean Connery, the first actor to portray the most famous fictional British spy, James Bond on the big screen.
- India has slipped to 82nd position in 2021, five places down from 77th rank last year, in a global list that measures business bribery risks. The list by TRACE, an anti-bribery standard setting organisation, measures business bribery risk in 194 countries, territories, and autonomous and semi-autonomous regions.
- State of the art, prototype Air Pollution Control Tower (APCT) developed inhouse by BHEL in Noida was recently inaugurated. Designed and developed by BHEL’s Corporate R&D Division, manufactured at its HEEP Haridwar plant, and installed by Power Sector [NR] Noida, the APCT operates by pulling polluted air through its base and capturing the particulate matter in filters installed in the tower. Clean air is then released from the top of the tower. The captured particulate matter gets collected in the hopper at the bottom of the APCT for periodic removal for disposal.
- The Vice President,addressing scientists and staff of the U R Rao Satellite Centre suggested to ISRO to give a thrust to the indigenously-developed regional navigation satellite system, NaVIC for global use.
- The Ganga Connect Exhibition was inaugurated in Birmingham on 15th November, 2021 at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire after successful inaugurations at Glasgow and Cardiff, UK.
- Union Minister of State for Culture inaugurated the three-day festival “Kashi Utsav” in Varanasi. It aims to celebrate iconic luminaries of Kashi. A theme has been dedicated to each day of the festival and these are: ‘Kashi ke Hastakshar’; ‘Kabir, Raidas ki Bani aur Nirgun Kashi’ and ‘Kavita aur Kahani – Kashi ki Zubani’
- Visakhapatnam, a P15B stealth guided missile destroyer named after the port city of Andhra Pradesh on the East coast, is to be commissioned into the Indian Navy.It is indigenously designed and packed with sophisticated ‘state of the art’ weapons and sensors such as Surface to Surface Missile and Surface to Air Missiles
- Pochampally village in Telangana is set to be named as one of the best Tourism Villages by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)
