Published on: November 11, 2021

SNIPPETS – 11 NOVEMBER 2021

SNIPPETS – 11 NOVEMBER 2021

  • Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs has provided an opportunity to open Vana Dhana Vikas Kendra to provide a market to the minor forest products collected by tribals in Madikeri district. Van Dhan Vikas Kendras constituted under VAN DHAN scheme, provide skill up-gradation and capacity building training and setting up of primary processing and value addition facilities
  • From this year, the Karnataka government has decided to celebrate ‘Onake Obavva Jayanti’ on November 11 throughout the state.She is a brave woman warrior of Chitradurga who Died fighting the troops of Hyder Ali
  • Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) that was suspended due to COVID has been resumed where MPs to get ₹2 cr. each instead of previously approved ₹5 cr. The scheme started in 1993 Provides a mechanism for the Members of Parliament to recommend works of developmental nature for creation of durable community assets and for provision of basic facilities including community infrastructure, based on locally felt needs.
  • Conservation biologists of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, will collaring 10 fishing cats in the Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS) in Andhra Pradesh
  • National Education Day of India is celebrated every year on 11 November to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  • Abu Dhabi passed a law allowing non-Muslims to marry, divorce and get joint child custody under civil law in the country.
  • Russian authorities there have set an ambitious goal of making the SAKHALIN ISLAND — Russia’s largest — carbon neutral by 2025
  • Nepal Army Chief General Prabhu Ram Sharma was on Wednesday conferred the honorary rank of General of the Indian Army by President at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. It is a customary practice by the two countries to confer the honorary rank of General on each other’s Army Chiefs.
  • The Prime Minister has congratulated Manu Bhaker, Rahi Sarnobat, Saurabh Chaudhary and Abhishek Verma for winning medals at the ISSF President’s Cup in Poland.
  • India launched ‘E-Amrit’, a web portal on electric vehicles (EVs), at the ongoing COP26 Summit in Glasgow, UK. E-Amrit is a one-stop destination for all information on electric vehicles—busting myths around the adoption of EVs, their purchase, investment opportunities, policies, subsidies, etc.The portal has been developed and hosted by NITI Aayog
  • National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) is a not-for-profit Company under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) with the mission to make the internet accessible to everyone. To facilitate its customers and partners, NIXI has gone digital by enabling digital payments across its three business units by integrating payment gateways on all its customer-facing websites for ease of use.