Published on: May 12, 2022
SNIPPETS – 12 MAY 2022
SNIPPETS – 12 MAY 2022
- The Karnataka government has proposed regularisation of properties in capital city Bengaluru by issuing legal documents — khatas — and property identification numbers (PID) to owners
- Three state-owned oil marketing companies and three public sector banks entered into a long-term purchase agreement for the upcoming five dedicated ethanol plants across India recently
- India observes its National Technology Day on 11th May every year. It is the day India successfully tested nuclear bombs in Pokhran
- Conference of Parties – 15th session of United Nation’s Conference to Combat Desertification was held in Cote d’Ivoire
- In a significant decision, the Supreme Court ordered to keep the colonial-era sedition law in abeyance till the time the Centre re-examined the provision following concerns expressed over its misuse to jail critics of the ruling dispensation
- Veteran Congress leader and former Union minister Pandit Sukh Ram. He is known for his contributions in telecommunications
- Canadian government introduced a Bill that seeks to make Internet platforms such as Google and Facebook pay news publishers for use of their content
