Published on: January 15, 2024
Snippets : 15 JANUARY 2024
Snippets : 15 JANUARY 2024
- Makaravilakku is an annual festival held on Makara Sankranti in Kerala, India at the shrine of Sabarimala
- Urdu poet Munawwar Rana passes away
- The State Bank of India (SBI) recently introduced the SBI Green Rupee Term Deposit (SGRTD) scheme to mobilise funds to support environment friendly initiatives and projects
- Astronomers recently unveiled the discovery of an Earth-like planet, younger and closer than any previously identified, named HD 63433d
- Prime Minister condoles demise of renowned classical singer, Dr. Prabha Atre
- Indian Navy Ships Cheetah, Guldar and Kumbhir were decommissioned. Cheetah, Guldar and Kumbhir were built at Gdynia Shipyard, Poland as Polnocny class Landing Ships and were commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1984, 1985 and 1986 respectively
- Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh approves proposal to launch Group (Term) Insurance Scheme for Casual Paid Labourers engaged by BRO . Family to get insured value of Rs 10 lakh as insurance in any kind of CPL death
- India’s First National Highway Steel Slag Road section on NH- 66 Mumbai-Goa National Highway inaugurated. JSW Steel, under the CSIR-CRRI technological guidance, has constructed the 1 km long four lane steel slag road section on Indapur-Panvel Section of NH-66 Mumbai-Goa
- State-of-art AI supported Telemedicine Mobile Clinic launched for remote hilly areas in Udhampur
- India is set to become the world’s largest producer of lentil (masoor) during the 2023-24 crop years on account of higher acreage + Crucial component of the Indian diet + Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra are among the leading states in terms of lentil cultivation
- Himalayan Wolf recategorized as Vulnerable by IUCN
- Pench Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra has been designated as Dark Sky Park fifth in Asia, protecting the night sky and preventing light pollution
- DRDO conducts successful flight-test of New Generation AKASH missile off Odisha coast + Surface-to-air new generation missile
- Rising sea level and erosion of the beach in front of the Kapil Muni temple on Sagar Island are turning out to be a damper on the Ganga Sagar Mela. It is a ritualistic bath in West Bengal on sankranti
