Published on: December 17, 2022

Snippets – 17 December 2022

Snippets – 17 December 2022

  • The South Western Railway (SWR) has issued work order for redevelopment of Bengaluru Cantonment station into a “world class terminal.”
  • Bengaluru will host the upcoming Army Day parade on January 15, 2023
  • A grammatical problem that has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th Century BC has finally been solved by an Indian PhD student Rishi Rajpopat at the University of Cambridge
  • Bill Kirkman, a long-time U.K.-based columnist journalist associated with, The Hindu, a former Africa and Commonwealth correspondent for The Times newspaper, and an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge, passed away
  • Japan shakes up its defence policy, by vowed to increase defence spending to 2% of GDP by 2027, reshape its military command, and acquire new missiles that can strike far-flung enemy launch sites and warns china
  • Neeraj Chopra displaces Usain Bolt in global interest charts with 812 articles followed by laine Thompson-Herah , world 100m champion Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce and world 200m champion Shericka Jackson
  • The Airports Council International (ACI) has awarded Mangaluru International Airport with the ‘Voice of the Customer’ award.
  • CARINGS portal for adoption maintained by CARA revamped to ensure online processing of adoption cases expeditiously and transparently
  • The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan), Government of India organised “DIVYAKALSHAKTI” -2022 at Guwahati
  • Paradip Port achieved another milestone by handling highest ever cargo traffic of in a single day in 2022
  • Ministry of culture in collaboration with Prasiddha foundation organises Delhi International Arts Festival at Kartavya Path with the tagline – ‘Where Bharat Meets India’