Published on: January 18, 2023

Snippets – 18 JANUARY 2023

Snippets – 18 JANUARY 2023

  • Karnataka ranks second after Telangana in country for Cadaver organ donations
  • The High Court of Karnataka permitted the State government to use Balabrooie guest house to set up the proposed Constitutional Club, a recreational facility for legislators
  • India sent financing assurances to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) , becoming the first of Sri Lanka’s creditors to officially back the crisis-hit island nation’s debt restructuring programme.China, Japan, and India are Sri Lanka’s three largest bilateral lenders.
  • The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has completed the process of recruitment of tribal youth from Sukma, Bijapur and Dantewada, the districts worst affected by left-wing extremism in Chhattisgarh.
  • Six-year-old muleawarded commendation on Army Day for playing an important role in lifting vital engineering, ammunition and ration loads during advance winter stocking in 2021
  • The 1st Health Working Group meeting under G20 India Presidency will be held in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
  • The joint venture between India and Russia, Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited (IRRPL), has started producing AK-203 Kalashnikov assault rifles at Korwa in Uttar Pradesh
  • AK-203 assault rifles is Russian gas-operated, magazine-fed, select fire assault rifle designed to chamber the 7.62×39mm cartridge. It is one of the latest iterations of the AK series of assault rifles originally designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov