Published on: July 20, 2023

Snippets : 18 JULY 2023

Snippets : 18 JULY 2023

  • Foxconn arm proposes project with 8,800 cr. investment in Tumakuru
  • US. hands over 105 antiquities to India following agreement. The repatriation ceremony was held at the Indian Consulate in New York and the antiquities would soon be transported to India
  • ISRO’s second orbit-raising manoeuvre successful. The manoeuvre was performed by the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru to place the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft in the 41,603x 226 km orbit. This means that the spacecraft is now in an orbit which when closest to earth is 226 km away and farthest is at a distance of 41,603 km.
  • Italian health officials intensified heat warnings as southern Europe began a brutally hot week with temperatures expected to top 40 degrees Celsius
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the new integrated terminal building or NITB of the Veer Savarkar International Airport at Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  • Global Maritime India Summit 2023 to be held in Mumbai
  • The International Energy Agency (IEA) in collaboration with Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) under the aegis of Ministry of Petroleum &Natural Gas launched the Oil 2023 medium-term market report, titled: IEA Oil 2023 – Supply and demand dynamics to 2028
  • NTPC Wins ET HR World Future Skills Awards 2023
  • The first batch of Namda Art products was flagged off for export to the UK
  • The Global Food Regulators Summit 2023 is being organized in Delhi for the first time, as a G20 event.
  • National Multidimensional Poverty Index was released by Niti Aayog
  • Russia ‘exits’ Black sea grain deal to export Ukrainian grain via Black Sea
  • World skill day is celebrated on July 15th every year. This year’s theme for 2023 World Youth Skills Day is “Skilling teachers, trainers, and youth for a transformative future.”
  • MoU signed to establish 1st campus of IIT Delhi in Abu Dhabi