Published on: February 20, 2024
Snippets : 20 FEBRUARY 2024
Snippets : 20 FEBRUARY 2024
- Well-known novelist, playwright and poet K T Gatti passed away. Gatti’s first novel in Kannada language was ‘Shabdagalu’ which was published in 1976. ‘Shabdagalu’, before being published as a novel, had appeared as a serial in the weekly Kannada magazine, Sudha, sister publication of Deccan Herald. His non-fiction books – ‘Parenting for Excellency’, ‘Bilingual Master’, ‘Teach your Child English and Kannada Together’, ‘Learn English Naturally through Kannada’ and others have been hailed as significant contributions to education.
- The ongoing Kula Mama Volleyball Tournament-2024 in Melghat Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra sends a strong message to save tigers and the pristine forest with the involvement of local youths
- A team of researchers have discovered a new species of damselfly at the Ponmudi hills in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala
- Government has renamed ‘Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a director’ as ‘Best Debut Film of a Director’ and ‘Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration’ as ‘Best Feature Film Promoting National, Social and Environmental Values’
- Karnataka is the first state in India to declare snakebite a notifiable disease
- INCOIS, ISRO to study rip currents for safer beaches. They are Powerful, narrow channels of fast-moving water that flow from the shore to deeper water, often perpendicular to the shoreline
- A UN convention on the conservation of migratory species of wild animals (CMS) adopted India’s initiative for the Central Asian Flyway (CAF) and agreed to list 14 additional migratory species from across the globe for conservation in the CMS appendices
