Published on: December 21, 2022
Snippets 21 December 2022
Snippets 21 December 2022
- Urban-20 (U20) event being organised under G20 presidency of India at Gujarat
- The Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “DataSmart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data” under the ‘Data Sharing and Use for Socio Economic Development’ category
- International Human Solidarity Day, observed on December 20, is an international annual unity day of the United Nations and its member states.
- Jaipur Pink Panthers won 9th Pro Kabaddi League title and runner up is puneri palthan
- Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, an autonomous institution under the aegis of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India has launched a programme to create Impact Leaders in the areas of Environmental-Social-Governance
- Ladakh got its first ever Geographical Indication (GI) Tag to its Raktsey Karpo Apricot.
- Nagaland Forest Department (NFD) announced the re-wilding of ten captive-bred juveniles of Asian Giant Tortoise into Nagaland’s protected forest Ntangki National Park
- Gujarat’s Vadnagar town, the iconic Sun Temple at Modhera, and the rock cut sculptures of Unakoti in Tripura have been added to the tentative list of UNCESO World Heritage Sites
- Social Progress Index (SPI) for States and Districts received by EAC-PM, released reported: Puducherry, Lakshadweep, and Goa emerge as best-performing states and Aizawl (Mizoram), Solan (Himachal Pradesh), and Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) are the top 3 best-performing districts. Jharkhand and Bihar are the least development states
