Published on: January 23, 2024
Snippets : 22-23 JANUARY 2024
Snippets : 22-23 JANUARY 2024
- The Forest Department of Tamil Nadu has cleared 356.50 hectares of invasive growth of Senna spectabilis that posed a threat to biodiversity conservation in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR)
- The Indian Vice President recently inaugurated the 12th General Assembly of the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace in New Delhi. It was founded in 1970 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Its aim is to bring together the efforts of Buddhists in support of consolidating universal peace, harmony, and cooperation among people in Asia
- Recently, a team from the Thackeray Wildlife Foundation (TWF) has discovered the first-ever viviparous skink genus and five new species belonging to it from peninsular India
- Japan recently landed a spacecraft called SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) on the lunar surface, becoming the 5th country after the Soviet Union, the US, China and India to achieve a soft landing on the moon
- The recently launched Forgotten Trails: Foraging Wild Edibles, authored by Malemleima Ningombi and Harisha RP, chronicled the foods that Soligas and Yeravas tribes forage from the forests. Indigenous groups Soligas and Yeravas have been living in the Cauvery Basin and the surrounding hills of peninsular India for thousands of years
- Chief Minister of Odisha unveiled a sprawling heritage corridor around the Jagannath Temple in Puri
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed an improvised Distress Alert Transmitter (DAT) with advanced capabilities and features for the fishermen at sea to send emergency messages from fishing boats. The first version of DAT has been operational since 2010
- UCO Bank entered into an MoU with Poornatha and Company to launch UCO Empower, an online training programme for MSME customers in vernacular languages under the bank’s CSR activity
- MNRE launches SIGHT scheme to incentivise production of green hydrogen + Acronym – Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition + Aim – Bolster domestic electrolyser manufacturing and green hydrogen production
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the ‘Pradhan Mantri Suryodaya Yojana’, a government scheme under which one crore households will get rooftop solar power systems
- The recent use of Mosquitofish has led these fishes becoming invasive in India + Called Gambusia + Feed on mosquito + Introduced in India first time in 1928
- In a first-of-its-kind model of convergence, Kanger Valley National Park, Chattisgarh is working with a coalition of various organizations and government departments to prepare a landscape-based ecological restoration plan for the national park
- Indian Immunologicals Ltd (IIL) a wholly owned subsidiary of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) launched India’s first indigenously developed Hepatitis A vaccine ‘Havisure’ in Hyderabad
- 19th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit was held in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Uganda has taken over as chair from Azerbaijan, to run until 2027. Theme: ‘Deepening Cooperation for Shared Global Affluence’
- Air India launched its maiden scheduled commercial flight of the Airbus A350-900 from Bengaluru to Mumbai
