Published on: December 24, 2021

SNIPPETS – 24 DECEMBER 2021

SNIPPETS – 24 DECEMBER 2021

  • Centre has asked the Karnataka government to complete the construction of 2.02 crore houses under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana- Gramin (PMAY-G), by August 15, 2022
  • The Karnataka government announced a reduction of the tax levied on Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) from the existing 28% to 18%.
  • Plans afoot to uproot Invasive lantana bushes from BRT reserve, Bandipur in Karnataka. They are native of America
  • Scientists have resumed tagging of Olive Ridley turtles at Rushikulya rookery along the Odisha coast, which would help them identify the migration path and places visited by the marine reptiles after congregation and nesting. Researchers of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) are carrying out tagging of the Olive Ridleys at three mass nesting sites — Gahirmatha, Devi River mouth and Rushikulya.
  • The Maharashtra Assembly unanimously cleared the Shakti Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2020, on crimes against women and children.
  • The National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) has regained the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accreditation. NDTL is the only sports dope testing agency in India functioning under Ministry of Youth Affairs
  • The DRDO has successfully flight-tested ABHYAS – the High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of the Bay of Bengal in Odisha.
  • President of India Unveils a Statue of Late Shri P.N. Panicker. Known as the Father of the Library Movement of Kerala, his death anniversary, has been observed in Kerala as Vayanadinam (Reading Day) since 1996.
  • The Indian Army launched a contemporary messaging application named, ASIGMA (Army Secure IndiGeneous Messaging Application) which is a new generation, state of the art, web based application developed entirely in-house by team of officers of the Corps of Signals of the Army. The application is being deployed on the Army’s internal network as a replacement of Army Wide Area Network (AWAN) messaging application
  • Joan Didion, a U.S. literary icon credited with ushering in New Journalism with her essays on Los Angeles life in the tumultuous 1960s, died
  • Symbol of its freedom of Hong Kong Pillar of Shame, a memorial to the victims of the Tiananmen crackdown, dismantled