Published on: January 25, 2023

Snippets – 25 JANUARY 2023

Snippets – 25 JANUARY 2023

  • The National Girl Child Day is celebrated in India every year on January 24. Government of india did not announce any theme for this year.Theme for 2019 is ‘Empowering Girls for a Brighter Tomorrow’.2020 theme –“my voice,our common future”. 2021 theme- “digital generation, our generation”
  • India elected as Vice-Chair at the 12th session of FAO’s Intergovernmental Technical Working Group (ITWG) on Animal Genetic Resources (AnGR) for Food and Agriculture
  • National Tourism Day will be celebrated on January 25, like every year, to increase public awareness of the significance of the tourism sector. The theme of National Tourism Day 2023 is ‘Rural and Community Centric Tourism’.
  • Judgement Search Portal developed under eCourts Mission Mode Project bagged the prestigious Digital India Award 2022 in Category- Digital Empowerment of Citizens under the patronage of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India and National e-Governance Award 2021-2022 in ‘Gold Category’ under the patronage of Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances.
  • SCO Film Festival held at Mumba Marathi Film ‘Godavari’ and Gujarati Film ‘The Last Film Show’ nominated under Competition Section from India. The festival will open with a world premiere of Tamil film ‘Appatha’
  • National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and Wildlife Institute of India (WII) organised a one-day national level seminar on ‘Millets for LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment): Developing Climate Resilient Local Communities in the Ganga Basin’ at India International Centre in New Delhi
  • Millets Mahotsav -Two-day Millets Conclave organised at Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh to bring all the stakeholders of the food processing sector with special focus on millets, on a common platform
  • The first India Stack Developer Conference that will dwell on ways and means to ensure wider adoption of India’s digital goods all over the world will be held in New Delhi
  • ‘BharOS’, a Made In India mobile operating system developed by IIT Madras.
  • The biennial Tri-Services Amphibious Exercise, AMPHEX 2023 was conducted at Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh
  • The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, in collaboration with the Government of Rajasthan, has organized a two-day Agriculture Festival-Exhibition and Training at Dussehra Ground in Kota, Rajasthan
  • Mary Kom to head panel on sex abuse probe against WFI chief
  • Odisha State Disaster Management Authority and Lunglei Fire Station, Mizoram, selected in the Institutional Category for Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar-2023