Published on: November 25, 2022

Snippets: 25 November 2022

Snippets: 25 November 2022

  • Australia and India partnering to address India’s water challenges supported by the Ministry of Jal Shakti, the Australian Water Partnership, Western Sydney University, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
  • Exercise GARUDA SHAKTI, military-to-military exchange programs a joint exercise of India and Indonesia
  • MAARG portal is a Mentorship, Advisory, Assistance, Resilience and Growth, is a one stop platform to facilitate mentorship for start-ups across diverse sectors, functions, stages, geographies, and backgrounds.
  • Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW) and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is hosting a special ‘millet luncheon’ with the Ambassadors/High Commissioners of different countries appointed to India for engaging with other nations for a successful and impactful millet awareness programme
  • India, at 19th Meeting of the Conference of Parties at Panama City, presented a proposal for uplifting Batagur Kachuga from Appendix II to Appendix I of the CITES. Red-crowned roofed turtle or Bengal roof turtle (Batagur kachuga),is a species of freshwater turtle endemic to South Asia. IUCN Status is Critically endangered Geographic range spread is  Nepal, India (Himachal Pradesh), Bangladesh, (primarily in the watershed of the Ganges River)
  • India carried out a successful launch of Agni-3 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile from A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha.
  • Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has decided to depute three high-level multi-disciplinary 3-member teams to Ranchi ,Ahmedabad and Malappuram to take stock of the upsurge in cases of Measles
  • Naina Dhakad- Land Adventure, Shri Shubham Dhananjay Vanmali- Water Adventure, Group Captain Kunwar Bhawani Singh Samyal- Life Time Achievement were awarded Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award” (TNNAA) for the year 2021.