Published on: October 27, 2022
Snippets: 27 October 2022
Snippets: 27 October 2022
- The Horticulture Department will soon set up its own nurseries in Lalbagh Botanical Garden and Cubbon Park. The nursery in Cubbon Park is already propagating a few varieties and will soon open its door to the public to buy saplings from.
- Naganna Gowda as the new chairperson of Karnataka State Commission for Child Rights (KSCPCR) for a term of three years.
- Jamkhandi in Bagalkot district, will get a ‘flex fuel’ station that will be India’s first. Flex fuel, or flexible fuel, is an alternative fuel in which gasoline is combined with methanol or ethanol.
- The Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM) and the Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering (VVCE) have signed an MoU to establish a centre of excellence and train students at the VVCE campus in Mysuru.
- The BSE has launched electronic gold receipt (EGR) on its platform, a move that will help in efficient and transparent price discovery of the yellow Metal.
- The India’s antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet Inc’s Google for “abusing” its dominant position on its Android mobile app store, the second such penalty for the tech giant.
- Cyclone Sitrang brewed in the Bay of Bengal that lashed Bangladesh left million without power across the delta nation.
- The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in southeastern Ukraine is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 largest in the world.
- Rishi Sunak took charge as Britain’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister, the first person of colour in the chair.
- World polio day is celebrated on October 24th . This year’s theme for the day has been “A healthier future for mothers and children.” and emphasis has been on how polio eradication efforts also play a key role in improving both children’s and mothers’ access to vaccines and other health and nutritional services.
