Published on: August 31, 2023

Snippets : 29 AUGUST 2023

Snippets : 29 AUGUST 2023

  • Global Innovation Alliance Partners’ meet held in Bengaluru
  • Technology centre of American multinational shipping and supply chain management company United Parcel Service (UPS) was inaugurated in This is the company’s first such facility in India.
  • Neeraj Chopra become the first-ever Indian to secure a gold in the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. It was Neeraj’s second and India’s third medal after long jumper Anju Bobby George opened the account in 2003.
  • Karnataka is the second state in India to implement the GreenCo rating whereby industries would be given rating based on their environmental performance indices. The best performers would be identified by CII and the board and reward them
  • Jayanto Banerjee honoured with Barton Lifetime Achievement Award by Indian Institute of Cartoonists
  • Jayanta Mahapatra, one of India’s best known English poets, passed away
  • “Karnataka State Energy Efficiency Action Plan” is prepared by Bureau of Energy Efficiency in association with Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited (KREDL).
  • The project Amber is being implemented in collaboration between National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), Generation India Foundation (GIF) and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • National Sports Day is celebrated on 29 August every year. Theme 2023 is “Sports are an enabler to an inclusive and fit society”
  • Centre approves Rajasthan’s fifth tiger reserve in Dholpur-Karauli
  • ISRO releases graph of temperature variation of topsoil in lunar South Pole by ChaSTE. It measures the temperature profile of the lunar topsoil around the South Pole, to understand the thermal behaviour of the moon’s surface.