Published on: December 29, 2023

Snippets : 29 DECEMBER 2023

Snippets : 29 DECEMBER 2023

  • Migration and Mobility Agreement between India and Italy – enhance people-to-people contacts, foster mobility of students, skilled workers, business people and young professionals and strengthen cooperation on issues related to irregular migration between the two sides
  • Cabinet approves India and Malaysia sign an MoU for Cooperation in Broadcasting between Prasar Bharati and Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM), Malaysia
  • Wang’s Garden Lizard – new reptile species was recently discovered in China
  • Around 1,300 musicians played Vande Mataram on tabla to enter the Guinness World Record for the “largest table ensemble” during the ongoing 99th International Tansen Samaroh in Gwalior
  • Researchers from the University of Szeged, in Hungary, have taken some important strides by studying fruit flies to understand more about Huntington’s disease + It is a rare, inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown (degeneration) of nerve cells in the brain caused by mutation of HTT gene (makes a protein called huntingtin)
  • Justice Sanjiv Khanna appointed as Chairperson of NALSA + statutorily body providing free legal services under LSA act 1987 + Chief justice is patron in chief
  • ZERO-CLICK EXPLOIT – Malicious software that allows spyware to be installed on a device without the device owner’s consent + The specific exploit allegedly in use on the two devices is called BLASTPAST
  • Nina singh becomes first woman to be appointed as DG of CISF
  • Colombo Security Conclave 2023 held + Regional security grouping + Founded by India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Mauritius (Trilateral for Maritime Security Cooperation) launched in 2011