Published on: March 5, 2024

Snippets : 5 MARCH 2024

Snippets : 5 MARCH 2024

  • The Corporates in Real Estate (CiRE) has launched Green Ride Bengaluru, a campaign to promote sustainable urban mobility
  • The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) launched Chakshu, a platform for telecom users to report fraud or spam callers. The platform will allow users to report frauds related to bank account, payment wallet, SIM, gas connection, electricity connection, KYC update, expiry, deactivation, impersonation as government official or relative, and sextortion
  • The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has launched Digital Intelligence Platform was also launched, which would be a non-public data-sharing resource for “Telecom Service Providers, law enforcement agencies, banks and financial institutions, social media platforms, identity document issuing authorities
  • Union government launches Indian Public Health Standards for AYUSH healthcare facilities + To provide quality-oriented healthcare to people + It says there should be at least 10 AYUSH beds per 50,000 population, 30 beds per 1.5 lakh population, and 50 per 2.5 lakh population
  • Great Backyard Bird Count is an exercise by Cornell University and Audubon Society held in different nations. In India it is coordinated by Bird Count India. AIM – pool the data from birdwatchers to monitor the status of birds. India stood third in terms of the number of species observed (1,037) during the exercise as the country trailed Colombia (1,367) and Ecuador (1,129)
  • ISRO has developed and validated an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM-3) Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) product to enable determining the intricacies of air quality dynamics over the landmass of the Indian subcontinent through SAC AErosol Retrieval (SAER) algorithm using EOS-6 satellite data
  • Global Resource Outlook 2024 was launched on the final day of the Sixth United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA-6) at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya