Published on: March 9, 2022
SNIPPETS – 9 MARCH 2022
SNIPPETS – 9 MARCH 2022
- The virtual International Election Visitors Programme (IEVP) 2022 was hosted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) for Election Management Bodies (EMBs) from nearly 32 countries and four international organisations to visit polling stations and observe electoral processes. It is hosted since 2012
- Sri Lanka is mourning the death a much-loved Indian elephant that made the island nation its home for nearly half a century, and was named a “national treasure”
- Acetabularia jalakanyakae is the new marine algae species discovered in Andaman island, which is similar to another green algal species called Acetabularia crenulata found in Florida
- NOTE – Climateprenurship is a form of social entrepreneurship to fight climate change
- An e-Book regarding the journey of the National Career Service (NCS) was recently launched. NCS is a Mission Mode Project launched by Prime Minister Modi in 2015. It is being implemented by the Directorate General of Employment, Ministry of Labor & Employment
- The National Museum, New Delhi celebrated International Women’s Day 2022 by organising a special Exhibition titled “Power, Patronage, and Piety – Celebrating Womanhood”
- Culture Ministry celebrates International Women’s Day 2022 with the theme #BreakTheBias and #SharingIsCaring
- Union ministry of women and children launched Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav campaign. It aims to Increase the enrolment and retention of the number of adolescent girls (girls aged 11 to 14) in school
- Camel Protection and Development Policy was announced by state government of Rajasthan in its budget 2022-23. Camel was declared as the state animal of Rajasthan in 2014
- The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has now deployed “PARAM Ganga”, a supercomputer at IIT Roorkee, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops
- Argentina federal police will now effectively use technique of Yoga for stress management of its personnel.
- New data from Chandra’s Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2) mass spectrometer on Chandrayaan-2 show the distribution of Argon-40 gas in the lunar ‘exosphere’, beyond the areas this was known to exist
- On March 7, the Gujarat government marked 100 years of the Pal-Dadhvav killings
- EU Member States on March 3 made the unprecedented decision to activate the European Union’s Council Directive known as the Temporary Protection Directive
- The Philippines raised its age of sexual consent from 12 years to 16 years, with amendment to the Special Protection of Children against Abuse, Exploitation, and Discrimination Act
