Published on: February 11, 2023

Snippets:11 FEBRUARY 2023

Snippets:11 FEBRUARY 2023

  • In a Landmark New Haj policy , the cost of Haj pilgrimage reduced by 50,000, 25 embarkation points , Haj application forms available free of cost , earlier was 300 and government discretionary quota cancelled.
  • Google Doodled the PK Rosy on 120th birth anniversary . she is considered to be the first actress in Malayalam cinema who was hounded out of the state and the film industry for portraying a Nair woman on screen in J.C. Daniel’s Vigathakumaran (The Lost Child).
  • The new Mumbai campus of the Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, an Arabic academy, is inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi . This institute also known as Jamea, this is an academic institute exclusively catering to the education of young boys and girls from the Dawoodi Bohra community.
  • Prime Minister flags off Mumbai-Solapur Vande Bharat and Mumbai-Sainagar Shirdi Vande Bharat at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai
  • The Khelo India Winter Games scheduled at Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir.
  • The International Day of Women and Girls in Science celebrated on February 11 is by the United Nations General Assembly to promote the full and equal access and participation of females in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields. Theme for 2023 is IDEAS (Innovate, Demonstrate, Elevate, Advance, Sustain)
  • 11th February has been designated for observation of Unani Day every year. It commemorated the birth anniversary of Hakim Ajmal Khan. The theme of this international conference is ‘Unani Medicine for Public Health’.
  • The Delhi Mumbai Expressway, with a total length of 1386 kilometres, is the longest expressway in India
  • Under India’s G20 Presidency, EMPOWER will host three meetings in at Agra, Thiruvananthapuram and Bhopal respectively. The Ministry of Women and Child Development is India’s nodal ministry for G20 EMPOWER.
  • The first edition of “UPNEXT INDIA” 2023 inaugurated at Apparel House, Gurugram
  • India Post is set to organise a national philatelic exhibition, AMRITPEX, in Delhi .
  • A Novel “Victory City” is written by Salman Rushdie