Published on: September 15, 2023
Snippets:11 SEPTEMBER 2023
Snippets:11 SEPTEMBER 2023
- NIMHANS initiates Suicide Loss Survivors forum, for those who lost their lives to suicide and to decrease stigma and provide postvention care and support to the families
- Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited (KREDL) proposes setting up 500 MW solar park at Aurad in Bidar district. The proposed 500 MW capacity park will be set up along with the Pavagada Solar Park (in Tumakuru district) model. The project is expected to be commissioned by December 2025.
- Bengaluru city police switch to Kannada commands for march past events from Hindi and English . It was done after recommendation of a committee was formed headed by a senior IPS officer, S. Parashivamurthy, to study the Belagavi experiment.
- Cartoonist Ajit Ninan passed away in Mysuru. He was best known for the ‘Centrestage’ series in India Today magazine and ‘Ninan’s World’ in Times of India. One of his popular cartoon characters was ‘Detective Moochhwala’ in Target. Indian Institute of Cartoonists felicitated Mr. Ninan with the Barton Life-time achievement award at Indian Cartoon Gallery in 2022.
- Project Madhunetri’ was inaugurated in Bengaluru
- Himachal Pradesh government taking steps to legalise cannabis (hemp) cultivation in the State and recommended cultivation of cannabis for “non-narcotic use of cannabis for medicinal, industrial, and scientific use
- Black comedy ‘Poor Things’ wins Golden Lion at Venice directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and stared by Emma Stone
- Coco Gauff clinched her first US Grand Slam title with a battling win over Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.
- India’s U-16 team won the SAFF U-16 Championship 2023, defeating Bangladesh at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, Bhutan.
- FIBA Basketball World Cup for the first time won by Germany against Serbia
- The early Pandya-era rock-cut cave temple at Paraikulam in Virudhunagar district has been declared a protected monument of Kerala
- Malappuram Municipality of Kerala opens its first ‘Badai Bazaar’, a free-of-cost centre for the elderly. Each centre will be managed by a committee of members, medical check-ups and excursions to be introduced shortly
- India proposed to launch a G-20 Satellite Mission for Environment and Climate Observation, with an aim to help the countries of the Global South.
- PM Narendra Modi and the President of USA,. Joe Biden co-chaired a Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) and India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), held on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in New Delhi.
- The Phanigiri artefacts, belonging to 200 BCE-400 CE was discovered in 1942, are on display at New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
- RBI to discontinue Incremental Cash Reserve Ratio in a phased manner
- India launched the Global Biofuels Alliance on the G-20 Summit
