Published on: July 19, 2023
Snippets:17 JULY 2023
Snippets:17 JULY 2023
- Members of the Kodava community, in the hill district of Kodagu, are demanding exclusive, intangible constituencies in Parliament and in the Karnataka Assembly on the lines of the Sangha virtual constituency for the Buddhist monastic community in Sikkim.
- Karnataka Speaker T. Khader was presented with the ‘Great Son of India’ award at the Indian Conference of Intellectuals in New Delhi
- Preeti Aghalyam, first woman to become the Director of an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
- Safran Helicopter Engines and the HAL have decided to set up their new joint venture in Bengaluru, which will be dedicated to the “design, development, production, sales and support of helicopter engines” with the focus first on the Indian multi-role helicopter
- PSLV-C56 to lift off with seven satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre
- Indian and Mongolian troops will take part in the 15th edition of a bilateral military exercise in Ulaanbaatar called “Nomadic Elephant-23”.
- A UN-owned ship arrived off war-torn Yemen for a risky operation to pump more than a million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker and prevent a catastrophic spill.
- Carlos Alcaraz defeated seven-time champion Novak Djokovic to claim his first Wimbledon title
- South Zone ran through West Zone on the final day to emerge as the Duleep Trophy champion at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
- India and UAE set to use rupee, dirham for trade. The first agreement between the RBI and the UAE Central Bank will establish a framework to promote the use of local currencies (rupee and dirham) for cross-border transactions
