Published on: June 20, 2023

Snippets:19 JUNE 2023

Snippets:19 JUNE 2023

  • Veteran cinematographer Navroze Contractor passes away
  • Andy Murray claimed a the Nottingham Open
  • India lifts Intercontinental Cup defeating Lebanon
  • Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty scripted history by winning the men’s doubles title at the Indonesia Open, becoming the first pair from the country to claim a Super 1000 badminton event.
  • Abhishek Verma clinched the men’s individual gold medal in the Archery World at Medellin, Colombia.
  • Indian Institute of Science (IISc) researchers have designed a small molecular fluorogenic probe that can sense a specific enzyme linked to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Such a probe can easily be fabricated into a strip-based kit that may enable on-site diagnosis.
  • An attack on a school on the Uganda-Congo border by suspected Islamist militants is yet another cruel reminder of the worsening security situation in Africa
  • World Sickle Cell Awareness Day is observed on June 19th each year to raise awareness about sickle cell disease. This year theme is “Building and strengthening Global Sickle Cell Communities, Formalizing New-born Screening and Knowing your Sickle Cell Disease Status”,