Published on: February 22, 2024
Snippets:21-22 FEBRUARY 2024
Snippets:21-22 FEBRUARY 2024
- The Legislative Assembly adopted the Karnataka Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Bill, 2024, which provides for availing of additional floor area ratio (FAR) by paying a rate not less than 40% of the guidance value
- Tamil Nadu government banned the sale and production of cotton candy in the state after it was found that the chemical Rhodamine-B was being used for making it. Rhodamine-B is known to cause cancer
- Guidance value will now form the basis for calculating property tax in Bengaluru. The present system of assessment, which classifies properties under different zones (A-E), will be scrapped. The term “Guidance Value” refers to the government’s assessment or guidance on the minimum value at which a property should be registered during a property transaction
- VOiLA3D, a deep tech company working with large-scale robotic 3D printing technology, has collaborated with an IISc research team on the process that also promises to offset challenges involved in 3D printing with recycled plastic
- Karnataka State Cricket As- sociation’s Jacintha Kalyan has become India’s first woman curator and is all set to handle the show at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru for the city’s fixtures in the Women’s Premier League. A pitch curator is an individual responsible for preparing and maintaining the playing surface (pitch) in sports like cricket
- Ameen Sayani, the iconic radio presenter of the popular show “Binaca Geet Mala”, passed away
- The Centre on Wednesday announced the strengthening of the women’s safety helpline 112 by scaling it up, setting up six cyber forensic science laboratories, and establishing a National Forensic Data Centre, among other measures as part of an umbrella scheme called Safety of Women
- Mysore Paints and varnish ltd to provide over 26 lakh vials of indelible ink for Lok Sabha polls. The ink was developed by the Council of Industrial Research-National Physical Laboratory based in Delhi. Ink was first used in 1962 elections . The limited was established in 1937 by Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV
- Commemorating 200 years of Rani Chennamma’s rebellion against the British East India Company, several social groups across the country, including Act Now for Harmony and Democracy (ANHAD) and the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW), organized a national campaign, Naanoo Rani Chennamma (I am Rani Chennamma too)
- The Union Cabinet on Wednesday further liberalised the space sector by amending the Foreign Direct Investment norms, permitting an increased flow of foreign capital in areas related to the development and launch of satellites, and creating the ground infrastructure for the same
- A UN convention on the conservation of migratory species of wild animals (CMS) at Samarkaand adopted India’s initiative for the Central Asian Flyway (CAF) and agreed to list 14 additional migratory species from across the globe for conservation in the CMS appendices
- Buddha/ Kapilvastu Relics, bone fragments of Lord Buddha to be taken to Bangkok, Thailand from India. These are 4 bone fragments discovered by KM Srivastava in Uttar Pradesh’s Piprahwa
- The four-day Sammakka Saralamma Jatara which is said to be the world’s largest congregation of tribals kick-started at Medaram in Mulugu district,Telangana
- Recently, India has contributed USD 1 million to a fund established by India, Brazil and South Africa + Trilateral development initiative established by the governments of India, Brazil, and South Africa in 2004(operational since 2006) + Aim of the fund is to promote South-South cooperation and assist other developing countries in their development efforts
