Published on: January 23, 2023

Snippets:23 JANUARY 2023

Snippets:23 JANUARY 2023

  • Karnataka fell to 14th rank in 2020 from 6th rank in 2019 in terms of the overall justice delivery system, as per the India Justice Report. State topped the list in policing, its overall ranking got affected by lower ranks in prisons, judiciary and legal aid departments
  • Parakram Divas, is a national event celebrated in India to mark the birthday of the prominent Indian freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose celebrated annually on 23 January.
  • Karnataka is the fastest growing market for home loans in the entire country for State Bank of India (SBI)
  • Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik released Sportstar’s Hockey & India – A Golden Legacy
  • Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sport held its first Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) meeting outside Delhi and on the sidelines of the ongoing Hockey World Cup in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
  • India is hosting the Youth20 (Y20) summit for the first time on the sidelines of the G20 summit, held in Guwahati
  • G20’s First Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group (ECSWG) Meeting to be held at Bengaluru
  • Recent excavations at Bharatpur in Paschim Bardhaman district of West Bengal have revealed the presence of a Buddhist monastery
  • China is constructing a dam on the Mabja Zangbo river in Tibet, close to the tri-junction of India –Nepal and China
  • The Centre has decided to nominate Assam’s Charaideo Maidams ,the Ahom equivalent of the ancient Egyptian pyramids for the UNESCO World Heritage Site status this year.