Published on: September 27, 2023

Snippets:25-26 SEPTEMBER 2023

Snippets:25-26 SEPTEMBER 2023

  • Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Divyansh Singh Panwar won India’s first gold medal of the 19th Asian Games at Shooting event
  • The KSRTC bagged nine awards and BMTC four awards during the 17th global communication conclave and award felicitation function organised by the Public Relations Council of India in New Delhi. The awards include customer friendly company of the year diamond award and best innovative service of the year for KSRTC; corporate brochure diamond award and best use of technology in customer service – gold award for BMTC.
  • Philippines removes barrier in disputed Scarborough shoal, as china has installed 300-metre-long barrier at the entrance to the lagoon
  • Intelligent automation services provider Automation Anywhere has expanded its platform to include a new ‘Responsible AI Layer’ and added features from generative AI (GenAI). The ‘Responsible AI Layer’ includes custom GenAI automation models developed based on Large Language Models, which were trained from anonymised metadata from millions of automations. Major LLM-based GenAI providers include OpenAI, Google’s Palm, Microsoft’s Azure AI and Amazon’s Bedrock.
  • The Indian women’s cricket team beat Sri Lanka women and won the gold medal at the Asian Games 2023.
  • Guyana Amazon Warriors emerged champion of the 2023 edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) against Trinbago Knight Riders at Providence
  • Veteran Malayalam filmmaker K.G. George, 77, passed away
  • World Pharmacist Day is observed on September 25 every year. Theme for 2023 is Pharmacy strengthening health systems.”
  • Every year, World Environmental Health Day is celebrated on September 26.Theme foe 2023Global Environmental Public Health: Standing up to protect everyone’s Health each and every day.
  • Namma BMTC Mobile app launched. The app was launched by BMTC as part of its silver jubilee celebrations. BMTC has received funds from the Government of India under Nirbhaya Scheme for implementing BMTC Mobile App for women safety
  • Rare metal vanadium was found at off coast of Gujarat
  • US envoy to Canada said that the Trudeau administration’s claim of a link between the Indian government in killing of separatist Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was based on “shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners”
  • Department of Fisheries has sanctioned 732 artificial reef units for 10 coastal states
  • Team from Buddhavanam project visits Buddhist rock caves in Sri Lanka. It is a tourism project in Nagarjuna Sagar, Telangana created by the Telangana State Tourism Development Corporation
  • Chief Minister Siddaramaiah inaugurated “Our Monument: Our Heritage, Our Identity, Our Pride” campaign.