Published on: February 25, 2023

Snippets:25 FEBRUARY 2023

Snippets:25 FEBRUARY 2023

  • Bihar and Kerala are the only States that allow menstrual pain leave in India
  • The KSRTC has chosen its electric bus name as ‘EV-Power Plus’ with a tagline ‘e-Xperience e-levated’. Similarly, the corporation recently launched Ambaari Ustav, Volvo 9600 multi-axle sleeper buses, a new brand with the tagline ‘Celebration of Journey’.
  • NIMHANS signs MoU to implement Tele-MANAS, with Mpower, a mental health initiative of the Aditya Birla Education Trust.
  • Former Supreme Court Judge Syed Abdul Nazeer sworn in as Governor of Andhra Pradesh, replacing Biswa Bhusan Harichandan.
  • In line with the expanding military cooperation with South East Asian nations, an Indian Navy Kilo class conventional submarine, INS Sindhukesari, docked in Jakarta, Indonesia, for the first time
  • West Bengal reported the highest number of species of birds, followed by Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh during the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) 2023
  • The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has suspended Russia’s membership over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
  • Facebook and Instagram began a rollout of their first paid verification service, testing users’ willingness to pay.
  • Reliance Retail has announced the opening of the first freestanding Gap store in India at Mumbai’s Infiniti Mall.
  • Iniyan has won the Noisiel International Open chess tournament at Noisiel, France.
  • According to Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), highest number of bird species in South India were sighted in Karnataka.
  • The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodara to host Youth 20 India Summit for environment conservation
  • IRCTC will be operating Baba Saheb Ambedkar Yatra tour package under “Dekho Apna Desh” initiative, covering some of the prominent sites associated with the life of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar. The First journey of the Baba Saheb Ambedkar Yatra will be from New Delhi
  • Medicinal plant commonly called Borthekera in Assamese found to have cardioprotective potential
  • ‘Kol Janjati Mahakumbh’ organized on the occasion of Shabri Mata Janm Jayanti at Satna, Madhya Pradesh
  • In a move to harness export potential of millets to the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCCs), the APEDA that works under the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, has signed a MoU with Lulu Hypermarket for export promotion of millets
  • A neutral citation would mean that the court would assign its own citation(identification tag for a judgment) distinct from those given by traditional Law Reporters. Law Reporters are periodicals or annual digests that publish judgments, often with an editorial note to make it accessible for lawyers to refer to precedents. Supreme Court will adopt a “neutral citation system” for its judgments.