Published on: June 28, 2023

Snippets:28 JUNE 2023

Snippets:28 JUNE 2023

  • Bangalore International Airport has launched the BLR Pulse app, which will enable passengers flying through Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) to experience the airport
  • A. Shashidhara Shetty has been elected president of Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association (KASSIA)
  • International golfer Aditi Ashok and Chief Executive Officer of retail brokerage firm Zerodha Nitin Kamat have been selected for the Kempe Gowda international awards
  • ICC launches CWC Trophy Tour ahead of 2023 ODI World Cup in India at the Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad.
  • Drones will be deployed at 100 hotspots in and around Bengaluru to identify the relative share of different sources of pollution in the project launched by National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) along with the Environment Management Policy Research Institute (EMPRI). It probably be the first of its kind project in India when drones will be used to develop the emission inventory.
  • Karnataka will soon get a branch of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). A memorandum of understanding was signed between the NCDC and the State Health and Family Welfare Department.
  • John Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the lithium-ion battery that revolutionised modern life, has passed away
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Wins Kreta Vikreta Gaurav Sammaan Samaaroh 2023 in “Highest Single Bid Procurements in FY22-23” category, organized by Government e-Marketplace of the Ministry of Commerce and India
  • Helen Keller Day is a commemorative day to celebrate the birth of Helen Keller, observed on June 27
  • ‘Report Fish Disease’ App developed by ICAR- National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (ICAR-NBFGR) under National Surveillance Programme for Aquatic Animal Diseases (NSPAAD)
  • Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology explored the nutraceutical properties of aromatic Joha rice
  • Sagar Samajik Sahayyog’, the new guidelines of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways