Published on: July 30, 2023

Snippets:29 JULY 2023

Snippets:29 JULY 2023

  • Bengaluru has been chosen as the best RRR (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) city in the State in a campaign run by the Directorate Municipal Administration of Urban Development Department. My Life, My Clean City was a national campaign launched by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
  • Karnataka State Road Regulatory and Development Authority led by the Chief Minister will be constituted to identify priority roads that could be taken up for development under the PPP model and prepare detailed project reports
  • Golf equipment manufacturer Callaway Golf India has launched India’s first golf fitting centre at the Karnataka Golf Association (KGA,) Bengaluru.
  • Ethiopia to receive grant and loan from World bank as it was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, a two-year war, droughts, floods and locust invasions
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated the Semicon India 2023 conclave in U.S. chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced plans to invest around $400 million in the country over the next five years and build its largest design centre in the tech hub of Bengaluru.
  • G20 countries launched the Resource Efficiency Circular Economy Industry Coalition (RECEIC)
  • World Hepatitis Day is observed every year on July 28 to raise awareness of viral hepatitis and its impact on global health.
  • Government allows Indian companies to list directly on foreign exchanges through IFSC, gift city Gujarat
  • International Tiger Day is observed globally on July 29 every
  • Scientists of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Niigata University, Japan, have discovered droplets of water trapped in mineral deposits in the Himalayas.
  • Prime Minister inaugurated Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam at Bharat Mandapam in Delhi
  • Asian Development Bank and Indian government to sign $200 million loan for expanding urban services in Rajasthan
  • NITI Aayog organized a G20 Conference on Green and Sustainable Growth Agenda for the Global Economy
  • India for the first time hosting the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships in Greater Noida
  • Scientists of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Niigata University, Japan, have discovered droplets of water trapped in mineral deposits in the Himalayas providing another evidence about Himalayas being formed from Tethys sea
  • Scientists believe that between 700 to 500 million years ago, thick sheets of ice covered the Earth for an extended period, called the Snowball Earth glaciation (one of the major glacial events in Earth’s history)