Published on: June 29, 2023

Snippets:29 JUNE 2023

Snippets:29 JUNE 2023

  • Two geospatial organisations, Allterra and NeoGeo — have collaboratively won the largest-ever drone-based land parcel mapping contract through an open tender process from the Karnataka government.
  • Marching contingents of the three Services and a military band, will take part in the French Bastille Day parade in Paris. Three Rafale fighter jets of Indian Air Force (IAF) will be part of the flypast. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the Chief Guest of the parade.
  • Tamil Nadu wins senior women’s National Football title
  • National Statistics Day is celebrated every year on June 29 in recognition of contributions made by Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in the fields of statistics and economic planning.
  • International Institute for Management Development (IMD) have released Global Competitiveness Index 2023. India ranks 40th in the index
  • European Space Agency (ESA) plans to survey billions of galaxies using the Euclid Space Telescope, which to be launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida
  • The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the PM-PRANAM (PM Programme for Restoration, Awareness, Generation, Nourishment and Amelioration of Mother Earth) scheme, a promise made in the last Budget.
  • According to Karnataka Forest Department and Coimbatore-based Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON), Karnataka has the world’s largest population of lion-tailed macaques.