Published on: November 29, 2022

Snippets:29 November 2022

Snippets:29 November 2022

  • Karnataka had recently appointed Justice (retd.) Shivaraj Patil as chairperson of the State’s Border and River Protection Commission.
  • IDFC First Bank has rolled out a sticker-based debit card, called FIRSTAP. The launch is in association with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), to facilitate transactions by simply tapping the sticker on a Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled point-of-sale terminal.
  • Asim Munir was appointed as Pakistan’s new Army chief
  • Rashtrakavi Kuvempu Prathishtana Kuppali has chosen Tamil poet V Annamalai for the Kuvempu National award for the year 2022
  • President nominates Supreme Court Judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul as Executive Chairman of NALSA
  • Chin –Kuki –Mizo ethnic communities are associated with Bangladesh
  • India’s Purnima Devi Barman is selected as one of the UNEP’s ‘Champions of the Earth’ for 2022 from India
  • The restoration of the 100-year-old Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbaihas won the ‘Award of Excellence’ in this year’s UNESCO Asia-Pacifc Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation