Published on: April 6, 2023
Snippets:5 April 2023
Snippets:5 April 2023
- Ankola’s famous kari Ishadu Mango now boasts of a GI tag from the state.
- Karnataka has ranked as number one in the list of states and Union Territories in granting access to justice and three other southern states figured among the best five, according to the India Justice Report 2022.
- Chhattisgarh’s Nagri Dubraj rice variety gets geographical indication tag.
- The world famous ‘Basohli Painting’ – popular for its miniature art style from Kathua district Jammu has obtained the Geographical Indication (GI) Tag followed approval by the NABARD,.
- Hyderabad-based National Geophysical Research Institute has found large deposits of 15 rare earth elements (REE) in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur
- With 110 gigawatts (GW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) module capacity set to come online in the next three years, India will become self-sufficient and will be the second-largest PV manufacturing country after China, says a new joint report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and JMK Research and Analytics. In terms of upcoming PV manufacturing installations, Gujarat is the leading state in India.
- Continuing the military-to-military engagement, the Air Forces of India and the U.S. are set to conduct the Cope India exercise at the Kalaikunda airbase in West Bengal, with Japan as an observer. The exercise will see intense air manoeuvres aimed at improving interoperability
- NASA named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission. Christina Koch, an engineer, was named as a mission specialist for the Artemis II lunar fly-by. Victor Glover, a U.S. Navy aviator, will be the first Black astronaut to be sent on a lunar mission
- Finland joined the NATO military alliance, dealing a major blow to Russia with a historic realignment of the continent triggered by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
