Published on: March 6, 2023
Snippets:6 MARCH 2023
Snippets:6 MARCH 2023
- The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) launched two rescue vehicles on the occasion of World Wildlife Day. The vehicles will rescue ailing and injured animals in all the 243 wards of BBMP.
- Karnataka to get new 300-acre facility to make iPhones. Foxconn, claimed to be the second largest manufacturer of Apple phones globally, was exploring to set up its factory close to an airport in the State.
- V. Shylendra Kumar, a retired judge of the High Court of Karnataka passed away. He was the first judge of the High Court to open a blog and publish articles on the requirement of transparency in the judiciary besides criticising the Supreme Court’s collegium.
- WHO puts Kerala girl on World Hearing Day poster. Rizwana, a final-year MBBS student who underwent cochlear implantation as a child, proves that early newborn screening and consistent follow-up interventions like speech therapy can save hearing impaired children from being disabled for life
- Education Department to usher in transparency in school registration in Karnataka, share information on website
- Explorer 2, Departing from Sanya’s Institute of Deep Sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE), the vessel has made increasingly frequent forays into some of the least explored parts of the world’s oceans, carrying with it one of the most advanced deep-sea submersibles, as well as China’s ambitions to dominate the still evolving, yet highly competitive, field of deep sea exploration. Only the U.S., France and Russia have similar capabilities. The Striver explored the Mariana Trench
- RoundGlass Punjab wins I-League title.
- Karnataka came up with a dominant performance to prevail over a fighting Meghalaya in the final of the 76th National football championship for Santosh Trophy. This was the first trophy for Karnataka which had previously won four times as Mysore, after a gap of 54 years after 1968-69).
- Olive Ridley turtles have trusted the Gahirmatha and Rushikulya beaches of Odisha for a long time now. Every year, they come ashore from the Bay of Bengal for a mass nesting season, also known as arribada, which in Spanish means arrival from the sea. Its IUCN status is vulnerable . They spend their life in ocean inhabiting in the tropical, subtropical of pacific , Indian and Atlantic sea .
- Jerdon’s narrow-mouthed frog, endemic to the higher altitudes of Western Ghats ‘rediscovered’ after 89 years. It is classified as ‘Near Threatened’ in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
- The South Korean and U.S. militaries announced they will hold their biggest joint field exercises in five years, as the U.S. flew a long-range B-1B bomber to the Korean Peninsula in a show of force against North Korea.
- A court in Belarus sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison for financing protests and other crimes, in a case that rights groups say was politically motivated.
- The laws affecting the Indian working woman’s pay and pension do not provide for equality with Indian men, dragging India’s score in a World Bank index on the life cycle of a working woman down to 74.4 out of a possible 100. A score of 100 on the Index means that women are on an equal standing with men on all the eight indicators being measured, according to the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law 2023 report. India scored higher than the 63.7 average for the South Asian region, though lower than Nepal which had the region’s highest score of 80.6.
