Published on: June 9, 2023
Snippets:7-8 JUNE 2023
Snippets:7-8 JUNE 2023
- Former Doordarshan news anchor Gitanjali Aiyar passed away
- Mazagon Dock and German firm strike deal on submarines. They will now jointly bid for the Navy’s Project-75I to build six advanced submarines in India
- Germany is preparing to host the biggest air deployment exercise in NATO’s history, a show of force intended to impress allies and potential adversaries
- Junior international Laxita Vinod Sandila won the women’s 1500m gold at the 20th Asian under-20 athletics championships at Yecheon
- Iran claimed that it had created a hypersonic missile capable of travelling at 15 times the speed of sound, adding a new weapon to its arsenal as tensions remain high with the United States over its nuclear programme. The new missile — called ‘Fattah,’ or ‘Conqueror’ in Farsi
- The Ministry of Power and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy have jointly launched a National Mission to quickly identify emerging technologies in the power sector and develop them indigenously, at scale, for deployment within and outside India.
- NCPCR launches National Campaign “Addiction Free Amrit Kaal”, aimed at making India a tobacco and drug-free nation among children
- Meta and Ministry of Women and Child Development launch the Amrit Generation Campaign: Naye Bharat Ke Sapne
- India currently ranks as the World’s 2nd Largest Producer of Crude Steel, surpassing Japan in 2018.
- World Oceans Day is celebrated every year on 8 June to create awareness among people regarding the significance of oceans, and the importance of preserving and conserving oceanic resources by Canada’s International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD) and the Ocean Institute of Canada (OIC). This year, the theme of World Oceans day 2023 is “Planet Ocean: The Tides are Changing.”
- World Food Safety Day is observed annually on June 7th.This year theme of Food Safety Day was ‘Food standards save lives’
- Kerala government officially launched the Kerala Fibre Optical Network (KFON). It is an optical fibre cable network . Through KFON, Kerala, which was the first state to declare the right to internet as a basic right, aims to reduce the digital divide by ensuring high speed broadband internet access to all houses and government offices
- China and Russia conducted joint air force patrols over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea , as South Korea said it had deployed fighter jets in response to warplanes near its airspace.
