Published on: August 8, 2023
Snippets:7 AUGUST 2023
Snippets:7 AUGUST 2023
- National Security Adviser Ajit Doval joined counterparts from other nations at a peace conference on the Ukraine conflict hosted by Saudi Prime Minister and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
- The President of India had formed the Commission headed by former Delhi High Court Chief Justice G. Rohini to examine the question of sub-categorising the over 2,600 caste groups listed in the Central OBC list.
- The newly discovered Perucetus colossus, an ancient species of whale, is thought to be one of the largest and heaviest animals on record at Southern Peru
- Long jumper Jeswin Aldrin won gold at the Citius athletics meeting World Athletics Continental Tour-Bronze event in Bern, Switzerland
- Aditi Swami and Ojas Deotale won the first ever women’s and men’s individual titles for the India in Berlin. Aditi swami became the first Indian and the youngest ever to win an individual World crown.
- The 130-year-old Kuttikkanam Palace, once the summer residence of the kings of erstwhile Travancore, is set to be declared a historical monument.
- Revolutionary balladeer and folk singer Gaddar passed away
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Amrit Bharata station scheme across 508 railway stations in the country, out of which 13 stations are listed in Karnataka.
- The Government of India designated August 7, as the National Handloom Day
- A recent publication by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) points out that about 5% of the birds found in the country are endemic and not reported in other parts of the world.
- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will host Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation to seek a roadmap to save the world’s biggest rainforest.
