PM Modi releases 8 cheetahs at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
- After a long gap of 70 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a historic gift to Madhya Pradesh and the country today.
- The Prime Minister has released eight cheetahs brought from Namibia in the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
- It is the world's first inter-continental large wild carnivore translation project.
- It is the world's first transcontinental project to restore large wild animals.
- The introduction of wild cheetahs from Namibia is part of PM Modi's efforts to revive and diversify India's wildlife and its habitat.
- Cheetahs were declared extinct from India in 1952 and those that have been introduced are from Namibia and have been brought under a memorandum of understanding signed earlier this year.
- The last cheetah died in 1948 in the Sal forests of Koriya district of Chhattisgarh.
UNICEF appoints climate activist Vanessa Nakate as Goodwill Ambassador.
- 25-year-old Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has been appointed as the newest UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
- Inspired by Sweden's Greta Thunberg, Nakate began her climate action in 2019 and has since founded the Rise Up Movement and addressed global climate summits.
- In 2020 she came to further global prominence when she was cropped out of a news photo she appeared in alongside Thunberg and other white climate activists.
- She has addressed world leaders at the COP25 and COP26 climate summits and appeared on the cover of TIME magazine.
Bengaluru teen Pranav Anand becomes India's 76th Chess Grandmaster.
- Bengaluru teenager Pranav Anand became India’s 76th Grandmaster after he crossed the 2,500 Elo mark in the ongoing World Youth Chess Championship in Mamaia, Romania.
- To become a GM, a player has to secure three GM norms and cross the live rating of 2,500 Elo points.
- Anand had scored the third and final GM norm at the 55th Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland in July.
- Anand had secured his third and final GM norm in Biel by drawing his game against Spain number five GM Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli (2619) in the penultimate round.
- His first two GM norms came in the Sitges Open (in January 2022) and Vezerkepso GM Round Robin (March 2022) tournaments.
J&K govt declares Maharaja Hari Singh’s birthday a public holiday.
- The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to declare Maharaja Hari Singh’s birth anniversary a public holiday.
- The announcement was made by Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha.
- Maharaja Hari Singh JI was instrumental in accession of J&K with the republic of India on 26 October in 1947.
- Maharaja Hari Singh was the last Dogra king.
- The birth anniversary of the visionary ruler falls on September 23.
Jharkhand becomes the 3rd state to have Food Security Atlas.
- Jharkhand has become the third state after Bihar and Odisha in eastern India to have Food Security Atlas for its rural areas.
- Odisha and Bihar had their Atlas launched in 2018.
- Food Security Atlas of Rural Jharkhand 2022’ launched in Ranchi.
- Finance Minister of Jharkhand, Dr Rameshwar Oraon assured that the government would make efforts towards giving quota and green cards to the food insecure districts of Jharkhand.
- This Atlas is an effort toward mapping the food security situation in the state.
- It has been prepared by the Delhi-based Institute for Human Development (IHD) as part of the research initiative of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai.
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