• The first ever Global Fisheries Conference India 2023 kicked off at Science City in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

• The conference is being organized by the Department of Fisheries Government of India on the occasion of World Fisheries Day to bring together all the stakeholders for a sustainable fisheries sector.

• The founder of Sankara Netralaya Dr.S.S Badrinath (83-years) passed away in Chennai due to illness

• He founded the Sankara Nethralaya as a unit of the Medical Research Foundation in 1978.

• He was a recipient of the Padma Shri in 1983 and Padma Bhushan in 1999.

• The opening movie of this year’s IFFI 2023 was British film ‘Catching Dust’.

• Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur inaugurated the 54th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium in Bambolim, Goa.

• This year’s IFFI has received 2926 entries from 105 countries, which is three times more international submissions than last year.

• The Government of India has been appointed Vinay M. Tonse as the Managing Director of State Bank of India until November 30, 2025.

• Tonse, currently serving as the deputy MD, was recommended by the Financial Services Institutions Bureau.

The correct option is Kannada

Other Information:

* A documentary filmmaker working on a film on the indologist famous for working on the first Kannada dictionary, has digitally recreated one of those fonts for Kannada.

* Named as the ‘Kittel font’, it will be released on an open source platform. The font is just one of the fonts used during the 1860-1925 period.

• Uttar Pradesh has won the best state award in the Inland Fisheries category.

• The award will be given during the Global Fisheries Conference 2023, which will be held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on World Fisheries Day (November 21).

• In terms of fish seeds, last year’s production stood at 27,128 lakh MT, which was 36,187 lakh MT this year, he added.

Legendary actress Madhuri Dixit has been honored with the ‘Special Recognition for Contribution to Bharatiya Cinema‘ award at the 54th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Panaji, Goa.

Ghol घोल fish was declared as State fish of Gujarat.

The first ever Global Fisheries Conference India 2023 kicked off at Science City in Ahmedabad.

The correct option is Sanskrit

Other Information:

* Panini code is the 2500-year-old grammatical algorithm in Sanskrit, which has been cracked by an Indian PhD student at the University of Cambridge.

* Rishi Rajpopat solved the algorithm in his thesis, titled ‘In Panini, We Trust: Discovering the Algorithm for Rule Conflict Resolution in the Astadhyayi’.

* Panini was a Sanskrit scholar, philologist and grammarian who lived around the 5th Century BCE in India.