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The Mo Bus service of Odisha’s Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) authority has been recognised by the United Nations as one of 10 global recipients of its annual Public Service Awards for 2022. The public transport service has been recognised for its role in promoting gender-responsive public services to achieve the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). As per UN, Mo Bus has incorporated real-time technologies like live tracking, travel planner and Read More …
The US President Joe Biden has nominated Arati Prabhakar as the director of Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the President on science and technology. Prabhakar has earlier served as the director of the Defence Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), a key innovative hub of new technologies, and led the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr Prabhakar, 63, is an engineer and applied physicist with extensive Read More …
The Prime Minister’s award for outstanding contribution for promotion of Yoga has been announced for the year 2021. List of winners: Bhikkhu Sanghasena from Ladakh, Marcus Vinicius Rojo Rodrigues from Brazil, The Divine Life Society from Uttarakhand and The British Wheel of Yoga from United Kingdom. The winners will be felicitated with a trophy, certificate and cash award of 25 lakh rupees. The award was announced by the Prime Minister Read More …
Use of ICT under a comprehensive initiative called PM eVIDYAby the Department of School education, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic wins UNESCO’s recognition. The PM eVIDYA has been initiated as part of Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaanby the Ministry of Education on 17th May, 2020, which unifies all efforts related to digital/online/on-air education to enable multi-mode access for imparting education by using technology to minimise learning losses. Central Institute of Educational Read More …
The Government of India has nominated Smt. Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai as Chairperson of Press Council of India. Smt Justice Desai is a retired Judge of Supreme Court of India. About Press Council of India The Press Council of India was first set up in the year 1966 by the Parliament on the recommendations of the First Press Commission with the object of preserving the freedom of the press and Read More …
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed senior Indian diplomat Amandeep Singh Gill as his envoy on technology to coordinate programmes for international digital cooperation. Amandeep Singh Gill has been India’s permanent representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from 2016-to 2018. He is now the chief executive officer of the International Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) project at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Read More …
Renowned Santoor maestro Pandit Bhajan Sopori passed away on June 2 in Gurugram. He was 74. Shri Sopori was suffering from colon cancer. He was former Director of Music at All India Radio and looked after Hindustani Classical Music. Along with Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, he is credited to have brought santoor, a lesser known Kashmiri instrument, into the global limelight. Pandit Bhajan Sopori is regarded as the cultural link Read More …
The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival (2022) took place from 17 to 28 May 2022. Palme d’Or: Triangle of Sadness has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on May 28, the second time Swedish director Ruben Ostlund has won the prize. Triangle of Sadness puts Ostlund among a select group of two-time winners of the top prize at Cannes. He first scooped the Palme in 2017 for Read More …
Chief Commissioner, Delhi Customs Zone, Shri Surjit Bhujabal inaugurated project ‘NIGAH’ at ICD Garhi Harsaru, Gurugram on May 26. Project NIGAH is an initiative to track container by using ICTM (ICD Container Tracking Module) which will help in better visibility of the container movement inside the ICD. It will help Customs to expedite long standing containers and monitor timely clearances, thereby enhancing Ease of Doing Business along with ensuring lead Read More …
Geetanjali Shree’s novel ‘Tomb of Sand’, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, has won the International Booker prize. ‘Tomb of Sand’ has become the first book written in an Indian language to be awarded the prestigious 2022 International Booker Prize. Shree and Rockwell winning the £50,000 prize – which is split between author and translator equally – not only marks the award’s first Hindi winner, but also the first time Read More …
Pune-based Ashok Dyalchand was conferred with the prestigious Honorary Award at the World’s Children’s Prize (WCP) Child Rights Hero ceremony held in Sweden on May 23. He has been campaigning against child marriages and for girls’ rights in India for more than four decades. Dr. Dyalchand is a crusader for the rights of adolescent women through his Aurangabad-based Institute of Health Management Pachod. He, along with Ghana’s James Kofi Annan Read More …
Captain Abhilasha Barak has become the first woman to join the Army Aviation Corps as combat aviator after completion of a six-month combat Army aviation course. Key highlights Captain Abhilasha Barak has been awarded the coveted wings along with 36 Army pilots on May 25 by Lieutenant General A. K. Suri, Director-General and Colonel Commandant, Army Aviation, during a valedictory ceremony at the Combat Army Aviation Training School, Nashik. Capt. Read More …
Author and journalist Wesley Morgan has been announced as the winner of the 2022 William E. Colby Award for military and intelligence writing. He was cited for his book The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley. The Colby award, a $5,000 prize named for the former ambassador and CIA director, is given for a major contribution to the understanding of military history, intelligence operations or international Read More …
Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek was conferred with 2022 Templeton Prize. Wilczek is known for his investigations into the laws of nature. He won the 2004 Nobel Prize along with David J. Gross, and H. David Politzer for their 1973 research explaining the unusual properties of the strong force. Wilczek has continued to pioneer new concepts in physics, naming and developing the theories of anyons, time crystals, and axions, Read More …
Noted architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi on May 10 was conferred the Royal Gold Medal 2022, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President Simon Alford presented the award to BV Doshi at his Ahmedabad residence. About BV Doshi BV Doshi is among the rare people to have been awarded both the Royal Gold Medal and the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Mr. Doshi has Read More …