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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on April 24 honoured with the first-ever “Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award” in Mumbai. The award has been instituted in the memory of the Bharat Ratna’s late Lata Mangeshkar who passed away in February 2022. Veteran singers Asha Bhosale, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar-Khadikar and Adinath Mangeshkar presented the award to PM Modi for his selfless service to the nation and society. Besides, veteran actress Asha Read More …
Rajiv Kumar has resigned from the NITI Aayog Vice-Chairperson post. Kumar had taken over in August 2017, replacing Arvind Panagariya who resigned from the post to return to academics. Economist Suman K Bery is the new Vice-Chairperson of the NITI Aayog. Bery is a former Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), a position he held for a decade from 2001 to 2011. A non-resident fellow Read More …
Government has appointed Lt Gen Manoj C Pande, presently Vice Chief of the Army Staff, as the next Chief of the Army Staff with effect from the afternoon of April 30, 2022. He is the first officer from the Corps of Engineers and also the first from combat support arms — the combat arms being infantry, artillery and armoured — to head the 1.3-million Indian Army. In the rank of Read More …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the first person to be honoured with Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award. The award will be presented at the 80th annual Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Awards ceremony on April 24. The Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award was instituted in the memory and honour of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar who passed away at the age of 92 years in February 2022. The Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award award will be Read More …
National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) awarded one gold and one silver award in the 80th SKOCH Summit and SKOCH Awards recently conducted by SKOCH, New Delhi. The theme for the SKOCH Summit was ‘State of BFSI & PSUs’. NMDC won the Gold Award in the category social responsibility for the project ‘Promotion of Technical Education & Skill Development in Dantewada District through NMDC ITI Bhansi’ and the Silver Award in Read More …
Renowned Assamese poet Nilamani Phookan was conferred the country’s highest literary award, Jnanpith in Guwahati on 11th April. The award was presented for the first time in Guwahati. A celebrated poet, Phookan was named for the 56th Jnanpith Award in December 2021. The notable works of Mr Phukan are ‘Xurjya Henu Naami Aahe Ei Nodiyedi’, ‘Kabita’, and ‘Gulapi Jamur Lagna’. Eighty-eight-year-old Phookan is the third person to win the Jnanpith Read More …
Professor Emeritus Wilfried Brutsaert is named Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2022 for groundbreaking work to quantify environmental evaporation. His innovative approach has helped improve climate modeling and tools that assess how much water that is available. Wilfried Brutsaert is Professor in Engineering Emeritus at Cornell University, USA. To many hydrologists, he is however known as Mr Evaporation since he is one of the most outstanding experts on the topic. About Read More …
The ILO Governing Body has elected Gilbert F. Houngbo as the Organization’s 11th Director-General, who will take office in October 2022. Houngbo, from Togo, is currently President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). He was elected by the ILO’s Governing Body, comprising representatives of governments, workers and employers, during their meeting in Geneva. He will be the 11th Director-General of the ILO, and the first African to hold Read More …
The 94th Academy Awards (Oscars) were organised at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on March 27, 2022 which were overshadowed by Will Smith slapping event. He slapped Chris Rock in the face for joking his wife. List of winners Best picture: CODA Best actress: Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye Best actor: Will Smith – King Richard Best director: The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion Best original Read More …
BJP’s S. Phangnon Konyak was elected unopposed as the Rajya Sabha member from Nagaland. She became the first woman from the Nagaland to get a berth in Parliament’s Upper House. To be sure, Nagaland is yet to elect a woman MLA even after 58 years of statehood. Konyak is the state unit’s BJP mahila morcha president. Konyak, who is the state BJP women’s wing chief, has become the second woman Read More …
Yogi Adityanath took oath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on March 25. Yogi Adityanath has become the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh to return to power after completing a full tenure of five years. He was sworn in along with 52 Ministers, including Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brijesh Pathak as Deputy CMs at the Atal Behari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. Danish Azad Ansari is Read More …
Each year, on 24 March, the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims is observed. This annual observance pays tribute to the memory of Monsignor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, who was murdered on 24 March 1980. Monsignor Romero was actively engaged in denouncing violations of the human rights of the most vulnerable individuals in El Salvador. On 21 December Read More …
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the Abel prize for the year 2022 to American Mathematician Dennis Parnell Sullivan. The award has been given, for his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects. Mr. Sullivan is with the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York and the State University of New York Read More …
Jayati Ghosh has been appointed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to a new high-level advisory board on effective multilateralism. Ghosh, 66, is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a member of the UN’s high-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs. She is a former professor of economics and chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, JNU. Advisory Read More …
Devendra Jhajharia became the first para-athlete to receive the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian award. Jhajharia has won many Paralympic medals, including his first gold at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens, his second gold at the 2016 Rio Games, and a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Avani Lekhara, a para-shooter, was also awarded the Padma Shri award in the Sports category. Lekhara is the first Indian woman to Read More …