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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the year-long celebrations of the centenary year of the Malayalam Daily, Mathrubhumi on March 18. Mathrubhumi started functioning on 18th March in 1923. It has been at the forefront of pushing across social reforms and developmental agenda, while constantly highlighting issues of national interest. Mathrubhumi has 15 editions and 11 periodicals. Also, the Mathrubhumi Books division publishes titles on a wide range of issues of Read More …
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former MP from Sangrur Bhagwant Singh Mann was sworn in as the 17th Chief Minister of Punjab on March 16 by Governor Banwarilal Purohit at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia, Cabinet colleague Satyendra Jain and Punjab in-charge for AAP Raghav Chadha also attended the ceremony, all wearing yellow turbans. Yellow, Read More …
The 75th British Academy Film Awards, also known as the BAFTAs, were held on 13 March 2022 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. List of Winners Best Film: The Power of the Dog (Netflix) FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: DRIVE MY CAR DOCUMENTARY: SUMMER OF SOUL ANIMATED FILM: ENCANTO DIRECTOR: THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion) LEADING ACTRESS: JOANNA SCANLAN (After Love) LEADING ACTOR: WILL SMITH (King Read More …
Professor Narayan Pradhan has been selected for the 31st GD Birla Award for Scientific Research for his outstanding contribution in the field of material sciences. Pradhan is a member of the faculty at the School of Material Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur. His research work focused on understanding the chemistry and physics of light-emitting semiconductor nanocrystals. About GD Birla Award The GD Birla Award is presented Read More …
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi on March 11 declared open the 11th Khel Mahakumbh at Ahmedabad. Started in 2010 in Gujarat with 16 sports and 13 lakh participants, Khel Mahakumbh today encompasses 36 general sports and 26 para sports. Over 45 lakh sportspersons have registered for 11th Khel Mahakumbh. Khel Mahakumbh has revolutionized the sports ecosystem in Gujarat. With no age bar, it witnesses participation of people from across Read More …
Katalin Novák has been elected as Hungary’s first female president. She received 137 votes from MPs, ahead of her opposition rival, economist Péter Róna, with 51. Novák, 44, is a loyal supporter of populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and formerly served as Hungary’s youth and family minister. Novak will succeed Janos Ader, a co-founder of Orban’s governing right-wing Fidesz party who has held the job since 2012. She will take Read More …
The Supreme Court of India hosted a special programme to commemorate the first ever ‘International Day of Women Judges’ on 10 March, 2022. The event was organised in furtherance of a United Nations General Assembly resolution which had resolved on 28 April, 2021 to proclaim 10 March of each year as the ‘International Day of Women Judges’. Despite women’s increased engagement in public life, they remain significantly underrepresented in decision-making Read More …
Union Minister of Labour and Employment on March 8 presented Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP), National Safety Awards (NSA) for the performance year 2018 and National Safety Awards (Mines) [NSA (Mines)] for the contest years 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. In case of VRP, for the performance year 2018, total 96 awards were given whereas in case of NSA, total 141 number of (80 winners & 61 runners-up) awards were given. In case Read More …
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind conferred the ‘Nari Shakti Puraskar’ – 2020 and 2021, at a special ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, on occasion of International Women’s Day, on March 8. The award was conferred on 29 outstanding and exceptional women achievers for the years 2020 and 2021. Twenty-eight awards – (14 each for the Year 2020 and 2021)- were presented to 29 women in Read More …
Author Madhu Kankariya is being awarded the 31st Bihari Puraskar for her 2018 novel ‘Hum Yahan The’. Kankariya has written several prose, poems and books. Her novel ‘Hum Yahan The’ is based on the struggles of the tribal people in Jharkhand. It also provides an insight into the culture, society and economic conditions of Kolkata. Among books written by the 64-year-old are Pattakhor, Khule Gagan ke Laal Sitaare, Salaam Aakhri Read More …
Physicist professor Deepak Dhar has become the first Indian to be awarded the Boltzmann Medal. He shares the medal with John J Hoefield of Princeton University. The Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) presents this medal once in three years for contributions in the field of statistical physics. The medal presentation ceremony will be held during the StatPhys28 conference scheduled to be Read More …
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has appointed educationist and research scientist Professor Bhushan Patwardhan as chairman, of the executive committee of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bengaluru. About NAAC NAAC is an autonomous body established by the UGC on September 5, 1994, with Prof Ram Reddy as founding chairman and Prof Arun Nigavekar as its first director. It undertakes assessment and accreditation of higher educational institutions (HEI) such Read More …
Ms Madhabi Puri Buch has been appointed as the new chairperson of market regulator SEBI. She is the first woman chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Ms Puri is the former head of ICICI Securities, also served in SEBI as a Whole Time Member. She replaced Ajay Tyagi as his term ended on February 28. How SEBI Chairman is appointed? Appointments Committee of Cabinet, headed by Read More …
The Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians was awarded to Professor Neena Gupta, a mathematician of the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, in a virtual ceremony on February 22, 2022. She received the award for the year 2021 for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. About Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians The prize is awarded annually to a researcher from a developing country funded by the Department Read More …
On 16th February, 2022 Chamba, an Aspirational District of Himachal Pradesh has become the 100th ‘Har Ghar Jal’ District. Chamba is the fifth aspirational district to become ‘Har Ghar Jal’. Other four Har Ghar Jal Aspirational districts are: Bhadradri Kothgudem, Jayashankar Bhupalpalli, Komram Bheem Asifabad (all in Telangana) and Mewat in Haryana. The ‘Har Ghar Jal’ mission aims to provide clean tap water to every home in the country by Read More …