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All India Council of Human Rights, Liberties & Social Justice (AICHLS) and Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre (MIMC) jointly organizinged the 11th International Peace Conference on September 21, 2021 to observe International Day of Peace, in Leh. International Peace Day was established in 1981 by the UN General Assembly and designated the Day in 2001, as a period to observe 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire. This year’s theme was Recovering Read More …
The Ministry of Education has formed the National Steering Committee for the development of National Curriculum Frameworks on 21-9-2021. K Kasturirangan, former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from 1994 to 2003, will head this committee. Other members of the committee are; Mahesh Chandra Pant, Govind Prasad Sharma, Najma Akhtar, T V Kattimani, Michel Danino, Milind Kamble, Jagbir Singh, Manjul Bhargava, M K Sridhar, Dhir Jhingran and Shankar Maruwada. Read More …
Charanjit Singh Channi was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Punjab on September 20, 2021 at Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh. He became the first Dalit Chief Minister of the state. Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered him oath of office and secrecy. In Punjab, which has the highest percentage of Dalit population among the States — close to 32% — political parties have been making all out efforts to garner their Read More …
Quality Council of India (QCI) on September 16, 2021 launched the Prof. S.K. Joshi Laboratory Excellence Award. This is country’s first-of-its- kind Laboratory Excellence Award. This Award has been instituted to promote Laboratory Quality and performance improvement in the country. The award has been incepted to ensure the laboratory’s commitment to achieve excellence in providing high precision testing and calibration services in line with the prevalent national/international quality systems legislation
Ministry of Defence has constituted a High Level Expert Committee, under the chairmanship of former Member of Parliament Shri Baijayant Panda, for a comprehensive review of National Cadet Corps (NCC) in order to make it more relevant in changed times. The NCC is the largest uniformed organisation which aims at developing character, discipline, a secular outlook and ideals of selfless service amongst young citizens. It also aims to create a pool Read More …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and the chief executive officer of the Serum Institute of India (SII) in Pune Adar Poonawalla were listed in the Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year 2021. PM Modi’s profile said that in its 74 years as an independent nation, India has had three pivotal leaders – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Modi. US President Joe Biden, Read More …
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind conferred the National Florence Nightingale Awards 2020 to 51 awardees at a virtual ceremony on September 15, 2021. Florence Nightingale awards were instituted in the year 1973 by the Government as a mark of recognition for the meritorious services rendered by nurses to the society. Two women from Mizoram also won the award. Mrs. C. Degthangpuii, Health Supervisor (Rtd) and health worker Read More …
”Super 30” initiative founder Mathematician Anand Kumar has been conferred with the Swami Brahmanand Award 2021. He has been awarded for his contribution in the field of education through his initiative. The ”Super 30” initiative guides underprivileged students for the IIT entrance exam. The award carries Rs 10,000 in cash, a bronze medal, a bronze statue of Swami Brahmanand and a certificate. The Swami Brahmanand Award, instituted in the name Read More …
The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) of India won the prestigious UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize 2021. It has won the award for ‘enabling education of persons with disabilities through technology-enabled inclusive learning materials, with a specific focus on Indian Sign language-based content’. The UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize was created in 1989. This Prize rewards the activities of governments or governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) displaying merit Read More …
British author Susanna Clarke has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 for her work “Piranesi‘. Piranesi, a mystery about a man living alone in a labyrinthine house, beat five other books to the £30,000 prize. Women’s Prize for Fiction was previously named after its former sponsors Orange and Bailey’s. Established in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction by women, the prize is open to any woman writing novels in English. JOIN GS TIMES Read More …
The Tamil Nadu Government has released 14 announcements towards the Death Centenary of freedom fighter and poet Subramania Bharathi. Chief Minister M. K. Stalin has said that his memorial day on September 11 will be called Mahakavi Day. The Chief Minister informed that an additional corpus fund of 130 crore rupees was also created thereby doubling the corpus from one lakh to two lakh rupees for each temple under the Read More …
President Ram Nath Kovind on September 9, 2021 has appointed new governors in four states. Lt Gen Gurmit Singh (retd) has been appointed as the Governor of Uttarakhand after Baby Rani Maurya tendered her resignation from the post. Banwarilal Purohit, governor of Tamil Nadu, has been appointed as the governor of Punjab. The Centre’s interlocutor and retired IPS officer RN Ravi has been shifted from Nagaland to Tamil Nadu Read More …
Indian biologist Shailendra Singh has been awarded the Behler Turtle Conservation Award for bringing three critically endangered turtle conservation species back from the brink of extinction. He has been awarded for playing an important role in the conservation turtle species such as the red-crowned roofed turtle (Batagur kachuga), northern river terrapin (Batagur baska), and black softshell turtle (Nilssonia nigricans). The Behler Turtle Conservation award has been bestowed by several global Read More …
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID), a Maharatna CPSU has been awarded the coveted “Association for Talent Development (ATD) 2021 BEST Award” securing 8th rank among the 71 organizations from around the globe. This is the only PSU to win this award and one of the only two companies of India in Top 20. The Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly ASTD) is the world’s largest association dedicated to Read More …
Dorje Angchuk- a Ladakh-based engineer, has become the only Indian Honorary Member of the International Astronomical Union, along with ten others from around the world, joining a select list of 20 international experts. Dorje Angchuk of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics is also the first Indian to bag the position in the prestigious body. This honour is meant to officially recognise those individuals who have significantly contributed to the progress Read More …