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Michael Collins – one of the three crew members of the first manned mission to the Moon, Apollo 11 in 1969 – has died aged 90. Collins had stayed in lunar orbit as his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon. Aldrin, 91, is now the only surviving member of the mission. According to the scientists, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin garnered most of Read More …

The 93rd Academy Awards or Oscars 2021 took place on April 25 to honor the best films. Chloé Zhao-the “Nomadland” filmmaker won best director, becoming just the second woman in the 93 years of the Academy Awards to win the award. Here is the list of Oscar winners Best Picture: Nomadland Best Actor in Leading Role: Anthony Hopkins for ‘The Father’ Best Actress in Leading Role: Frances McDormand for ‘Nomadland’ Read More …

Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana on April 24, 2021 took oath as the 48th Chief Justice of India. He succeeds Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde. President Ram Nath Kovind administered him the oath of office at a brief ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Justice Ramana will have a tenure of nearly 16 months as the Chief Justice and is due to retire on August 26, 2022. Born on 27th August 1957 Read More …

The United States Senate on April 21, 2021 voted to confirm civil rights lawyer Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney General. She is the first Indian American to serve as the US Justice Department’s third-highest ranking official. She would also be the first woman of colour and civil rights attorney to serve in this post. Vanita Gupta started her legal career at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. It was Read More …

The Partition Museum located in in the graceful red brick Town Hall in Amritsar has won the ‘Best Wider World Tourism Project’ award at the British Guild of Travel Writers International Tourism (BGTW) Awards 2020, held online on April 18 in the United Kingdom. The museum-the world’s first museum and memorial on the Partition, opened its doors to the public in August 2017. The museum comprises 14 galleries, all housing Read More …

Charles Geschke, Adobe’s co-founder who aided the development of the widely used file format around the world, the Portable Document Format (PDF), died at the age of 81 in California on April 16, 2021. Geschke co-founded Adobe in 1982 along with Dr John Warnock and transformed the company into one of the largest companies. PDF, which is one of the world’s most popular file formats, is used everyday by millions Read More …

The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has expressed profound grief on the passing away of renowned Radiologist, Dr. Kakarla Subba Rao. In a facebook post, he called Dr. Kakarla as an excellent hospital administrator who was known for his integrity, professionalism, hard work and discipline. A Padma Shri recipient, Dr. Kakarla, as he was popularly known, contributed richly to the field of medicine. He is widely credited with the Read More …

Th 37th Siachen Day was celebrated on April 13, 2021 by the Siachen Warriors with tremendous zeal and enthusiasm. On this day in 1984, Indian troops first unfurled the tri colour at Bilafond Lalaunching Operation Meghdoot. Since then, it has been a saga of valour and audacity not only in the face of enemy but also in the face of icy peaks with extreme weather. To this day, the Siachen Read More …

President Ram Nath Kovind on April 12, 2021 appointed Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra as the next Chief Election Commissioner. The incumbent CEC Sunil Arora’s tenure ended on April 12. Mr. Chandra assumed charge from April 13, 2021. A notification to that effect was issued by the Legislative Department on April 12 Mr. Chandra took office as an Election Commissioner on February 15, 2019, after retiring as the chairman of the Read More …

Union Minister of Education Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on April 11, 2021 presented the AICTE Lilavati Awards 2020 on women empowerment to the winners. The objective of the award is to create awareness about issues like sanitation, hygiene, health, nutrition, literacy, employment, technology, credit, marketing, innovation, skill development, natural resources and rights among women. Winners Women Entrepreneurship’ sub theme: SWEAT (Sona Women Entrepreneurship and Training) from Sona College of Technology, Tamil Nadu. Digital Literacy’ Read More …

A two-day convention on ‘Homoeopathy – Roadmap for Integrative Medicine’ was inaugurated on April 10, 2021 at New Delhi. Minister of state for Defence Shri Shripad Yesso Naik was the chief guest on this occasion. The Convention was organized by the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH), an autonomous apex research organization under Ministry of AYUSH to celebrate the occasion of the World Homoeopathy Day. This year the day Read More …

Prince Philip, the longest serving royal consort in British history , died on April 9, 2021 aged 99. The Prince married Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she became Queen, and was the longest-serving royal consort in British history. Philip-the Duke of Edinburgh, spent 65 years supporting the queen, retiring from his public role in 2017 and staying largely out of the view since. In his active years, he Read More …

The President of India, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India, appointed Shri Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana, to be the Chief Justice of India. A notification in this regard has been issued by the Department of Justice, Ministry of Law & Justice on April 6, 2021. Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana, will take over as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Read More …