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Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has constituted a committee to review guidelines on Television Rating agencies in India. Prasar Bharti CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati will be Chairman of the Committee. The Members of the Committe are Dr Shalabh, Professor of Statistics in Department of Mathematics and Statistics in IIT Kanpur, Dr Rajkumar Upadhyay, Executive Director of C-DOT and Proffesor Pulak Ghosh of Decision Sciences Centre for Public Policy. Background According Read More …
Priyanca Radhakrishnan on November 2, 2020 became New Zealand’s first-ever Indian-origin Minister. Priyanca will be Minister for Diversity, Inclusion and Ethnic Communities; Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector; and Associate Minister for Social Development and Employment. Ms. Radhakrishnan, the 41-year-old Labour Party leader, was born in Chennai but her family is from Paravoor in Kerala. She went to school in Singapore before moving to New Zealand to further her Read More …
Union Territory of Puducherry is celebrating its 66th Liberation Day on November 1, 2020 It was on November 1,1954 the union territory was liberated from French colonialism following a referendum in which all elected members from Puducherry voted against the French and preferred to join India. Subsequently, the French affected the de-facto merger on this day in 1954. Later the Indian government affected the de-jure transferring the territory to its Read More …
World’s first scientoon book entitled “Bye Bye Corona”, written by ‘scientoonist’ Dr Pradeep Srivastava was released on October 29, 2020 in Lucknow, by Uttar Pradesh Governor Ms. Anandi Ben. The book is published by Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous agency under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. The 220 pages book contains comprehensive information on novel coronavirus pandemic, its symptoms and its prevention through precautions. ‘Bye Bye Read More …
The National Academy of Medical Sciences (India), has selected Dr Satish Mishra, Principal Scientist, Division of Molecular Parasitology and Immunology, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow for “Dr.Tulsi Das Chugh Award” for the year 2020. Mr. Chugh has been awarded in recognition of his research work on Malaria parasite’s life cycle which is a complex process involving two hosts and three invasive stages. This study focuses on the dispensability of SPATR in P. berghei sporozoites and its importance for the establishment of blood Read More …
The Central Vigilance Commission observes the Vigilance Awareness Week from 27th October to 2nd November, 2020. Why Vigilance Week? This is observed every year during the week in which the birthday of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (31st October) falls. This awareness week campaign affirms CVC’s commitment to promotion of integrity and probity in public life through citizen participation. During the week, all employees are requested to take the Integrity Pledge circulated by the Commission. All Read More …
The Indian Navy has operationalized the first batch of three Women Pilots on Dornier Aircraft by the Southern Naval Command (SNC) at Kochi. The three women pilots were part of the six pilots of the 27th Dornier Operational Flying Training Course DOFT. They graduated as Fully operational Maritime Reconnaissance MR Pilots at a passing out ceremony held at INS Garuda in Kochi on Thursday. The three women pilots of the Read More …
Government think tank NITI Aayog has constituted a panel on October 22, 2020 that will look into introducing reforms in the urban planning education system. The 14-member advisory committee is headed by NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar. NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant and secretaries of three ministries—Housing and Urban Affairs, Higher Education and Panchayati Raj—are among the members of the committee. The committee will review the urban planning education system Read More …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief over the demise of Dr Joseph Mar Thoma, the spiritual head of the Marthoma Christian community who passed away on October 18, 2020. He was 90 years old. He was installed as Mar Thoma metropolitan on October 2, 2007 after the 20th Mar Thoma, Philipose Mar Chrysostom, had expressed his desire to transfer responsibilities of the church to his successor. The Marthoma Syrian church Read More …
India’s first Oscar winner and costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, died on October 15, 2020. She was 91. Ms. Athaiya won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, along with John Mollo, for her work in Richard Attenborough’s 1983 film ‘Gandhi’ The film starred Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma. The biopic about Mahatma Gandhi swept the Oscars with eight awards. The Kolhapur-born Athaiya began her career as a costume designer in Read More …
The President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind on September 24, 2020 virtually conferred the National Service Scheme (NSS) Awards for the year 2018-19 from Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. The National Service Scheme (NSS) Award for the year 2018-19 was given to 42 awardees in 3 different categories like University/ +2 Council, NSS Units and their Programme Officers and NSS Volunteers. Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Department of Youth Read More …
Dr. Govind Swarup, Father of India’s Radio Astronomy, passed away on September 7, 2020 at Pune. He was 91. Dr. Swarup is known not only for his many important research contributions in several areas of astronomy and astrophysics, but also for his outstanding achievements in building ingenious, innovative and powerful observational facilities for front-line research in radio astronomy. The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) was established at Narayangaon near Pune Read More …
Malayalam film 1956, Madhyathiruvithamkoor (Central Travancore) has been chosen for screening at the 42nd edition of the Moscow International Film Festival to be held in October 2020. Directed by Don Palathara, the film, set around themes of migration and human-animal conflict. The film is related to the migrations in Idukki and surrounding regions and set in the 1950s. It is about a group of people who are out for a Read More …
The International Booker Prize for the year 2020 has been awarded to Marieke Lucas Rijneveld for The Discomfort of Evening. The 29-year-old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has become the youngest author ever to win the International Booker prize. Rijneveld won the £50,000 award for the best fiction translated into English, which will be split equally with their translator, Michele Hutchison. A bestseller in the Netherlands, The Discomfort of Evening follows Jas, a Read More …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 28, 2020 paid rich tributes to social reformer Mahatma Ayyankali on his jayanti. In a tweet, Mr Modi said, India remains indebted to greats like Mahatma Ayyankali. Ayyankali was born on August 28 in the year 1863, in Venganoor, Thiruvananthapuram. He was a social reformer who worked for the advancement of deprived people in the princely state of Travancore in British India, the present Read More …