CURRENT AFFAIRS DESTINATION FOR UPSC & STATE CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATIONS
In a first, the Government of India has constituted a special award titled ‘Icon of Golden Jubilee of IFFI’ which will be conferred upon the eminent film personality Shri S Rajinikanth. This was announced by Union Information & Broadcasting minister, Shri Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi . “In recognition of his outstanding contribution to Indian cinema, during the past several decades, I am happy to announce that the award for the ‘Icon of Read More …
Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers Girish Chandra Murmu has been appointed as Lt. Governor of Jammu-Kashmir. Murmu, a 1985-batch Gujarat cadre officer, is serving as the Expenditure Secretary in the Union Finance Ministry . R K Mathur has been appointed as Lt. Governor of Ladakh. He is a 1977-batch officer and has served as the Defence Secretary and is a former Chief Information Commissioner (CIC). Mr P.S. Sreedharan Pillai has Read More …
Golden Gateway prize in the India Gold: Prateek Vats’ Eeb Allay Ooo! won the Golden Gateway prize in the India Gold at the 21st Jio MAMI Film Festival. It is a section for contemporary Indian films. The film was described by the jury as “a comedy with deep emotions, and a film that often reminds us of our primal instincts”. The film also won the Young Critics’ Choice Award, and Read More …
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on October 20, 2019 unveiled the book “Bridgital Nation” and presented its first copy to Shri Ratan Tata in an event organized at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, New Delhi today. The book has been written by Shri N Chandrasekaran and Ms. Roopa Purushottam. The book presents a powerful vision of the future where technology and human beings co-exist in a mutually beneficial ecosystem. It argues Read More …
The Vice President of India, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu on October 20, 2019 presented ‘Most Eminent Senior Citizen Award’ to legal luminary, scholar and former Attorney General of India, Shri K. Parasaran at a function at the India International Centre in New Delhi. Shri Parasaran was honored with the Award on the occasion of the Elder’s Day celebration of Age Care India, an organization working for the welfare of the Read More …
Two women authors Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have been named the joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize. Canadian writer Atwood’s was awarded for her follow up novel ‘The Testaments’. It is the follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, and was recognised alongside Londoner Evaristo’s novel Girl, Woman, Other. Both the authors will split the literary award’s £50,000 prize money equally. While the prize has been jointly awarded twice previously, Read More …
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan on October 11, 2019 gave away the Kayakalp awards to the winners under various categories. Under the Central Government Hospitals A category, the first prize of Rs. 3 crore was given to the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi. JIPMER, Puducherry was judged as the runner-up in this category with Rs. 1.5 crore prize money, and Postgraduate Institute Read More …
The Nobel Peace Prize 2019 was awarded to Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali. Announcing his name, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen said that Mr. Abiy is awarded “for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.” Nobel Peace Prize winner will receive some nine million Swedish crowns (about £730,000; $900,000). His Read More …
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Austrian author Peter Handke, while the 2018 award, postponed from last year, was given to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. Peter Handke (2019) According to the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience. Read More …
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries . According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , ”the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 rewards the development of the lithium-ion battery. This lightweight, rechargeable and powerful battery is now used in everything from mobile phones to laptops and electric vehicles. It can also Read More …
Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics announced on October 8, 2019 for shedding light on the evolution of the universe and discovering planets orbiting distant suns. According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded ”for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”, Read More …
The 1996-batch Indian Forest Service officer Ramesh Pandey has been selected for the Asia Environmental Enforcement Award by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Posted as Chief Conservator Forests in Lucknow and Secretary, UP State Bio-diversity Board, is known for his investigation and intelligence gathering on poachers. Pandey will receive the award on November 13 at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok. The objective of the Asia Environmental Read More …
Three scientists William Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza have been jointly awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for ” Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering research into how human cells respond to changing oxygen levels.” Announcing the prize at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on October 7, 2019, the Nobel committee said that the trio’s discoveries have paved the way for “promising new strategies to fight anaemia, cancer Read More …
The President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind on October 3, 2019 presented the “Vayoshreshtha Samman-2019” to the eminent senior citizens and institutions in recognition of their services towards the cause of the elderly persons to mark ‘International Day of older Persons’ at a function organized by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment . About ‘Vayoshreshtha Samman’ The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment felicitates senior citizens and older persons Read More …
Famous film and theatre actor Viju Khote passed away at the age of 77 in Mumbai on September 30, 2019. The actor had appeared in over 300 Hindi and Marathi films and numerous television shows and plays but still is popular for playing the role of Kalia in Sholay, Mr. Khote made his big screen debut with the 1964 film Ya Malak and went on to do some of the most Read More …