Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70. Key Read More …
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Booker prize winning author Hilary Mantel dies aged 70
India wins UN award for India Hypertension Control Initiative
India has won a UN award for its “India Hypertension Control Initiative, IHCI which is Read More …
64th Ramon Magsaysay Award winners
The Ramon Magsaysay Award is presented in formal ceremonies in Manila, Philippines on August 31st, Read More …
Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2022
Annabelle M Rayson -a student from Canada has received the prestigious 2022 Stockholm Junior Water Prize Read More …
Nagaland gets its second Railway station ‘Shokhuvi’
North-Eastern state Nagaland got its second Railway station on Dhansari-Shokhuvi railway line after a gap Read More …
Samir Kamat is new Chairman of DRDO
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on August 25, 2022 appointed Samir V. Kamat as Read More …
Angela Merkel win 2022 Felix Houphouet-Boigny Unesco Peace Prize
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has been awarded the 2022 Felix Houphouet-Boigny Unesco Peace Prize Read More …
National CSR Awards 2020
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, instituted the annual National Corporate Social Responsibility Read More …
Marina becomes first South Asian to win Lisbon Triennale Lifetime Achievement Award
Marina Tabassum- a renowned Bangladeshi architect, researcher and educator has become the first person from Read More …
Shri Justice Uday Umesh Lalit appointed as 49th Chief Justice of India
In exercise of the power conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution Read More …
Dr N. Kalaiselvi appointed first woman Director General of CSIR
The Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet has cleared the name of N. Kalaiselvi, as Read More …
Indermit Gill appointed Chief Economist of World Bank
Indian national Indermit Gill has been appointed as World Bank’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice Read More …
Gita Gopinath becomes first woman on IMF’s ‘wall of former chief economists’
Indian-origin Gita Gopinath became the first woman and second Indian to feature on the ‘wall Read More …
Maryna Viazovska becomes the second female to win Fields Medal
Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska, chair of Number Theory at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Read More …
T Raja Kumar takes over as President of FATF
Indian origin T Raja Kumar has taken over as President of Financial Action Task Force Read More …
Odisha Mo Bus service named recipient of UN Public Service Award 2022
The Mo Bus service of Odisha’s Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) authority has been recognised Read More …
Biden nominates Indian-American Arati Prabhakar as top science advisor
The US President Joe Biden has nominated Arati Prabhakar as the director of Office of Read More …
Prime Minister’s award for outstanding contribution for promotion of Yoga 2021
The Prime Minister’s award for outstanding contribution for promotion of Yoga has been announced for Read More …
CIET wins UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the for the year 2021
Use of ICT under a comprehensive initiative called PM eVIDYAby the Department of School education, Read More …
Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai nominated as Chairperson, Press Council of India
The Government of India has nominated Smt. Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai as Chairperson of Press Read More …
Amandeep Singh Gill appointed as UN Chief’s envoy on technology
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed senior Indian diplomat Amandeep Singh Gill as his envoy Read More …
Santoor maestro Bhajan Sopori passes away
Renowned Santoor maestro Pandit Bhajan Sopori passed away on June 2 in Gurugram. He was Read More …
Cannes Awards 2022
The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival (2022) took place from 17 to 28 May 2022. Read More …
Project NIGAH
Chief Commissioner, Delhi Customs Zone, Shri Surjit Bhujabal inaugurated project ‘NIGAH’ at ICD Garhi Harsaru, Read More …
Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’ becomes 1st Hindi novel to win International Booker Prize
Geetanjali Shree’s novel ‘Tomb of Sand’, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, has won the Read More …