Sister Mariam Thresia, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family, was declared a saint by Pope Francis at a grand ceremony in Vatican City on October 13, 2019. Mariam Thresia is the fourth saint from Kerala, Read More …
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Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer awarded Nobel Prize in economics 2019
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 (Nobel Prize in Economics) to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. The trio has been awarded “for their Read More …
India-Japan Joint Military Exercise DHARMA GUARDIAN – 2019
DHARMA GUARDIAN-2019 -the Joint Military Exercise between India and Japan will be conducted at counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School, Vairengte from 19 Oct 2019 to 02 Nov 2019. Indian Army and Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces (JGSDF) comprising 25 Read More …
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2019 Theme
The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction is being celebrated across world on October 13, 2019. This year also, it continues as part of the “Sendai Seven” campaign, centred on the seven targets of the Sendai Framework. This year will Read More …
Chennai Connect: 2nd India-China Informal Summit
The Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi and the President of the People’s Republic of China Mr Xi Jinping held their Second Informal Summit in Mamallapuram (Chennai), India, on 11-12 October 2019. The Informal Summit was called as ‘Chennai Read More …
Alexei Leonov-first human to walk in space, died
Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space in 1965, died on October 11 at the age of 85 in Russia. Though less well known internationally than Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go space, Leonov was a household Read More …
International Day of the Girl Child 2019 Theme
The International Day of the Girl Child was celebrated on October 11, 2019 with the theme of “GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable”. Since 2012, 11 October has been marked as the International Day of the Girl. The day aims to highlight Read More …
Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace Prize 2019
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, Read More …
Nobel Prize in Literature: Peter Handke for 2019 and Olga Tokarczuk for 2018
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 Read More …
Nobel prize in chemistry 2019 awarded for development of lithium-ion batteries
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 Read More …
Nobel Prize for Physics 2019 awarded for ‘New perspectives on our place in the universe’
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 Read More …
39th World Congress of Poets held in Bhubaneswar
39th World Congress of Poets based on the theme “Compassion through Poetry” was held from the 2nd to 5th of October 2019 at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KIIT & KISS) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Read More …
WTO hosted first World Cotton Day on 7 October 2019
Union Minister of Textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani announced the launch of the second phase of the Cotton Technical Assistance Programme (TAP) for Africa at the Partners Conference in Geneva on October 7, 2019. Cotton Technical Assistance Programme (TAP) In the Read More …
India and Bangladesh signed seven agreements in New Delhi
India and Bangladesh have signed an MoU that will enable Delhi to set up a coastal surveillance system radar in Bangladesh. The coastal surveillance system will pave way for Indo-Bangladesh White Shipping Agreement in future. This will be useful amid Read More …
NITI Aayog and UNDP India Jointly Launch Youth Co:Lab
Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India on October 4, 2019 launched Youth Co:Lab which aims at accelerating social entrepreneurship and innovation in young India. To mark the launch, a Letter of Intent (LOI) Read More …