Category: International

India has signed the Host Country Agreement (HCA) with the Global Biofuels Alliance (GBA) to officially establish the Alliance’s Secretariat in India. Global Biofuels Alliance

Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who are also known as Hibakusha, won the Nobel Peace Prize 2024.

The 21st ASEAN-India Summit was held in Vientiane, Lao PDR, on 10 October 2024. 44th and 45th ASEAN

The Opening Ceremony of MALABAR 2024 under the aegis of Eastern Naval Command was held onboard Indian Naval Ship Satpura at Visakhapatnam on 09 Oct 24. Key points

On the occasion of World Post Day (9 October), the Department of Posts, Government of India, unveiled a special set of commemorative postage stamps celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU). India Post, with the world’s largest Read More …

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

The 2024 Nobel Prize for chemistry was jointly awarded to David Baker for his work on computational protein design and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for developing technologies to predict the structure of proteins. Key points

The Living Planet Report 2024 has been published by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The report revealed that the average size of monitored wildlife populations has decreased by 73 per cent since 1970. Key points India’s food consumption

The World Health Organization (WHO) has now recognised that India has successfully eliminated trachoma, a bacterial infection that affects the eyes, as a public health problem. Key points Trachoma

The India Pavilion at the Expo City in Dubai will host the first overseas campus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT).

The State of Global Water Resources report was released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on October 7. Key highlights of the report

According to media reports, at least 78 people have drowned and many more are missing after a boat belived to be carrying 278 passengers capsized just a few hundred metres from the shore of Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic Read More …

The World Green Economy Forum was launched on 3rd October in Dubai, bringing together global leaders and experts to address pressing environmental challenges.