Category: International

The United Nations’ cultural agency, UNESCO has awarded its annual press freedom ‘Guillermo Cano prize’ to two Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, jailed in Myanmar over their reporting on the killings of Rohingya Muslims in the country. Read More …

United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced to confer the prestigious Zayed Medal on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Zayed Medal is the highest decoration awarded to kings, presidents and heads of states. According to the UAE, the award comes in Read More …

In order to complement the efforts of the India to enhance capacity in the areas of agro-financing and entrepreneurship development for African countries, Ministry of External Affairs signed an MoU on April 2, 2019 with National Bank for Agriculture and Read More …

Three computer scientists who laid the foundations for many of the recent advances in artificial intelligence are being honored with Turing Award 2019, considered the field’s highest accolade. Geoff Hinton, an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto and a Read More …

India has signed an MoU February, 2019 with Argentine on Antarctic cooperation. he Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, was apprised about this MoU on March 27, 2019. The MoU will help scientific cooperation on projects Read More …

Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba commissioned a state of the art “Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Training Facility (NBCTF) – ABHEDYA”, at INS Shivaji, Lonavla on March 25, 2019. GSL had signed the contract with Indian Navy for construction Read More …

According to the UN World Happiness Report- 2019, released on March 20, 2019 on World Happiness Day, India was ranked at 140th place, seven spots down from last year, on . It means Indians are not so happy as there Read More …

Brazilian physicist and astronomer Marcelo Gleiser has been awarded the 2019 Templeton Prize, given by the John Templeton Foundation annually to an individual “who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works.” Read More …

Kazakhstan’s parliament Mazhilis on March 20, 2019 voted to rename the country’s capital Astana as Nursultan in honour of the former president Nursultan Nazarbayev. As per the Kazakh news agency, after a parliamentary vote Astana is now officially renamed Nursultan. Read More …

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded Abel Prize 2019 — an award modeled on the Nobel Prizes — to Karen Uhlenbeck, an emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the first women to receive Read More …

The sixth edition of MITRA SHAKTI, the joint exercise between Indian Army and Gemunu Watch Battalion of Sri Lankan Army, will be conducted from 26 March to 08 April 2019 in Sri Lanka. India will be represented by the troops Read More …

AFINDEX-19, the first Africa-India Field Training Exercise-2019 for India and African nations scheduled from 18 March to 27 March 2019 started with a grand opening ceremony on 18 March 2019 at Aundh Military Station, Pune. Contingents of the 17 African Read More …

The Central Government on March 13, 2019 approved the proposal for accession of India to the three following agreements: The Nice Agreement: Concerning the International classification of Goods and Services for the purposes of registration of marks, The Vienna Agreement: Read More …

According to the latest report published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), India was the world’s second largest arms importer from 2014-18 after Saudi Arabia, which accounted for 12% of the total imports during the period. Between 2014–18 Read More …

The Vice President Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu was conferred an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Peace founded by the United Nations Organisations (UNO) in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose on March 8, 2019. Mr. Naidu was honoured Read More …