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Marina Tabassum- a renowned Bangladeshi architect, researcher and educator has become the first person from the global south and first south Asian to win the prestigious Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Lifetime Achievement Award. Key highlights She was awarded for presenting Read More …
In exercise of the power conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India, the President has appointed Shri Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, Judge of the Supreme Court as the Chief Justice of India. Justice Uday Umesh Read More …
The Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet has cleared the name of N. Kalaiselvi, as the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). In its 80-year history, the CSI gets its first woman Director-General. N. Kalaiselvi Read More …
Indian national Indermit Gill has been appointed as World Bank’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. His appointment was announced by World Bank President David Malpass. Mr Gill will succeed American economist Carmen Reinhart in the role Read More …
Indian-origin Gita Gopinath became the first woman and second Indian to feature on the ‘wall of former chief economists’ of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The first Indian to achieve the honour was Raghuram Rajan who was Chief Economist and Read More …
Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska, chair of Number Theory at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, was named as one of four recipients of the 2022 Fields Medal. Other winners The other winners were French mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin of Read More …
Indian origin T Raja Kumar has taken over as President of Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the world’s anti-terrorism financing agency. He has more than 35 years of leadership and operational experience in Singapore’s home ministry and police force. Raja Read More …
The Mo Bus service of Odisha’s Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) authority has been recognised by the United Nations as one of 10 global recipients of its annual Public Service Awards for 2022. The public transport service has been recognised Read More …
The US President Joe Biden has nominated Arati Prabhakar as the director of Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the President on science and technology. Prabhakar has earlier served as the director of the Defence Advanced Research Read More …
The Prime Minister’s award for outstanding contribution for promotion of Yoga has been announced for the year 2021. List of winners: Bhikkhu Sanghasena from Ladakh, Marcus Vinicius Rojo Rodrigues from Brazil, The Divine Life Society from Uttarakhand and The British Read More …
Use of ICT under a comprehensive initiative called PM eVIDYAby the Department of School education, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic wins UNESCO’s recognition. The PM eVIDYA has been initiated as part of Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaanby the Ministry of Education Read More …
The Government of India has nominated Smt. Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai as Chairperson of Press Council of India. Smt Justice Desai is a retired Judge of Supreme Court of India. About Press Council of India The Press Council of India Read More …
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed senior Indian diplomat Amandeep Singh Gill as his envoy on technology to coordinate programmes for international digital cooperation. Amandeep Singh Gill has been India’s permanent representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from Read More …
Renowned Santoor maestro Pandit Bhajan Sopori passed away on June 2 in Gurugram. He was 74. Shri Sopori was suffering from colon cancer. He was former Director of Music at All India Radio and looked after Hindustani Classical Music. Along Read More …
The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival (2022) took place from 17 to 28 May 2022. Palme d’Or: Triangle of Sadness has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on May 28, the second time Swedish director Ruben Ostlund Read More …