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 …
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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 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 …
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 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 …
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 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 …
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, 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 …
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 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 …
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 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 …
Santoor maestro Bhajan Sopori passes away
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 …
Cannes Awards 2022
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 …
Project NIGAH
Chief Commissioner, Delhi Customs Zone, Shri Surjit Bhujabal inaugurated project ‘NIGAH’ at ICD Garhi Harsaru, Gurugram on May 26. Project NIGAH is an initiative to track container by using ICTM (ICD Container Tracking Module) which will help in better visibility 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 International Booker prize. ‘Tomb of Sand’ has become the first book written in an Indian language to be awarded the prestigious 2022 International Booker Prize. Read More …
Ashok Dyalchand conferred with Honorary Award at World’s Children’s Prize (WCP)
Pune-based Ashok Dyalchand was conferred with the prestigious Honorary Award at the World’s Children’s Prize (WCP) Child Rights Hero ceremony held in Sweden on May 23. He has been campaigning against child marriages and for girls’ rights in India for Read More …
Captain Abhilasha Barak becomes first woman combat aviator in army
Captain Abhilasha Barak has become the first woman to join the Army Aviation Corps as combat aviator after completion of a six-month combat Army aviation course. Key highlights Captain Abhilasha Barak has been awarded the coveted wings along with 36 Read More …
Wesley Morgan wins 2022 William E. Colby Award
Author and journalist Wesley Morgan has been announced as the winner of the 2022 William E. Colby Award for military and intelligence writing. He was cited for his book The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley. Read More …
Nobel laureate Wilczek wins 2022 Templeton Prize
Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek was conferred with 2022 Templeton Prize. Wilczek is known for his investigations into the laws of nature. He won the 2004 Nobel Prize along with David J. Gross, and H. David Politzer for their Read More …