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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 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 …
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 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 …
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 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 …
Noted architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi on May 10 was conferred the Royal Gold Medal 2022, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President Simon Alford presented the award to BV Doshi at Read More …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on April 24 honoured with the first-ever “Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award” in Mumbai. The award has been instituted in the memory of the Bharat Ratna’s late Lata Mangeshkar who passed away in February 2022. Veteran Read More …
Rajiv Kumar has resigned from the NITI Aayog Vice-Chairperson post. Kumar had taken over in August 2017, replacing Arvind Panagariya who resigned from the post to return to academics. Economist Suman K Bery is the new Vice-Chairperson of the NITI Read More …
Government has appointed Lt Gen Manoj C Pande, presently Vice Chief of the Army Staff, as the next Chief of the Army Staff with effect from the afternoon of April 30, 2022. He is the first officer from the Corps Read More …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the first person to be honoured with Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award. The award will be presented at the 80th annual Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Awards ceremony on April 24. The Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award was instituted Read More …
National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) awarded one gold and one silver award in the 80th SKOCH Summit and SKOCH Awards recently conducted by SKOCH, New Delhi. The theme for the SKOCH Summit was ‘State of BFSI & PSUs’. NMDC won Read More …
Renowned Assamese poet Nilamani Phookan was conferred the country’s highest literary award, Jnanpith in Guwahati on 11th April. The award was presented for the first time in Guwahati. A celebrated poet, Phookan was named for the 56th Jnanpith Award in Read More …
Professor Emeritus Wilfried Brutsaert is named Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2022 for groundbreaking work to quantify environmental evaporation. His innovative approach has helped improve climate modeling and tools that assess how much water that is available. Wilfried Brutsaert is Professor Read More …
The ILO Governing Body has elected Gilbert F. Houngbo as the Organization’s 11th Director-General, who will take office in October 2022. Houngbo, from Togo, is currently President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). He was elected by the Read More …