Devendra Jhajharia became the first para-athlete to receive the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian award. Jhajharia has won many Paralympic medals, including his first gold at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens, his second gold at the 2016 Rio Games, and Read More …
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Centenary celebrations of Mathrubhumi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the year-long celebrations of the centenary year of the Malayalam Daily, Mathrubhumi on March 18. Mathrubhumi started functioning on 18th March in 1923. It has been at the forefront of pushing across social reforms and Read More …
Bhagwant Mann sworn in as 17th Punjab CM
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former MP from Sangrur Bhagwant Singh Mann was sworn in as the 17th Chief Minister of Punjab on March 16 by Governor Banwarilal Purohit at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Read More …
75th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA)
The 75th British Academy Film Awards, also known as the BAFTAs, were held on 13 March 2022 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. List of Winners Best Film: The Power of the Dog (Netflix) FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH Read More …
Narayan Pradhan selected for the 31st GD Birla Award for Scientific Research
Professor Narayan Pradhan has been selected for the 31st GD Birla Award for Scientific Research for his outstanding contribution in the field of material sciences. Pradhan is a member of the faculty at the School of Material Sciences, Indian Association Read More …
11th Khel Mahakumbh
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi on March 11 declared open the 11th Khel Mahakumbh at Ahmedabad. Started in 2010 in Gujarat with 16 sports and 13 lakh participants, Khel Mahakumbh today encompasses 36 general sports and 26 para sports. Read More …
Katalin Novak- Hungary’s first female president
Katalin Novák has been elected as Hungary’s first female president. She received 137 votes from MPs, ahead of her opposition rival, economist Péter Róna, with 51. Novák, 44, is a loyal supporter of populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and formerly Read More …
International Day of Women Judges 2022
The Supreme Court of India hosted a special programme to commemorate the first ever ‘International Day of Women Judges’ on 10 March, 2022. The event was organised in furtherance of a United Nations General Assembly resolution which had resolved on Read More …
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar & National Safety Awards
Union Minister of Labour and Employment on March 8 presented Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP), National Safety Awards (NSA) for the performance year 2018 and National Safety Awards (Mines) [NSA (Mines)] for the contest years 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. In Read More …
‘Nari Shakti Puraskar’ – 2020 and 2021
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind conferred the ‘Nari Shakti Puraskar’ – 2020 and 2021, at a special ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, on occasion of International Women’s Day, on March 8. The award was conferred Read More …
Madhu Kankariya awarded 31st Bihari Puraskar
Author Madhu Kankariya is being awarded the 31st Bihari Puraskar for her 2018 novel ‘Hum Yahan The’. Kankariya has written several prose, poems and books. Her novel ‘Hum Yahan The’ is based on the struggles of the tribal people in Read More …
Deepak Dhar became first Indian to be awarded the Boltzmann Medal
Physicist professor Deepak Dhar has become the first Indian to be awarded the Boltzmann Medal. He shares the medal with John J Hoefield of Princeton University. The Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Read More …
Bhushan Patwardhan appointed as chairman of NAAC
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has appointed educationist and research scientist Professor Bhushan Patwardhan as chairman, of the executive committee of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bengaluru. About NAAC NAAC is an autonomous body established by the UGC Read More …
Madhabi Puri Buch appointed as first woman chairperson of SEBI
Ms Madhabi Puri Buch has been appointed as the new chairperson of market regulator SEBI. She is the first woman chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Ms Puri is the former head of ICICI Securities, also Read More …
Professor Neena Gupta receives Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians 2021
The Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians was awarded to Professor Neena Gupta, a mathematician of the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, in a virtual ceremony on February 22, 2022. She received the award for the year 2021 for her outstanding Read More …