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India has been elected to several key bodies at the United Nations, including a significant victory by its nominee Jagjit Pavadia who was re-elected for a third term to the International Narcotics Control Board after garnering the highest number of Read More …

The ISRO Chandrayaan-3 mission team was honoured with the 2024 John L ‘Jack’ Swigert Jr. award for space exploration, by the Space Foundation based in the US.

Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize for his work on probability theory and describing randomness. Key points

Poet Prabha Varma has been selected for the Saraswati Samman for the year 2023 for his work in Malayalam language.

The Maharashtra cabinet on March 13 decided to ask the Ministry of Railways to rename Mumbai Central station after Nana Jagannath Shankarseth. Key points

Author Amitav Ghosh has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Prize 2024 for his passionate contribution to the theme ‘imagining the unthinkable’ for bringing forth the global crisis of climate change through the written word.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a 125-foot bronze statue of Ahom general Lachit Borphukan at his burial site in eastern Assam’s Jorhat district on 9 March 2024.

The Prime Minister presented the first-ever National Creators Award on March 8 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.

Renowned Urdu poet Gulzar and Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya will receive the 58th Jnanpith Award (for 2023) . Gulzar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Jnanpith Award

The Union Ministry of Science and Technology announced the results of the first Vaishvik Bharatiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Fellowship calls and launch of the next cycle of the VAIBHAV call.

The President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu conferred the “Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar” instituted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India to 19 children on 22nd January.

The Prime Minister participated in Parakram Diwas 2024 celebrations at the Red Fort in Delhi on 23rd January 2024.

For the year 2024, 60 Parachute Field Hospital, Uttar Pradesh, in the Institutional category, has been selected for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar-2024 for its excellent work in Disaster Management. Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar

ISRO has ben awarded the 2023 Leif Erikson Lunar Prize by the Exploration Museum in Iceland’s Husavik for its successful Chandrayaan-3 mission. Key points

Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director WHO South-East Asia, has been awarded Bhutan’s prestigious National Order of Merit Gold Medal for her distinguished services to the country. Key points Elimination and Eradication