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Renowned Bharatanatyam exponent Priyadarshini Govind was presented the Nritya Kalanidhi award at the 14th Dance Festival in Chennai. The festival was inaugurated by Mark Van de Vreken, Consul General, Consulate General of the Kingdom of Belgium, Chennai at the Music Read More …
The world Braille Day is being celebrated on January 4, 2020. World Braille Day, celebrated since 2019, is observed to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights Read More …
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi distributed Agriculture Minister’s Krishi Karman Awards for Progressive Farmers and Commendation Awards to the states at a public meeting in Tumkur, Karnataka on January 2, 2020. He also released the 3rd installment of PM Kisan Read More …
NASA astronaut Christina Koch has set a new record on December 28, 2019 for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission. Koch has surpassed the Read More …
President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind on December 29, 2019 presented Amitabh Bachchan with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2018, Indian cinema’s highest honour, in a special ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on December 29, 2019. Amitabh Bachchan made his Read More …
Hemant Soren on December 29, 2019 took oath as the 11th chief minister of the state in a swearing-in ceremony in Ranchi. Governor Draupadi Murmu administered the oath to Mr. Soren. This is the second time that Soren, 44, has Read More …
The senior seer of Pejawar Mutt, Vishwesha Tirtha Swami, passed away in Udupi on December 29, 2019, following a brief illness. He was 88. He was buried at Poornaprajna Vidyapeetha, a traditional gurukul he started and nurtured in Bengaluru, as Read More …
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has constituted a committee to improve quality of data released by the Central Government. The 28-member Standing Committee on Statistics (SCES) is chaired by former Chief Statistician Pronab Sen. The committee will have Read More …
Amitabha Bagchi was awarded DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019 for his novel “Half the Night is Gone”, published in 2018. Pradeep Gawali, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal presented the award to Mr. Bagchi at the Eighth edition Read More …
Government has decided to appoint Vice Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, as the next Chief of the Army Staff after the retirement of General Bipin Rawat on December 31, 2019. Lt Gen Read More …
Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, known as the “Dalai Lama of the Rainforest,” has received Right Livelihood Award 2019. This award is also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”. Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa has led his people’s 20-year campaign to protect Read More …
Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. In 2018, she started an environmental strike by missing lessons most Fridays to protest outside the Swedish parliament building. It sparked a worldwide movement that Read More …
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind conferred the National Florence Nightingale Awards to 36 awardees at a ceremony in Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on December 5, 2019. While the award to Late Smt. Lini Sajeesh from Kozhikode, Read More …
A batch of three trainee officers of the 7th Dornier Conversion Course (DOCC) including a lady officer qualified as Dornier pilots and were awarded the coveted golden “Wings” ata simple and solemnceremony held at INS Garuda on 02 Dec 19. Read More …
Smt. Soma Roy Burman, a 1986-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) Officer, took charge as the new Controller General of Accounts on December 1, 2019. Smt. Burman is the 24th Controller General of Accounts (CGA) and is the seventh woman to Read More …