The 2023 winners of the Breakthrough Prizes were announced on September 22 and will split a total of more than $15 million. Key points The Breakthrough Prizes, dubbed the “Oscars of Science, was created in 2010 by a group of Read More …
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Booker prize winning author Hilary Mantel dies aged 70
Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70. Key points She won the Booker Prize twice, for 2009’s Wolf Hall, the first in the Thomas Cromwell series, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Read More …
India wins UN award for India Hypertension Control Initiative
India has won a UN award for its “India Hypertension Control Initiative, IHCI which is a large-scale hypertension intervention under National Health Mission. The IHCI has been recognized for its exceptional work within India’s existing primary healthcare system. The IHCI Read More …
64th Ramon Magsaysay Award winners
The Ramon Magsaysay Award is presented in formal ceremonies in Manila, Philippines on August 31st, the birth anniversary of the former Philippine President whose ideals inspired the Award’s creation in 1957. The Ramon Magsaysay Award was conceived to honor greatness Read More …
Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2022
Annabelle M Rayson -a student from Canada has received the prestigious 2022 Stockholm Junior Water Prize for her research on how to treat and prevent harmful algae blooms. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden announced the winner during a ceremony at World Read More …
Nagaland gets its second Railway station ‘Shokhuvi’
North-Eastern state Nagaland got its second Railway station on Dhansari-Shokhuvi railway line after a gap of more than 100 years, since Dimapur station was opened in 1903. Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio officially flagged off the first passenger train service- Read More …
Samir Kamat is new Chairman of DRDO
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on August 25, 2022 appointed Samir V. Kamat as Secretary, Department of Defence Research and Development and Chairman, Defence Research and Development Organisation. Incumbent chairman G. Satheesh Reddy has been made the Scientific Adviser Read More …
Angela Merkel win 2022 Felix Houphouet-Boigny Unesco Peace Prize
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has been awarded the 2022 Felix Houphouet-Boigny Unesco Peace Prize for her efforts to welcome refugees. According to UNESCO, all the members of the jury were touched by her courageous decision in 2015 to welcome Read More …
National CSR Awards 2020
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, instituted the annual National Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Awards to recognize companies that have made positive impact on the society through their innovative & sustainable CSR initiatives. These awards are the apex Read More …
Marina becomes first South Asian to win Lisbon Triennale Lifetime Achievement Award
Marina Tabassum- a renowned Bangladeshi architect, researcher and educator has become the first person from the global south and first south Asian to win the prestigious Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Lifetime Achievement Award. Key highlights She was awarded for presenting Read More …
Shri Justice Uday Umesh Lalit appointed as 49th Chief Justice of India
In exercise of the power conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India, the President has appointed Shri Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, Judge of the Supreme Court as the Chief Justice of India. Justice Uday Umesh Read More …
Dr N. Kalaiselvi appointed first woman Director General of CSIR
The Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet has cleared the name of N. Kalaiselvi, as the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). In its 80-year history, the CSI gets its first woman Director-General. N. Kalaiselvi Read More …
Indermit Gill appointed Chief Economist of World Bank
Indian national Indermit Gill has been appointed as World Bank’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. His appointment was announced by World Bank President David Malpass. Mr Gill will succeed American economist Carmen Reinhart in the role Read More …
Gita Gopinath becomes first woman on IMF’s ‘wall of former chief economists’
Indian-origin Gita Gopinath became the first woman and second Indian to feature on the ‘wall of former chief economists’ of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The first Indian to achieve the honour was Raghuram Rajan who was Chief Economist and Read More …
Maryna Viazovska becomes the second female to win Fields Medal
Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska, chair of Number Theory at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, was named as one of four recipients of the 2022 Fields Medal. Other winners The other winners were French mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin of Read More …