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Polish striker Robert Lewandowski has won the FIFA Best Men’s Player award for 2021. Lewandowski won the award for the second straight year. Spanish midfielder Alexia Putellas has won the FIFA Best Women’s Player prize for 2021. The Best FIFA Read More …
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on January 19, 2021 launched “Saa₹thi” mobile application. It is a mobile app on investor education which aims to create awareness among investors about the basic concepts of the securities market. The Read More …
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi delivered the Keynote address at the national launch ceremony of ‘Azadi Ke Amrit Mahotsav se Swarnim Bharat Ke Ore’ on 20th January, 2022. The program unveiled yearlong initiatives dedicated to Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav by Read More …
The Denison barb (Miss Kerala) has been included in Schedule I of the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021 which is a cateogry of highest protection. The Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha in December 2021. A section of Read More …
The population of the vulnerable eastern swamp deer has decreased from 907 individuals in 2018 to 868 in January 2022 in the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve. Officials attributed the decrease to two high floods in 2019 and 2020. Read More …
Union Power Secretary chaired the second meeting of Steering Committee for SAMARTH i.e. National Mission on Use of Biomass in coal based thermal Power Plants on 14.01.2022. He reviewed the status of bio-mass co-firing and progress of the actions being taken Read More …
The scientists at Climate Research and Services (CRS) office of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune, have launched India’s first Climate Hazards vulnerability atlas. The atlas is based on 14 extreme weather events and the risks they pose to the Read More …
Chinese researchers have built an “artificial moon” research facility that will enable them to simulate low-gravity environments using magnetism. They plan to use this facility to test technology in prolonged low-gravity environments before it is sent to the moon, where Read More …
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) organised an online event wherein it announced eleven winning cities for the Streets for People Challenge, and ten winning cities for the pilot stage of the Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge. These cities will now enter the scale Read More …
Nagaland’s Kohima War Cemetery with a tennis court has figured in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s (CWGC) five sites with unusual features. The Kohima War Cemetery has a feature that is possibly not shared by any other cemetery in the Read More …
Recently German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said that its country will do everything in its power to guarantee Ukraine’s security, amid rising Russian threat. She also said that attempts are being made to revive the Normandy format . The Normandy Read More …
The Ministry of Electronics and Information (MeitY) has sought applications from 100 academia, R&D organisations, start-ups and MSMEs under its Chips to Startup (C2S) Programme. The Chips to Startup (C2S) Programme aims to train 85,000 number of high-quality and qualified Read More …
On January 12, 2022, ISRO successfully conducted the qualification test of Cryogenic Engine for Gaganyaan programme for a duration of 720 seconds at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu. The performance of the engine met the test objectives and Read More …
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) on January 16 announced the initiation of the Open Data Week to encourage adoption of open data and promote innovation across India’s urban ecosystem. The Open Data Week is part of a series Read More …
A tri-service Court of Inquiry, headed by the Indian Air Force’s Air Officer Training Command Air Marshal Manvendra Singh, has submitted its preliminary findings into the Mi-17 V5 helicopter crash that killed the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Bipin Rawat, Read More …