The first 'National Dolphin Day' was celebrated on 5th October 2022. In March 2022, the Union Environment Ministry had announced to organize 5th October every year as 'National Dolphin Day'.The Gangetic dolphin is an indicator species, whose status provides...

US President Joe Biden has appointed Indian-origin Dr. Vivek Murthy as America's representative on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO).Dr Murthy, 45, will serve in the new position alongside his continued duties as the US Surgeon General.As the...

Writer Dr Madhav Hada will be awarded the 32nd Bihari Puraskar for his 2015 literary criticism book ‘Pachrang Chola Pahar Sakhi Ri’, the KK Birla Foundation announced. A literary critic and academic, Hada has written extensively on literature, media, culture and...

India has emerged as the world’s largest producer and consumer of sugar as well as the world’s second-largest exporter of sugar.In the recently-concluded sugar season (October 2021 to September 2022), a record 5,000+ lakh metric tons (LMT) of sugarcane was produced in...

President Draupadi Murmu has said If the states move forward by learning and adopting each other’s successful models, then India will definitely ensure its place as a developed country during the Amrit Kal.The president was addressing a public gathering after...

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) can reveal that Mumtaz Khan of India and Timothée Clément of France have been named the FIH Rising Stars of the Year 2021-22 in the women’s and men’s category respectively.Mumtaz Khan burst on to the international hockey scene...

Arunachal Pradesh governor Brig. (Dr) B.D. Mishra (retired) on October 04, 2022, took oath as the governor of Meghalaya in addition to position of Arunachal Pradesh.Brigadier (Retd) B.D. Mishra, who served as the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, was given additional...

UNCTAD projects that world economic growth will slow to 2.5% in 2022 and drop to 2.2% in 2023. The global slowdown would leave real GDP still below its pre-pandemic trend, costing the world more than $17 trillion – close to 20% of the world’s income.According to the...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has won the United Nations refugee agency’s prestigious Nansen Refugee Award, receiving praise for her determination to protect asylum seekers while in office.At the time, the woman who lead the German government for 16 years...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry."The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 is about...