Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA) has conferred Government Leadership Award 2023 to India for implementing best practices in telecom policy and regulation. GSMA, which represents more than 750 mobile operators and 400 companies in the telecom ecosystem,...

Former bureaucrat Shailesh Pathak has been appointed as the new secretary-general of Ficci, the industry association said. “In a career spanning 37 years, Pathak has spent time in the government as an IAS Officer as well as helmed large companies in the private...

World Cup champion Lionel Messi was named best men's soccer player in 2022 by FIFA during a ceremony held in Paris on Monday. Meanwhile, U.S. women's national team star Alex Morgan finished second to Spain's Alexia Putellas for the women's 2022 award. Messi had 52...

GBBC India is the Indian implementation of the global Great Backyard Bird Count, which runs for 4 days every February. Indian birders have participated in the GBBC since the event went worldwide in 2013. The 2022 edition of GBBC engaged over 3,782 birders who uploaded...

The 2023 Marconi Prize has been awarded to Hari Balakrishnan, the Fujitsu Professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a principal investigator in the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The...

India has ranked 42nd among 55 leading global economies on the International IP Index released by the U.S. Chambers of Commerce. The United States ranks first in the 2023 index, followed by the UK and France. According to the report, India’s size and economic...

Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi has been appointed as the new Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO). Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi is a former Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission secretary-cum-scientific director. Rajeev Singh...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global organization that monitors financial crime, suspended Russia’s membership after finding that Moscow (Russia)‘s conflict in Ukraine breached the FATF’s principles. Ukraine, which has made repeated calls to exclude Russia...

The India Today Tourism Survey has chosen J&K Tourism for best adventure tourism destination award. The awards were given away at New Delhi by Union Minister of State for Culture & Parliamentary Affairs, Arjun Ram Meghwal at a glittering function after the...

Dr. Pardeep Pahwa, a lecturer in the department of physiotherapy at the Composite Regional Centre (CRC) for Skill Development, Rehabilitation and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Sundernagar, has been conferred with Guru Drona Physio Award. He was awarded...