Former Vice-President Hamid Ansari presented the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development of 2021 to Pratham. Pratham is an NGO functioning in the field of education. The award is in recognition of Pratham’s work in ensuring quality education for...

Beth Mead has become the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022 after guiding the Lionesses to victory in the Women's Euros. Beth Mead won the Golden Boot after scoring six goals and was also the Player of the Tournament in the Women's Euros. Beth Mead defeated...

Former Supreme Court judge Hemant Gupta has been appointed as the chairperson of the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC). The NDIAC was established for the purpose of creating an independent and autonomous regime for institutionalized arbitration....

Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize: The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize has been jointly won by Sudeep Sen for his genre and form bender Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann Books & Media, 2021) and Shobhana Kumar for her haibun...

Goa will host India’s first-ever World Table Tennis (WTT) series event from February 27 to March 5. The top tier WTT Star Contender Goa 2023 will take place at the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor stadium, located at the Goa University Campus.  Stupa Analytics, a...

The SJVN’s 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri Hydropower Station (NJHPS) has won the 'Best Performing Hydro Sector Project' award. The award was presented during the ‘PRAKASHmay’ 15th ENERTIA Awards 2022 - India and South Asia’s Awards for Excellence in Sustainable Energy, Power,...

Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal launched a host of new initiatives, including the right-to-repair portal and an NTH mobile app, and opened new premises of the National Consumer Helpline center in Delhi. On the 'right to repair' portal, manufacturers...

In Gujarat, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Shankar Chowdhary has been made the unopposed Speaker, and senior MLA Jetha Bharwad the Deputy Speaker of the 15th State Assembly. The election for the Assembly posts of Speaker and Deputy Speaker was held on 20th December during...

Social Progress Index (SPI) for States and Districts made by the Institute for Competitiveness and Social Progress Imperative was submitted to Economic Advisory Council- Prime Minister and released today. SPI is a comprehensive tool that can serve as a holistic...

The Gross collection of Direct Taxes has registered a growth of 25.90 percent which stood at 13,63,649 crore rupees in the financial year 2022-23. The Gross collection in the corresponding period stood at 10,83,150 crore rupees. According to...