Here is the list of winners at the 91st Academy Awards held at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. BEST PICTURE – Green Book ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE – Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE – Olivia Colman, The Favourite…
Month: February 2019
INDIA SHINES AT OSCARS 2019, PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE. WINS BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT) ACADEMY AWARD
Producer Guneet Monga film Period. End of Sentence – the film, set in India and dealing with menstruation taboo, took home the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The Documentary, featuring the real Pad Man Arunachalam Murgunantham, beat Black Sheep, End Game, Lifeboat and…
RAIL DRISHTI: REAL-TIME INDIAN RAILWAYS INFORMATION
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has inaugurated the new Rail Drishti Dashboard portal – raildrishti.cris.org.in. The portal- people will be easily able to access information related to Indian Railways, get details of freight trains and passengers trains as well as rail time table. People…
RBI MAKES CUT IN INTEREST RATE
Reserve Bank of India(RBI) reduced the policy interest rate by 25 basis points to 6.25 %, a move that could lead to banks reducing lending rates for consumer and home loans. The repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) stands at 6.25 per cent and reserve repo…
INDIA’S 40TH COMMUNICATION SATELLITE, GSAT-31, LAUNCHED
India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-31 was successfully launched .GSAT-31 is the 40th communication satellite of India. It will replace the InSAT satellite which is nearing the end of its life. Weighing about 2,535 kg, the GSAT-31 will provide continuity to operational services on some…
WHAT IS THE POLAR VORTEX?
The unusually cold weather in the hill states of North India and parts of the plains, including the New Delhi, has been indirectly caused by the Polar Vortex that spins over the North Pole.Arctic winds are pushing various weather systems, including…
WORLD WETLAND DAY: FEBRUARY 2
World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2 February. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar. This year’s World Wetlands Day under the theme of “Wetlands and Climate…