The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its latest World Economic Outlook report, cut its forecast for India’s gross domestic product (GDP)growth in financial year 2022-23 (FY23) by 60 basis points…
Read MoreThe Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, Philip H. Dybvig “for research on banks and financial crises” FACTS AND FIGURES In 1968, Sveriges…
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 to one individual and two organisations. This year’s Peace Prize is awarded to human rights advocate…
Read MoreThe French writer Annie Ernaux has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature. The 82-year-old writer is known for works that blur the line between memoir and fiction. FACTS…
Read MoreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”. Sharpless and Meldal…
Read MoreThe Supreme Court has allowed the municipal corporation of Greater Mumbai to commence partial development work in the ongoing Mumbai Coastal Road Project while observing that sustainable development is an…
Read MoreThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing…
Read MoreThe 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Svante Pääbo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. The relationship between Homo sapiens…
Read MoreThe Supreme Court(SC) observed that preventive detention is a serious invasion of personal liberty and all safeguards allowed under law must be adhered to. The SC bench also set aside…
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