In a first, eight of India’s beaches including Shivrajpur (Dwarka-Gujarat), Ghoghla (Diu), Kasarkod and Padubidri (Karnataka), Kappad (Kerala), Rushikonda (AP), Golden Beach (Odisha) and Radhanagar (A&N Islands) got the eco-label…
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Spain’s Rafael Nadal made history by winning a record 13th French Open title and 20th Grand Slam title with victory over Novak Djokovic in the Paris final; matching Federer’s record…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas (SVAMITVA) scheme. The aim is to enable villagers to use a property as…
Read MoreThe Nobel Peace Prize 2020 is awrded to the World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas…
Read MoreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.” FACTS AND FIGURES In 1968, Sveriges…
Read MoreThe U.S.-Taliban peace deal was signed in Doha on February 29,2020 and the Inter-Afghan negotiations are under process. INDIA AND AFGHANISTAN India has contributed to the economic reconstruction of war-ravaged Afghanistan, adopting…
Read MoreAn equinox is a day when the sun is in its apex over the Equator, and the Earth experiences days and nights of generally equal length. There are two equinoxes in a year: around March…
Read MoreThe Rajya Sabha passed The Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Bill, 2020 — legislation that provides for up to five years in jail for those attacking doctors and healthcare workers fighting the…
Read MoreIndia has been elected as a member of the United Nation’s Commission on Status of Women, a body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). India, Afghanistan and China had…
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