The UNESCO, at the 18th session of the UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage held in the Republic of Botswana, approved the inclusion of garba, Gujarat’s most…

The 2023 Booker Prize, £50,000 prize, is won by Irish author Paul Lynch for his novel Prophet Song, set in an imagined Ireland that is descending into a tyranny; a…

India’s two cities are among the 55 new cities to join the network of. UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network (UCCN). The two  city are  Kozhikode in Kerala and  Gwalior from Madhya…

Bhikaiji Cama was an Indian political activist and advocate for women’s rights. Born, on 24 September 1861, to an extremely wealthy Parsi business family, received her early education in Bombay…

Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Ji (1670-1716), a brave Sikh warrior and founder of the Sikh Rule in Punjab was born on October 16, 1670 at Rajauri in Punchh District of…

The 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…

The 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…

The 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…

The 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…

Born on 22nd May 1772 Raja Ram Mohan Roy, died on 27 September 1833, a great social reformer, was a founder of the Brahmo Samaj movement in 1828. He is…