Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska, chair of Number Theory at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, was named as one of four recipients of the 2022 Fields Medal, an…

Gopal Krishna Gokhale, (born May 9, 1866—died Feb. 19, 1915), was an Indian liberal political leader and a social reformer during the Indian Independence Movement. His political affiliation was Indian…

Recently, Japan described four islands whose ownership it disputes with Russia as illegally occupied in the latest version of a diplomatic Bluebook. The Soviet Union(now Russia), which declared war on…

It was on April 18, 1982 at a symposium organised in Tunisia, that the holding of the “International Day for Monuments and Sites” to be celebrated was suggested. The idea…

The UN cultural agency UNESCO  re-elected France’s Audrey Azoulay as its director-general for a second mandate. LEARNING FROM HOME/ WITHOUT CLASSES/ BASICS UNESCO In 1945, UNESCO was created in order…

Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, was among 49 cities worldwide to join the UNESCO creative cities network (UCCN). The 49 cities were added to the network of…

South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday with “The Promise,” a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history. Galgut…

India, re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights(HR) Council for a sixth term. 18 member countries also elected. The other countries that elected the council are the United States, United…

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a…