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…

One of the stalwarts of India’s freedom movement, Bal Gangadhar Tilak also reverently addressed as Lokmanya (or “Beloved of the people”) was born in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra on July 23, 1856….

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…