February 6 marks the 131st birth anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, legendary Pashtun freedom fighter and pacifist a Pakhtun or Pathan from the North West Frontier Province, now called Khyber Pakhtunkhwa….
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January 3 is the birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule– the first woman teacher of the first women’s school in India and a pioneer in modern Marathi poetry. …
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Tourists can no longer get too close to the iconic stone chariot in front of the Vijaya Vittala Temple in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hampi. The architectural marvel…
Read MoreNation pays homage to the Architect of the Indian Constitution, Bharat Ratna, Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar on his 64th Mahaparinirvan Diwas.He died on December 6, 1956. The day is observed as Mahaparinirvan…
Read MoreRussia brokered a new peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the two countries that have been in a military conflict over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus.(…
Read MoreThe Financial Action Task Force (FATF) decided to keep Pakistan on the “greylist” till the next review of its compliance to the recommendations in February next year LEARNING FROM HOME/ WITHOUT CLASSES/…
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 MoreUnion Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has informed that indigenous toy-making will be introduced as a theme in Kala Utsav to encourage students to explore and develop a variety of…
Read MoreUmang app users can now check the weather forecast of their city using the app. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has added its weather services to Umang app; users will be able to…
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