Eminent Malayalam poet Akkitham has been chosen for the 55th Jnanpith Award. “The Jnanpith Selection Board has announced the recipient of the 55th Jnanpith Award for the year 2019in a meeting. It went to Shri Akkitham, eminent Indian poet writing …
– ISRO launched CARTOSAT-3 satellite from Sriharikota – The PSLV-C47 carried the CARTOSAT-3 satellite along with the other commercial nano-satellites for US – CARTOSAT-3 is a third-generation agile satellite with high-resolution imaging capabilities PSLV-C47 lifted-off at 0928Hrs (IST) on …
The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2019 will be conferred on renowned naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. His name was selected for the prize by an international jury chaired by former president Pranab Mukherjee, the …
The Supreme Court cleared the way for the construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site at Ayodhya, and directed the Centre to allot a 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a mosque. In one of …
Justice Bobde will be the 47th Chief Justice of India. His term will run until April 23, 2021. – Born on 24 April 1956 at Nagpur, Maharashtra, Justice Bobde studied in the Nagpur University. He joined the Bombay High Court …
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have jointly won the 2019 Booker Prize after judges flout the rules by declaring a tie. British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie’s tragicomic ‘Quichotte’ was among the six books shortlisted for the prize. The Booker rules …
Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” 58-year-old Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he …
Nobel Peace Prize 2019 to be awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali for efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea. Abiy Ahmed …
Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Handke won the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes for literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 Mr. Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and …
The 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been announced. Three scientists, John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, have been jointly awarded the coveted prize for their development of lithium-ion batteries. In a tweet, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences …