‘Tomb Of Sand’ Won International Booker Prize: Tomb of Sand’, has become the first book written in an Indian language to be awarded the International Booker Prize. Originally published in Hindi as Ret Samadhi, the book is written by Author Geetanjali Shree and translated into English by Daisy Rockwell. The book narrates the story of […]
Bilateral Security And Defence Cooperation: India-Japan
Bilateral Security And Defence Cooperation: India-Japan India and Japan agreed to further enhance Bilateral Security and Defence Cooperation, including in defence manufacturing. Highlights of the Meeting: Both sides should work jointly towards implementing their decision to have 5 trillion yen in public and private investment and financing from Japan to India in the next five […]
Annual Survey Of Industries
Annual Survey Of Industries: Provisional results of the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) was released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The survey was conducted during April 2021 to January 2022 through ASI Web Portal. ASI, the principal source of industrial statistics in India, is the most comprehensive data on organised manufacturing. […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 27th May 2022
Today Current Affairs: 27th May 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
National Conference Of Women Legislators
National Conference Of Women Legislators: The two-day National Conference of Women Legislators has been inaugurated on 26th May 2022 by President Ram Nath Kovind in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Arif Mohammed Khan, the governor of Kerala presided over the inaugural session at the Kerala Legislative Assembly Complex. This event will be drawing a large number of female […]
Bongosagar Exercise
Bongosagar Exercise: The third edition of Exercise Bongosagar, bilateral naval exercise between India and Bangladesh, commenced at Port Mongla, Bangladesh. It is an annual exercise. Second edition of the exercise, held in Northern Bay of Bengal in 2020. The exercise is aimed at developing a high degree of interoperability and joint operational skills through the […]
7th India-Canada Joint JSTCC Meeting
7th India-Canada Joint JSTCC Meeting: Two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) were renewed at the 7th India-Canada Joint Science and Technology Cooperation Committee (JSTCC) meeting. The MoUs were signed by the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and National Research Council Canada (NRC), respectively, under […]
Digital India BHASHINI
Digital India BHASHINI: The Ministry of Electronics and IT conducted a brainstorming session with Researchers and Start-ups aimed to shape strategy for Digital India BHASHINI [BHASHa INterface for India]. The government intends to integrate start-ups’ innovation, development and consumption of technology. Digital India BHASHINI is India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) led language translation platform. A Bhashini […]
Recognition Of Sex Work As a Profession : Supreme Court
Recognition Of Sex Work As a Profession : Supreme Court The Supreme Court, in a significant order has recognised sex work as a “profession” whose practitioners are entitled to dignity and equal protection under law. The Supreme Court has directed that police should neither interfere nor take criminal action against adult and consenting sex workers. […]
PARAM PORUL Supercomputer
PARAM PORUL Supercomputer: PARAM PORUL, a state-of the art Supercomputer at NIT Tiruchirappalli was dedicated to the nation under Phase 2 of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). A MoU was signed between NIT Tiruchirappalli and Centre for Development in Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in 2020 to establish this 838 TeraFlops Supercomputing Facility under NSM. NIT, Tiruchirappalli […]
