herSTART Initiative: herSTART was recently launched by President of India, Draupadi Murmu. herSTART is an initiative implemented by the Gujarat University Startup and Entrepreneurship Council (GUSEC). It is supported by the state government of Gujarat, the Central Government and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal […]
Tag: 6th Oct 2022
Nansen Award
Nansen Award: Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently received the Nansen Refugee Award. Ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the UNHCR Nansen Award for providing asylum for refugees while in office. While Merkel was the Chancellor in 2015 and 2016, Germany welcomed more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers, especially from Syria. The UNHCR recognized […]
World Space Week 2022
World Space Week 2022: World Space Week is observed from October 4 to 10 every year. World Space Week is observed to create awareness about space activities, inspire next generation to contribute to those activities and promote international cooperation in space outreach and education. “Space and Sustainability” is the theme for this year’s World Space […]
International Year Of Millets (IYOM)-2023
International Year Of Millets (IYOM)-2023: A MOU was signed between the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited to promote Millets towards celebration of the International Year of Millets 2023. Key areas: Facilitating advisory support: To manufacturers/processors of millet-based products to develop value-added millet-based commodities On-boarding […]
Scheduled Tribe (ST) Status For The Pahari Community
Scheduled Tribe (ST) Status For The Pahari Community: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has announced Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the Pahari community in Jammu and Kashmir. He said that Justice GD Sharma Commission has recommended reservation for Paharis, Gujjars and Bakerwals and after completion of the administrative process, these communities will get reservation benefits. […]
Nobel Prize In Physics
Nobel Prize In Physics: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. Two of the laureates—John Clauser and Alain Aspect—worked on firming up the concept of quantum entanglement and developing more […]
Global News Forum 2022
Global News Forum 2022: Union Minister of State Dr L Murugan delivers keynote address at Global News Forum 2022. Global News Forum 2022 is the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)’s flagship three days annual NEWS event hosting around 80 foreign participants from the field of Media & Journalism from different broadcasting organizations. The topic of the […]
