Padma Shri recipient and founder of the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre Major HPS Ahluwalia passed away on Friday evening. He was 85. HPS Ahluwalia was a trained mountaineer, author and social worker, besides being an army officer. Above all, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan (2002), Padma ...

Pakistan’s Babar Azam was named the captain of the team, while his opening partner in the national side Mohammad Rizwan was picked as the specialist wicketkeeper. The ICC Team of the Year recognises 11 best players in men’s cricket who have impressed one and all with their ...

India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has projected the real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of the Indian economy to grow at 7.6 percent year-on-year in 2022-23 (FY23). Ind-Ra is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fitch Group. However, the size of the Indian economy in FY23 ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Mauritian counterpart Pravind Jugnauth jointly inaugurated the India-assisted Social Housing Units Project in Mauritius through video-conferencing on January 20, 2022 and virtually laid the foundation stone for the Civil Service College ...

New Biography of Subhas Chandra Bose authored by Chandrachur Ghose: A new biography titled “Bose: The Untold Story of An Inconvenient Nationalist” will be released in February 2022. The biography has been written by researcher and founder of ‘Mission Netaji’ Chandrachur Ghose. ...

Albert Bourla, chairman and chief executive of global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., was awarded on on January 19, 2022 the prestigious Genesis Prize for his efforts in leading the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. The award comes with cash prize of $1 million. The annual prize is ...

The Oxford University Press has declared 'Anxiety' as Children's Word of the Year 2021. Apart from “anxiety” (21%),  “Challenging” (19%), “isolate” (14%), “Wellbeing” (13%) and “resilience” (12%) were the children’s top five words. In 2020, Coronavirus was the Children’s Word of the Year by ...

Current Affairs is the most important area in all competitive exams. But the difficulty level is very high. That’s why; many aspirants get confused, how to select Current Affairs for Preparation of Competitive Examination? In this Post, Daily Current Affairs 20 January 2022, we have tried to cover ...

Maltese center-right politician Roberta Metsola has been elected as the new European Parliament President, a week after the body's previous head David Sassoli died suddenly, and she immediately faced questions around her stance on abortion rights. The 43-year-old is the only third woman ...

Markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on January 19, 2022 launched “Saa₹thi” – a mobile app on investor education in Mumbai. The new app aims to create awareness among investors about the basic concepts of the securities market, KYC process, trading and settlement, mutual ...

Eminent environmentalist and former Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP) president Professor MK Prasad has passed away due to complications of COVID-19. He was 89. He played leadership role in the ‘Save Silent Valley’ campaign in the state in 1970s. The campaign was ...

The Navies of India and Japan conducted a major maritime partnership exercise in the Bay of Bengal on January 13, 2022 to improve defence collaboration between the two nations. From India, the Indian Naval ships INS Shivalik and INS Kadmatt took part in the ...