Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Gujarat High Court Judge Justice Jamshed Burjor Pardiwala have been appointed as judges of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court will have its full sanctioned strength of 34 judges until the retirement of Justice Vineet Saran on May 10.
Justice B.V. Nagarathna, is in line to be the first woman CJI.
Nepal’s legendary climber Kami Rita Sherpa has climbed the Mt Everest, the tallest peak in the world for the 26th time to set a new world record. Leading an 11-member rope fixing team, Kami Rita & his team reached the summit, breaking his own previous world record.
He first climbed the Everest in May 1994.
Poumai tribe, one of the major Naga tribes living in Manipur's hill district, Senapati have recently declared their villages a no-drugs zone in order to help the state government curb the drugs menace including illegal poppy cultivation.
The step would also help in protecting & preserving forests, which are being destroyed for poppy cultivation.
Shri Bhagwanth Khuba, Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers & New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of India visited RCF Trombay Unit at Chembur, Mumbai, and launched the newly manufactured NPK grade of Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers limited (RCF) – Suphala 10:26:26.
A three-day Utkarsh Mahotsav is being organized by Central Sanskrit University in New Delhi.
The objective behind organising the Utkarsh Mahotsav is to promote Sanskrit language across the country and beyond.
The focus of the Mahotsav is - the New Educational Era - Moving Towards a Global Orientation of Sanskrit Studies.
Kerala Government has approved the medico-legal protocol related to medical examination of arrested persons and remanded prisoners.
The protocol makes it mandatory that the application for medico-legal examination be handed over to a serving medical officer in the State or Central Service.
In a bid to commemorate the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, every year on May 8, World Red Cross day is celebrated.
The day also marks the birth anniversary of Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the recipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize.
The theme for 2022 is ‘Be Human Kind’.
The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) founded on 7th May 1960 as a leading road construction agency under the Ministry of Defence with Shramena Sarvam Sadhyam (everything is achievable through hardwork) as its motto.
Its primary goal is to secure India’s borders and developing infrastructure in remote areas of India’s north and northeastern states for defence forces.
BRO Director General:- Lt. Gen. Rajeev Chaudhary
Union Minister of Information & Broadcasting Shri. Anurag Singh Thakur has announced that the World’s largest film restoration project under National Film Heritage Mission (NFHM) with a budget of Rs. 363 crores is awarded on 4th May 2022 by the Ministry.
The restoration project now awarded is set to commence in full swing at National Film Archive of India (NFAI).
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched a Vehicle Movement Tracking System (VMTS) mobile app that will help in tracking vehicles carrying sand and other mining material.
The app will be used at different checkpoints in all the districts of Haryana and vehicle details —like vehicle number, vehicle type, moving from, moving to — along with driver details.
Uttar Pradesh government will provide free wi-fi facility at more than 58 thousand places in the villages of the state. This internet facility will be available for the people within 50 meters of the Gram Sachivalaya (village secretariat) building which is being built in every Gram Panchayat of the state.
Motorsport pioneer Tony Brooks, who won six Formula One grands prix in the 1950s and was nicknamed the “Racing Dentist”, has died aged 90.
The Briton had been the last surviving Formula One race winner of the 1950s.
In order to realize green energy objectives and the GOI’s efforts towards a carbon-neutral economy, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) in New Delhi.
The move will help generate solar power up to 71.68 megawatts.
The Central government has released the Civil Registration System (CRS) report 2020 based on birth and death reports.
The Vital Statistics of India based on the Civil Registration System’ for 2020 report said that case of registered deaths, the number has increased from 76.4 lakh in the year 2019 to 81.2 lakhs in 2020 showing an increase of 6.2 percent.
India won its second gold medal in shooting at the ongoing 24th Deaflympics in Caxias do Sul, Brazil, with Abhinav Deshwal claiming the men's 10m air pistol title.
Abhinav made the top eight final round after finishing second in the 60-shot qualification round with a score of 575 out of 600.
World Thalassemia Day is marked on May 8, every year.
Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder in which the body fails to create enough haemoglobin, resulting in the weakening and destruction of red blood cells. This year
Theme is “Be Aware. Share. Care: Working with the global community as one to improve Thalassemia knowledge.”