Sports Authority of India Director General Sandip Pradhan was granted a tenure extension of more than two years in his present capacity by the Government of India.
It's the second extension granted to Pradhan. In May 2020, his tenure was extended by two years.
India has commissioned a one-of-a-kind liquid-mirror telescope atop a mountain in Uttarakhand's Himalayan range that will monitor the sky for transitory or variable objects such as supernovae, gravitational lenses, space debris, and asteroids. International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is the country's first and largest liquid-mirror telescope.
Coal imports, which had reached a peak of 248 Million Ton (MT) in 2019-20, declined continuously during the next two years to 215 MT in 2020-21 and further to 209 MT in 2021-22.
Despite steep rise in actual demand of coal from 956 MT in 2019-20 to 1027 MT in 2021-22, coal imports have not increased.
Coal is a critical input for power, fertilizer, iron & steel and cement sector.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, who is on a three-nation tour to Senegal along with a government delegation, has signed three MoUs -(cultural exchange, cooperation in youth matters and visa free regime for officials) with the West African country to further deepen bilateral partnership in various areas.
Senegal's Capital: Dakar; Currency: West African CFA franc.
The Meghalaya government key initiative of e-proposal system, part of Meghalaya Enterprise Architect has won a coveted UN Award- World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) prize at Geneva in Switzerland.
According to a agency report, the state received the best project award in the category of the role of governments in the promotion of ICTs for development.
Renowned Santoor maestro Pandit Bhajan Sopori passed away today in Gurugram. He was 74. He was suffering from colon cancer. He was former Director of Music at All India Radio and looked after Hindustani Classical Music. Along with Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, he is credited to have brought santoor, a lesser known Kashmiri instrument, into the global limelight.
The Union Cabinet has approved a proposal to expand the mandate of Government e-Marketplace (GeM) by allowing procurement by cooperatives.
Presently, the registration of cooperatives as buyers was not covered within the existing mandate of GeM.
The decision was taken by the Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Freedom fighter Anjalai Ponnusamy, who fought for India’s independence from colonial Britain, died, aged 102.
At the age of 21, Anjalai joined the Rani of Jhansi Regiment – the women’s regiment of the Indian National Army – in the hopes of discarding the yoke of British colonialism from the Indian people.
The Russian navy has conducted another test of a prospective hypersonic missile, a demonstration of the military's long-range strike capability amid the fighting in Ukraine.
The launch was the latest in a series of tests of Zircon, which is set to enter service later this year. Zircon is capable of flying at nine times the speed of sound and has a range of 1,000 km.
Following the Central government’s guideline advising against the usage of the word ‘Harijan’, the Delhi government is set to replace the word ‘Harijan’ from names of colonies & streets and name them after B.R. Ambedkar instead.
Delhi will be one of the first states in the country to curb the use of the word which many people claim is "offensive and derogatory".
President has conferred 1 Kirti Chakra and 14 Shaurya Chakras during Defence Investiture Ceremony (Phase-2) at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.
The President also conferred 13 Param Vishisht Seva Medals and 29 Ati Vishisht Seva Medals for distinguished service of an exceptional order.
Kirti Chakra (posthumously):- Ct Altaf Hussain Bhat, Constable, J&K Police.
US Department of Energy’s Frontier supercomputer was designated as the fastest computing system in the world, part of the agency’s growing portfolio of developmental computing technologies.
Housed in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, It stands out with 2 exaflops computing power, which translates to 2quintillion calculations per seconds.
The 17th edition of the Mumbai International Film Festival of India (MIFF) opened with a ceremony that saw the Dr V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement award being conferred on National award-winning author and documentary filmmaker Sanjit Narwekar to commemorate his body of work.
The award comprises a cash prize of Rs10 lakh, a trophy and a citation.
Elon Musk — the world’s richest man — was the top-paid chief executive officer in 2021, according to the Fortune 500. Musk drew a salary of around $23.5 billion (roughly Rs 1,82,576 crore) after he exercised some Tesla stock options awarded in a 2018 multiyear “moonshot” giant.
According to the Fortune 500, that was by far the biggest paycheck a CEO ever received.
Swati Dhingra has been appointed to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) by chancellor Rishi Sunak.
The MPC is responsible for deciding what monetary policy action the Bank of England will take to keep inflation low and stable. It meets eight times a year to set the Bank of England’s own interest rate.
Tamil Nadu government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the IPPB for obtaining life certificate from pensioners through doorstep services of the Postal Department.
The doorstep services of the IPPB, for obtaining digital life certificate through Jeevan Pramaan Portal to avoid hardship of coming in person for aged pensioners/family pensions.
The World Directory of Modern Military Aircraft (WDMMA) has released the Global Air Powers Ranking of 2022, which ranked the Indian Air Force as the 3rd strongest Air Force in the world. As per the report, the Indian Air Force was ranked higher than the Chinese Air Force but also the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, the Israeli Air Force, & the French Force in strength.
The United Nations granted Turkey’s request to change its name from Turkey to Turkiye, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
The change came into force immediately at the time when the world body received a letter from Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to the UN chief.
World Bicycle Day is observed on June 3. The day is marked to spread awareness about the benefits of using a bicycle. According to the United Nations, the day highlights the “uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle”. The day is observed since 2018 after a resolution was passed by the United Nations, during its 72nd Regular Session of the United Nations General.