The Government has launched Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) with the vision of providing end-to end solutions in irrigation supply chain, viz. water...
Current Affairs: Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman has been awarded this year’s “Jewish Nobel” for his accomplishments as a musician, teacher and advocate for the...
Actor Dilip Kumar was presented with Padma Vibhushan by Home Minister Rajnath Singh at his residence in Mumbai.
The 93-year-old veteran got fame with Naya...
Current Affairs: Archbishop of Bhopal Leo Cornelio has received the prestigious International Human Rights Award for the year 2015.
The Archbishop’s name was nominated by...
Current Affairs: Indian-origin writer Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali has been declared the winner of this year’s prestigious South East Asia Write Award.
Born in Madras in...
Current Affairs: Mumbai Police Commissioner Ahmad Javed has been appointed Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
The Ministry of External Affairs said Mr Javed is expected to...
A Delhi government school at the President's Estate was declared as the capital's first Solar Powered Green School.
Dr Rajendra Prasad Sarvodaya Vidyalaya will generate...
Muskan Devta was presented the Supreme ACC Attitude Award for 2015 at Auckland's Viaduct Events Centre.
A 16-year-old girl Muskan Devta, suffering from hemiplegia, has...
Students of a Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in Odisha set a Guinness world record for the 'largest human sentence'.
They arranged themselves into...
Current Affairs: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his US visit, announced the launch of $150 million Bharat Fund, aimed at creating and providing support...
The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated ‘Umang-2015’,a Festival of Energy at the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Sarvodaya Vidyalaya School in President’s Estate on December...
Kapil Chopra, President, The Oberoi Group, has been appointed as the Chairman of World Travel & Tourism Council, India Initiative (WTTCII) for 2016.
The Annual...
Important Current Affairs: An Indian-American doctor Rena N D'Souza has been elected vice-president of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR).
An alumni of Government...
Latest GK 2015: Prakash Kumar Singh was appointed as news Chairman and Managing Directions of government PSU SAIL. He was selected by Public Enterprise...
Time magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its "Person of the Year 2015," hailing her leadership for navigating debt and refugee crises that...
Frank Islam, a prominent Indian American entrepreneur and philanthropist has been awarded the inaugural UP Ratna award.
The award will be given by Uttar Pradesh...
The Union Minister for the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MoIA) and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Smt. Sushma Swaraj launched the “Bharat...
From parades to soccer matches, school debates, and the lighting up of hundreds of iconic monuments, starting tomorrow a United Nations call to “Orange...
Professor Mahan Maharaj is the winner of a Rs. 65 lakh-prize for his work in geometry.
The highly-regarded mathematics professor who has just been appointed...
Standard Chartered named Zarin Daruwala as new chief executive of its India operations.
Daruwala was president of the wholesale lending team at ICICI Bank Ltd.
Daruwala...
Bangladesh national and former Awami League leader Nur Hossain, prime accused in the sensational 7-murder case, was deported to Dhaka by India.
Police said Indian...
Former RBI Deputy Governor Subir Gokaran was appointed as an Executive Director on the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The name of the...
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has made a debut in the world's top 100 universities for engineering and technology.
IISc made its entry...
Government has extended the tenure of a high level committee set up under former
Chief Economic Advisor Ashok Lahiri by one year.
Ashok Lahiri Committee was...
These are the international years currently observed by the United Nations or UN observed International years:
2016
International Year of Pulses
International Year of Camelids
2015
International Year of...
Under the slogan ‘nutritious seeds for a sustainable future,’ the United Nations, led by its Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), launched the 2016 International...
Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan was appointed as vice chairman of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Rajan was appointed to a three-year...
COUNTRY - CAPITAL CITY - RIVER
Afghanistan - Kabul - River Kabul.
Albania - Tirana - River Tirane.
Andorra - Andorra La Vella - The Gran Valira.
Argentina...
Iran has appointed its first woman ambassador since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Marzieh Af-kham was named as the head of its embassy in Malaysia.
Afkham was...
Ministry of Science and Technology launched a new programme SATYAM-''Science and Technology of Yoga and Meditation'' to strengthen research in the areas of yoga...
The 21st International Conference on ‘Frontiers in Yoga Research and its Applications’ (INCOFYRA) will bring together traditional and modern medical systems.
The 21st INCOFYRA will...
The Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh inaugurated the Asia’s foremost Information Security Conference: Ground Zero Summit 2015 today.
The theme for the Summit is Digital...
Newly Elected Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named a 31-member Cabinet as he was sworn into office as Canada's 23rd prime minister.
Bill Morneau has...
Rajasthan Government decided to relax the two child policy which was applicable to the state government employees, allowing them to have a third child...
‘IMPRINT India’, a Pan-IIT and IISc joint initiative to develop a roadmap for research to solve major engineering and technology challenges in ten technology...
The Mysuru railway station has become the first visually challenged-friendly station in the country.
Tracit maps and train schedules in Braille have been put up...
The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated session of the "7th Nuclear Energy Conclave" in Delhi.
It...
A China-made quadruped robot sets the Guinness World Records book for walking 134-km in 54 hours.
Four-legged robot 'Xingzhe No 1', made by a research...
China's unvelied its first big passenger plane C919 to challenge foreign giants Airbus and Boeing for market share.
C919 a narrow-body jet which can seat...
Marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon honoured journalists who were killed in the line...
First international film festival for the persons with disabilities (IFFPD) will be held in Delhi from 1st to 3rd December 2015.
The festival organized to...
Ministry of Railways in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is organizing an International Summit on “Energy Efficient Technologies in Railways” on 06.11.2015...
The Delhi Metro has become the first metro service in the country to be certified with the prestigious International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) rating...
Boosting government's ambitious 'Digital India' drive, Facebook has come forward to facilitate state-run BSNL in setting up 100 wi-fi sites in rural areas of...
With a view to provide confirmed accommodation to waitlisted passengers and also to ensure optimal utilisation of available accommodation, a scheme Alternate Train Accommodation...
The nation will celebrate the birth anniversary of the first Deputy Prime Minister of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas or the...
Cyclone Chapala could become the strongest on record in the Arabian Sea and may make an unprecedented landfall at hurricane strength along the coast...
A seven day cultural festival of India – Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav, drawing performing artists, artisans, handicrafts and cuisine from all across the country will...
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in pon for insulting Islam, was awarded the European Parliament's prestigious...
Mangaluru International Airport has received the World Quality Commitment (WQC) award in Gold category, which was instituted by the Spain-based Business Initiative Directions (BID).
The...
IRS officer Najib Shah was appointed as Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), apex body on Indirect Taxes.
The Appointments Committee of...
CULTURAL (25)
Agra Fort (1983)
Ajanta Caves (1983)
Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi (1989)
Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park (2004)
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) (2004)
Churches and Convents of Goa (1986)
Elephanta...
Dr. Sekhar Basu took the charge as Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy in Mumbai.
Dr. Ratan Kumar Sinha, Chairman, Atomic...
Dengue is viral disease, transmitted by bites of female adult Aedes mosquitoes. This mosquito breeds in containers like cement tanks, overhead tanks, underground tanks,...
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will confer the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for the year 2014 at a...
Bibek Debroy Committee on the restructuring of Indian Railways
Vijay Kelkar Committee to review and revitalize public private partnership mode of
infrastructure development
Ajay Shankar Committee to...
With a view to provide confirmed accommodation to waitlisted passengers and also to ensure optimal utilisation of available accommodation, a scheme called Alternate Train...
Marlon James, the Jamaican novelist, has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for "A Brief History of Seven Killings," his fictional retelling...
These are the international days currently observed by the United Nations. New international days are established regularly.
7 January: International Day of Commemoration in Memory...
In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize.
The Prize...
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2015 is awarded to Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in...
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl (Sweden), Paul Modrich (USA) and Aziz Sancar (USA) "for mechanistic studies of DNA...
Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan launched KISAN Project of Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & FW, Ministry...
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to with one half jointly to William C. Campbell (USA) and Satoshi Omura (Japan) for their...
Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart appointed Sriram Venkataraman as the CFO for its commerce platform and Pramod Jain as Vice President and Head of Taxation.
Sriram, as...
Current Affairs: S Mookerjee has taken over as the new Financial Commissioner — Railways and ex-officio Secretary to the Government of India. He succeeds...
