The Australian cricket community is mourning the death of Test legend Alan Davidson, who passed away aged 92 morning surrounded by family. Davidson was the first player to achieve the feat of scoring 100 runs as well as take 10 wickets in a single Test match. The legendary left-arm swing bowler played 44 Tests for […]
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The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI) is an UN-recognized international day observed annually on 2 November. Purpose: to prevent all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers; to ensure accountability, bring to justice perpetrators of crimes against journalists and media workers, and ensure that victims have access to appropriate remedies. The date of November
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The Ministry of Sports has decided to upgrade three new existing sports facilities across the country as the Khelo India Sports Centres of Excellence (KISCE). Stands a total number of KISCEs at 27 and KISCEs are spread across 26 States and Union Territories. The 3 new centers are : Guru Gobind Singh Sports College, Lucknow Chhatrasal Stadium, Delhi Jawaharlal
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National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) celebrates Ganga Utsav every year to mark the anniversary of the announcement of River Ganga as the ‘National River’ i.e. 4th November. This year’s Ganga Utsav is being organized from 1stto 3rd November 2021. The 2021 event has been organized under the leadership of the Union Minister for Jal Shakti,
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On 30-31 October Rome hosted the G20 Summit, the first held in Italy. At the end of two days of working sessions and side events, the G20 Leaders adopted the Rome Declaration. The document is the final outcome of an intense year of negotiations and events organized in the framework of the Italian G20 Presidency. It
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As world leaders prepared to gather for the UN climate change conference, COP26, in Glasgow in the UK, India launched an online dashboard – the ‘Climate Equity Monitor’ to assess equity in climate action, inequalities in emissions besides energy and resource consumption across the world. The dashboard also tracks the climate policies of several countries
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Pensioners can now subscribe for the Atal Pension Yojana (APY) pension scheme via Aadhaar eKYC. Pension fund regulator Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has added these options to expand its subscriber base and make the onboarding process simpler. Aim: to expand its subscriber base and simplify the onboarding process further. PFRDA is allowing enrollment of
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Telangana’s capital city Hyderabad is now home to India’s largest landfill gas-to-compressed biogas plant as Ramky Enviro has inaugurated the facility at the Hyderabad Integrated Municipal Solid Waste (HiMSW) site. The project is focused on the conversion of landfill gas into compressed biogas as an automotive fuel. The project offers significant benefits such as carbon sequestration and
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After analyzing 14.5 billion words used in daily news coverage in 2021, Oxford Languages’ lexicographers have chosen “vax” as word of the year. The reason: “Vax” was used 72 times as much as it was in 2020. Vax is used as a short form for vaccines and means a substance put into a person’s body to prevent them from getting a disease. Due to
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The critically endangered New Zealand long-tailed bat has been named the New Zealand Bird of the Year 2021. The pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat, swooped to victory in the public vote to be crowned 2021’s Bird of the Year! The Bird of the Year competition is organized annually by New Zealand-based independent conservation organization Forest & Bird to raise
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