India has paid USD 29.9 million in UN regular budget appraisals for the year 2022. As of January 21, 2022, 24 Member States have settled up on their regular financial plan appraisals completely. With this India joins ‘2022 Honour Roll’ list of Member States that have paid their @UN Regular ...

The Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu was awarded the prestigious international TX2 Award for doubling its tiger population since 2010. Nepal’s Bardia National Park was also jointly conferred the award, for doubling its population of wild tigers. Sathyamangalam was designated a Tiger ...

The government appointed V Anantha Nageswaran as the chief economic advisor. He has assumed charge. The appointment comes just ahead of the government's economic survey and Budget 2022. The former Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian's term ended in December. V Anantha Nageswaran is ...

Subhash Chandra Garg has announced his debut book named “The $10 Trillion Dream”. He is former finance secretary of India. The book is scheduled to hit stands towards the end of February 2022. The new book explores the critical policy issues that India faces and suggests reforms for it to ...

The World Gold Council (WGC) in its ‘Gold Demand Trends 2021’ Report has informed that the global gold demand rose 10 % in 2021 to 4,021.3 tonnes. The overall gold demand during 2020, which was impacted following COVID-19 related disruptions, stood at 3,658.8 tonnes, the WGC said in its 'Gold ...

The world’s largest canal lock has been inaugurated at Ijmuiden, a small port city, in the Port of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The sea lock was inaugurated by Dutch King Willen-Alexander on January 26, 2022. The 500-meter (1,640-feet) long and 70-meter wide sluice replaces a smaller, nearly ...

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 28 January 2022, we have tried to cover ...

Lucknow’s IPL franchise, which is owned by Sanjiv Goenka (RPSG Group), has been renamed Lucknow Super Giants ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 mega auction. Lucknow team roped in KL Rahul as their captain and also roped in Australia all-rounder Marcus ...

Padma Shri winner and famous Kathakali artist Milena Salvini passed away. She was 84. Salvini was born in Italy but moved to France for learning music. In 1962, Salvini obtained a two-year scholarship training in Kathakali at the Kerala Kalamandalam. In 1975 she opened the Mandapa Centre in ...

Renowned Marathi author and social activist Anil Awachat has passed away due to a prolonged illness. He was 77. Dr Awachat was hospitalized some days back due to health problems, and he was brought home from the hospital around four days ago, the family member said. Dr Awachat was the founder ...

Captain of India’s 1964 Tokyo Olympics gold medal-winning hockey team, Charanjit Singh, died on Thursday at his home in Una, Himachal Pradesh after suffering a cardiac arrest that followed prolonged age-related illnesses. He was 90. He was also a member of the Indian team which won silver ...

Minister of State for Culture Meenakashi Lekhi has released the pictorial comic book ‘India’s Women Unsung Heroes’ in New Delhi. The book has been prepared by Culture Ministry in partnership with Amar Chitra Katha. The book portrays the stories and tales of valour of queens who battled ...