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New Building of IARI, Jharkhand titled after Dr.Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

July 8, 2020
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
  • The new administrative and academic building of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), located at Gouria Karma in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand is titled after Shyama Prasad Mukherjee the originator of Bharatiya Jan Sangh, on the occasion of his birth anniversary.

Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary to be modernized into a National Park

July 7, 2020
Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary
  • After months of Controversy, the Assam State Government has concluded for the up-gradation of the status of the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary to National Park.
  • The verdict was taken on 6th July 2020 and was declared by the Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal.

Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, Chairman of NHAI receives 6 months extension

July 4, 2020
Sukhbir Singh Sandhu
  • Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, the Chairman of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) receives a 6 months continuation in his tenure as Chairman of NHAI. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet accepted the extension in central deputation tenure of Sandhu as Chairman of NHAI beyond 21st July 2020, till mid-January 2021.

Muttiah Muralitharan named Most Valuable Test cricketer of 21st century

June 30, 2020
Muttiah Muralitharan
  • Former Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan has been titled as the Most Valuable Test Player of the 21st Century by the Wisden Cricket Monthly magazine. Data concerning the performance of players had been gathered from 2000 to 2020.

NASA’s headquarter building identified after ‘Mary W.Jackson’

June 28, 2020
NASA
  • NASA declared that its headquarters will be entitled after one of its history-making engineers. In a news release, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told that the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters building will be named after Mary W. Jackson, its first African American female engineer.

World’s first Yoga University, named after Vivekananda, inaugurated outside India

June 25, 2020
Yoga University
  • 6th International Yoga Day celebrations, the world’s first yoga university outside India has been originated in Los Angeles, offering programmes that blend scientific principles and modern research approaches to the ancient Indian tradition of yoga.

Nepalese FM radio stations begin giving weather news of Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura

June 22, 2020
radio
  • After Nepal’s parliament supported the political map that displays the disputed areas of Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura as a portion of its territory earlier this month, some Nepalese FM radio stations close to India-Nepal border in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh have begun giving weather bulletins of these three areas.

500-yr-old temple comes up from Mahanadi water

June 17, 2020
500-yr-old temple comes up from Mahanadi water
  • An ancient temple, sunk in river Mahanadi, has reappeared after 11 years in Nayagarh district (Odisha). An archaeology survey team of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) stumbled upon ‘mastaka’ of the temple submerged in Mahanadi waters at Padmabati village under Bhapur tehsil.

NHAI to be the first construction sector organization to go ‘Fully Digital’

June 14, 2020
NHAI
  • National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) under Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has turned ‘Fully Digital’, with the start of unique cloud-based and Artificial Intelligence-powered Big Data Analytics platform – Data Lake and Project Management Software.

India to be 2nd nation to have contact-free ATM cash withdrawals

June 11, 2020
contact-free ATM cash withdrawals
  • In order to exclude the use of the physical card or touch an ATM PIN pad, amid the expanse of coronavirus from contaminated surfaces, Empays Payment Systems has tied hands with Mastercard to begin “Cardless ATM powered by Mastercard” in India based on the standards of EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa).