Category: All Current Affairs

PM of Sri Lanka Rajapaksa to visit India on February 7

PM of Sri Lanka Rajapaksa

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will undertake a four-day visit to India and will talk about a number of key areas including trade, defence and maritime security cooperation.

39 Mega Food Parks and 298 Integrated Cold Chain Projects approves under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY)

PMKSY

The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) has approved 39 Mega Food Parks and 298 Integrated Cold Chain Projects throughout the country to fill in the gaps across the value chain and set up the Cold Chain Grid.

First cabaret dancer of Kolkata Miss Shefali passes away

Miss Shefali

First cabaret dancer of Kolkata Arati Das, also known by her stage name Miss Shefali, passed away.

Hollywood icon, Kirk Douglas passes away

Kirk Douglas

Legendary Actor Kirk Douglas, whose Hollywood career spanned seven decades, passed away at 103.

Rohit Rajpal to continue as captain of India’s Davis Cup

Rohit Rajpal

Rohit Rajpal will continue as captain of India’s non-playing Davis Cup while veteran Leander Paes, too, has kept his place in the six-member squad picked for the tie against Croatia next month.

Mizoram become Junior National Football champions for Dr BC Roy Trophy

Mizoram wins Junior National Football C’ship

In Football, Mizoram has won Junior National Football Championship for Dr BC Roy Trophy at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Shillong .

NASA astronaut Christina Koch comes back to Earth after record-setting stay in space

NASA astronaut Christina Koch

NASA’s astronaut Christina Koch came back after an 11-month mission and made world record for the most time spent by a woman in space. She spent 328 days, surpassing the previous record of 289 days held by fellow American Peggy Whitson.

IIM-Bengaluru is on rank three in MOOC performance among B-Schools globally

IIM-Bengaluru

Indian Institute of Management Bengaluru (IIMB) ranked third rank in the global list of Top Business Schools after HEC Paris (France) and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA) of 2020.

Alice Mayhew, celebrated book editor, passes away

Alice Mayhew

Alice Mayhew, the celebrated and influential editor of political and historical works whose authors included Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Taylor Branch and Doris Kearns Goodwin, has left us at age of 87.

Former Assam Assembly Speaker Pranab Kumar Gogoi passes away

Pranab Kumar Gogoi

Former Speaker of Assam Legislative Assembly and sitting Congress MLA Pranab Kumar Gogoi is no more with us.