President Ram Nath Kovind will visit and inaugrate the 34th Surajkund International Crafts Mela at Faridabad, Haryana. This year the partner country will be Uzbekistan and Himachal Pradesh is the theme-state.
Union Human Resource Development(HRD) Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ supervised the Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU) meeting which was held in New Delhi .
India and Maldives signed five MoUs for initiating the Addu Tourism zone in five islands of Addu atoll at a cost of 2.49 million dollars.
An ace basketball player, Matthew Satya Babu passed away after prolonged illness. He led the country in the 6th Asian Games in Bangkok in 1970.
The official mascot for the Goa 2020 National Games in Panaji, Goa will be Flame-Throated Bulbul ‘Rubigula’. Goa will be hosting the 36th edition of the National Games from 20th October to 4th November 2020.
Indian women’s football star Ngangom Bala Devi has become the first Indian woman to earn a professional football contract abroad after signing for Scottish giant Rangers FC.
A 14-day Indo-Bangladesh joint military training exercise, Sampriti-IX, will be conducted at Umroi, Ri-Bhoi, Meghalaya from 3rd of February. Command Post Exercise (CPX) and a Field Training Exercise (FTX) will be conducted during joint military exercise.
Telangana has turned up as the best performing state in sustainable economic growth and decent work for all on Sustainable Development Goals India Index 2019, according to United Nations Development Programme.
India has been on the top of TomTom Traffic Index 2019 with 4 cities in top 10 most congested cities globally. The cities of India are Bengaluru(1st), Mumbai(4th), Pune(5th), New Delhi(8th).
Calcutta Nights, a Bengali Novel has been written by Rajat Chaudhuri, an Indian novelist and short story writer which is an English translation of Bengali fiction, ‘Raater Kolkata’ originally written by writer Hemendra Kumar Roy in 1923.