Ker Puja is an important festival for the people of Tripura who observe the day to worship Ker, the deity of Vastu Devata.   Details – It falls at the end of Kharchi Puja, which is conducted to worship the fourteen gods who formed the dynasty deity of the Tripuri people. Ker Puja 2022 is… Continue reading Ker Puja

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam at Varanasi.   Details – The Samagam is being organised by the Education Ministry in association with University Grants Commission and Banaras Hindu University. The three-day event will bring together over 300 Vice-Chancellors and Directors from public and private universities, educationists, policymakers, as also… Continue reading Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam

Prolonged disruption of road and rail transport across a major part of Northeast India due to floods and landslips has renewed the demand for fast-tracking projects for connectivity with the rest of the country through Bangladesh.   Details – The Barak Valley in southern Assam and the southern half of Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura are… Continue reading Northeast Infrastructure

Legendary athlete P T Usha and music maestro Ilaiyaraaja were among prominent personalties nominated to Rajya Sabha.   Details – Philanthropist and administrator of the Dharmasthala temple Veerendra Heggade and noted screen writer V Vijayendra Prasad were also nominated to the Upper House of Parliament. The Rajya Sabha had vacancies in the nominated category. Twelve… Continue reading Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha

Visitors to the Sun Temple in Konark, Odisha, will soon be able to see the newly carved stones on the northern side of the jagmohan, or the assembly hall, of the World Heritage Site.   Details – The pilot project started in 2019 with a study of the stones at the temple and an analysis… Continue reading Konark Sun Temple

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced a slew of temporary measures aimed at boosting foreign exchange inflows, including a doubling in the overseas borrowing limit for corporates and removal of interest rate ceilings for NRIs’ foreign currency deposits.   Details – The move comes as persistent capital outflows and a widening trade deficit… Continue reading Boosting FOREX inflows

The government is expecting costs of the tricolour to come down as a result of the change made to the Flag Code of India 2002. The change allows machine-made polyester, other than hand-spun and handwoven khadi, to be used in the production of the national flag. The change to the Flag Code is expected to… Continue reading Har Ghar Tiranga Campaign

The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment — which is investigating the slight differences between matter and antimatter by studying a type of particle called the “beauty quark”, or “b quark” — has observed three never-before-seen particles.   Details – The three “exotic” additions — a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of… Continue reading Quarks

At least 18 people were killed and 243 wounded during the recent government crackdown on protests in Uzbekistan’s autonomous province of Karakalpakstan. The protests had broken out in response to the government’s plan to restrict the region’s long-held autonomy.   About ‘Karakalpakstan’ – The name Karakalpakstan is derived from the Karakalpak people, an ethnic minority… Continue reading Karakalpakstan

Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska, chair of Number Theory at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, was named as one of four recipients of the 2022 Fields Medal, an honour that is often described the Nobel Prize in mathematics.   Details – The other winners were French mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin of the University of… Continue reading Fields Medal