“Our collective wisdom, thought & vision on the goal of Peaceful, Prosperous & Sustainable Bay of Bengal Region is eloquently captured in the 4th BIMSTEC Summit Declaration”, said K P Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal, the Current Chair of the BIMSTEC addressing the closing session of the 4th edition of BIMSTEC summit held in Kathmandu on August 30 & 31, 2018 under the theme: 'Tow...
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Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Awarded to William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018 has been jointly won by two American economists: William D. Nordhaus, “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis” and Paul M. Romer, “for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis”, as announced on October 8, 2018 by the Royal Sw...
Mera School Digital School
Mera School Digital School programme, unique initiative by Union Minister for Rural Development, Mining and Panchayati Raj Narendra Singh Tomar, aimed at turning 100 Government Schools ‘Smart’ in the first phase in Gwalior District of Madhya Pradesh, was launched with 100 Digital Classrooms in 75 Rural Government Schools by Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu on 29 Septem...
Maryse Conde Wins Alternative Nobel Literature Prize
Alternative Nobel Literature Prize, a one-off award intended to fill the void left by the cancellation of prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 after a scandal at the Swedish Academy that awards it, has been won by Maryse Condé one of the Caribbean's most renowned authors, on Friday 12 October 2018. Maryse Condé will win about £87,000 raised from crowd funding and donations...
India & Kazakhstan to Step-up Military Technical Cooperation
India and Kazakhstan have agreed to boost defence and military technical cooperation during the visit of India’s Defence Minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman to Astana, Kazakhstan from October 2 to 4, 2018 at the invitation of the Republic of Kazakhstan’s Minister of Defence of Nurlan Yermekbayev and Minister of Defence and Aerospace Industry Beibut Atamkulov. Th...
Global Warming Report Warns Climate Change Catastrophe
Special report on impacts of global warming at 1.5°C by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), launched after approval at a final plenary of all 195 countries in Incheon in South Korea on Saturday 6 October and released on Monday 8 October 2018, has a warning by world’s leading climate scientists that there is only a dozen years for global ...
Chemistry Nobel for work in Harnessing Evolution
Nobel Chemistry Prize 2018 has been won by Frances H Arnold and George P Smith of the United States and Gregory P Winter of Great Britain, for applying the principles of evolution to develop enzymes used to make everything from biofuels to medicine, as per announcement at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday October 3, 2018 in Stockholm. Arnold...
Binalakshmi & Svetlana Win Anna Politkovskaya Award
Reach All Women in WAR (RAW in WAR) Anna Politkovskaya award 2018, one of the prestigious international award given to women human rights defenders from war and conflict zones, has been conferred jointly to Binalakshmi Nepram, an activist from Manipur in northeast India and Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich, a renowned writer and investigative journalist from Belarus. Remarkably, bot...
ASEM12: Europe & Asia: Global Partners For Global Challenges
12th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM12), under the theme, Global Partners for Global Challenges, hosted by the European Union and chaired by the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk was held on 18-19 October 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting was attended by the Heads of State and Government, or their high-level representatives, of 5...
Anna Burns wins Man Booker Prize for ‘Milkman’
Man Booker Prize 2018: was awarded to Anna Burns, for ‘incredibly original’ “Milkman”, her timely, Troubles-set novel about a young woman being sexually harassed by a powerful man, a work set in a divided society which takes inspiration from the Northern Ireland of her childhood, received on Tuesday 16 October 2018 her trophy from Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, during a black-tie...